Blog Detail
Pulse on Health
http://postbulletin.typepad.com/pulse_on_heal…
Southeast Minnesota health, medicine, research and the goings-on at Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Medical Center, public health and the Rochester Epidemiology Project.
- Added on: Jan 13th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jeff Hansel
- Listed in: Health Science
- Tags: minnesota ibm epidemiology mayo clinic olmsted hormel
Recent Posts
More than half of U.S. adults don\'t want H1N1 vaccinations
Here's the danger of repeatedly telling U.S. residents that they must get vaccinated against pandemic influenza — and then not being able to provide enough vaccine to give it to them when they want it. More than half of American adults don&#...
Ages 13 to 64 should get HIV tested
The National Institutes of Health says if you're age 13 to 64 you should get tested for HIV/AIDS. I confess I hadn't seen this previously as a standard recommendation similar to prostate cancer testing or mammography. But it makes sense...
Arizona newspaper publishes Mayo Clinic Medicare letter
The Arizona Republic has published the full text of a letter from Mayo Clinic in Arizona to its patients. The letter tells patients that family-practice physicians at one Mayo site will no longer accept Medicare. "The discrepancy between wha...
2/3 of people with diabetes miss "critically important exams"
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says 2/3 of people with diabetes "miss some or all critically important exams."Only a third of the 16.5 million Americans who reported that they had diabetes had all three exams done that are c...
Burrill speaks in Golden Valley about Elk Run
G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, took a few minutes to speak with me today (Friday November 20, 2009), despite about 100 Minnesota biotech entrepreneurs who each probably would have loved the same opportunity (and many got it). [S...
NIH studies prevention effectiveness of HIV counseling for those who test negative
The National Institutes of Health is studying whether counseling in addition to rapid HIV testing results in better patient outcomes for those who test negative than rapid HIV testing alone. A $12.3 million grant from the American Reinvestment and ...
