William Maisel, MD: discusses the Medical Device Safety Institute
The medical device industry has been replete with safety recalls and scandals at the CDRH device section of the FDA. Cardiologists have had to deal with most of the highest profile problems ranging...
View ArticleUse medical device technology to seal the Gulf oil leak
Op-Ed The Healthcare Channel May 16, 2010 It is now painfully obvious that the team of “expert engineers” working on ad hoc solutions to seal the oil-spewing pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico...
View ArticleDavid Kallmes, MD: Kyphoplasty versus vertebroplasty
Dr. David Kallmes, professor of radiology at the Mayo Clinic, discusses the differences between balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8pdPaCC72E
View ArticleCurrent guidelines and methods for treating knee and head injuries in NCAA...
September 14, 2010 Lee Kaplan, MD, Chief of Sports Medicine at The University of Miami Health System and team doctor for the Miami Hurricanes football team discusses the state-of-the-art methods for...
View ArticleIs the healthcare industry a bubble slowly deflating?
December 3, 2011 Steven Greer, MD- The Healthcare Channel Two weeks ago, we issued the story, below, about possible layoffs and cuts in the healthcare industry due to a “Healthcare Bubble”. At the...
View ArticleDavid Kallmes, MD: Is vertebroplasty futile?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-N1NXk84I Two important government-funded clinical trials on vertobroplasty were published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. Both trials showed that the...
View ArticleThe Yale led reanalysis of the BMP-2 InFuse trials
Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Medtronic granted rare access to a team led my Yale’s Harlan Krumholz and turned over the complete datasets on 17 InFuse (BMP-2) clinical trials. The goal was to...
View ArticleBack surgery and stents targeted by the AMA as often unnecessary
June 2, 2009 Last month, representatives from the private sector of healthcare presented a letter to The White House promising to voluntarily reduce the growth of healthcare cost inflation, but the...
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