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3 days ago
TRUTH IN MEDICINE - SYNTHETIC SURGICAL MESH - PART 1
Truth in Medicine
Surgeries that implant Synthetic Surgical Mesh Have Significant Risks and Complications!
Are you suffering complications of syn...
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1 week ago
Nancy Duarte talks at TEDx East
TED talk, TEDx East, Nancy Duarte, Presentation, Resonate, Slide:ology, slideology, duarte design
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2 weeks ago
The future of hospital gowns-Privacy Preferred Gown
Hospital gown that covers your butt! modest gown.
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2 weeks ago
Congressswoman Gwen Moore talks with Joy Behar (CNN) about Planned Parenthood
Congressswoman Gwen Moore talks with Joy Behar (CNN) about Planned Parenthood
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1 month ago
Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans
In which Hank walks around the French Quarter and discusses the freaking sweet internet blackout that resulted in a great number of congresspeople ...
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1 month ago
The Truth About Budget Cuts
Ron Pollack shares what's at stake for health care in the 2012 budget fights.
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The #1 expenditure of Medicare is joint replacement. The Institute of Medicine 7/29/11 reported that the method the FDA uses to clear implanted medical devices is flawed. Patients with failed implanted medical devices are in medical and legal purgatory. Congress must change this by changing th...
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2 months ago
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Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen
Woody Guthrie
This appears to be the "fountain pen" of marketing. ( . . .Still, marketing.)
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2 months ago
FDA Medical Device Approval: Is There a Better Way? (Part 2 of 2)
FDA Medical Device Approval: Is There a Better Way? - House Oversight Committee - 2011-06-02 - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. ...
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To the patient-two choices #1 510(k) approved implanted device with no clinical study and some access to justice if the device fails or #2 PMA approval requiring clinical study but blocks access to state court if the implanted device fails. This stinks! The medical device industry business mod...
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
FDA Medical Device Approval: Is There a Better Way? (Part 1 of 2)
FDA Medical Device Approval: Is There a Better Way? - House Oversight Committee - 2011-06-02 - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. ...
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Joint replacements are the #1 expenditure of Medicare yet most are cleared through the flawed 510(k) process (IOM report 7/29/11) that does not require clinical testing. When these "innovations" fail, the patient is the only truly accountable entity. Federal public policy must change. Congress...
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
Erik's Correspondence Corner: Transportation & Energy Regulation
In this week's installment of "Erik's Correspondence Corner" video series, Representative Erik Paulsen (MN-03) directly responds to questions on ...
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Why do I feel like I just wasted my time watching a commercial?
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3 months ago
Senate HELP hearing November 15, 2011
On 7/29/11 the Institute of Medicine concluded a 22 month study (commissioned by HHS Health and Human Services) stating that the 510(k) process of ...
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4 months ago
Quecksilber the strange story of dental amalgam
amalgam is the single greatest dietary source of mercury. Only arsenic and lead are more toxic. the dental profession is lying about the safety o...
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4 months ago
President's Lecture Series 2009-10: Dr. Marcia Angell
Americans spend more than $200 billion a year on prescription drugs. What are they getting for their money? Dr. Marcia Angell, senior lecturer of H...
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4 months ago
Mining California Hospital Data for Great Stories
Does your local hospital place more cardiac stents than others? Do more of its patients leave the emergency room without being seen? Does it have a...
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5 months ago
Joint Replacement: Medical and Legal Purgatory
On 7/29/11 the Institute of Medicine concluded a 22 month study (commissioned by HHS Health and Human Services) stating that the 510(k) process of ...
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5 months ago
Susannah Fox on Why Medicine 2.0
Associate Director of the Pew Internet & American Life project, Ms. Susannah Fox, discusses Medicine 2.0. Ms. Fox is a keynote speaker for the Medi...
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5 months ago
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Please discuss implanted medical devices-the Institute of Medicine on 7/29/11 reported that the FDA must change how it clears these for market. The FDA Charter from 1976 does not allow consumer or patient representatives to vote, yet devices are cleared with no clinical trials or post-market reg...
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5 months ago
NPA Broken Covenant
Documents the NPA's position on the state of health care in America today.
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I am a patient advocate for safer implanted medical devices. I am asking that the Charter of the FDA be changed to reflect the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine report 7/29/11. September 15 there is a public meeting at FDA in DC and September 22, 2011 in San Francisco. Please partic...
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6 months ago
Young Joint Replacement Means Redo Surgery.
http://www.arthritistreatme... Young Joint Replacement Means Redo Surgery.
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Joleen Chambers-Failed Implanted Medical Devices- will deliver a petition to the FDA /Congress/President Obama on September 22, 2011. The FDA charter must be updated from 1976 to enhance patient safety/participation as equal stakeholder and increase medical device manufacturers' accountability f...