New York Bills to Promote Advance Directives
Taking a lead from recent legislation aimed at increasing organ donation rates by using people’s contact with the DMV, several new New York bills aim at increasing advance directive completion rates in the same way.  One New York bill (SB 2350) would require the DMV to include health proxy forms with driver and vehicle registration [...]
I’d been hearing that the health care bill doesn’t address tort reform
—but now I know this. Not only does it not address it, it discourages it. Tort reform is dead unless we get some help in November.
Special issue: Focusing on the learner: the paradigm shift in TEL
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning 2(1/2) 2010 Papers from the 3rd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2008) held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-19 September 2008. A storytelling model for educational games: Hero’s interactive journey Learning by gaming: facts and myths Capture of lifecycle information in office applications Using personas for designing knowledge [...]
Is the KIF6 statin test debunked?
KIF6 codes for a kinesin, which transports cargo along intracellular microtubules. A recent paper and accompanying editorial in JACC are sure to spark controversy. The paper was an analysis of 19 case-control studies, looking at the association of the KIF6 polymorphism with CAD risk. The findings: Results: A total of 17,000 cases and 39,369 controls [...]
Guidelines for IVC filters differ
Hospitalist News reports on a poster presentation: The current, published guidelines of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) lack agreement on the indications for placement of inferior vena cava filters during routine practice. And the implications of the contradictory guidelines are growing because use of inferior vena [...]
