Cancer is expensive. I finished out the school year. When i was hospitalized I had my computer with me and worked all day. My nurses were amazed that I kept working as well as how I was able to send voice messages to my students all day long. I worked ten hour days many days. I...
Drug discovery has traditionally been a slow, expensive process, often taking over a decade and billions of dollars to bring a new medicine to market. Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug for cancer, took over 11 years to develop—research began in 2003, and it was finally approved by the FDA in...
occurs when the heart pumps less blood than the body normally needs. For years doctors have relied heavily on an imaging technique called an echocardiogram to assess whether a patient may be experiencing heart failure. While helpful, echocardiograms can be labor-intensive procedures that are only o...
this is a time-consuming and expensive test, which is why it comes late in the process. A good polygraph examination will include an extensive review of the recruit’s application materials and background investigation results, a thorough interview with the applicant, formulation of control and re...
“I suspect that, like many things in medicine, there was originally a reason for charging facility fees. It was more expensive to see patients in certain situations. But in medicine as in other things in life, when you roll off into the trenches, the charlatans start taking a...