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Consumer Reports: Medical devices are rarely tested

Consumer Reports notes that medical devices are rarely tested to determine whether they’re safe. Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project is gathering stories from patients who’ve had a problem with an implant or a medical device. The Project is...

#firstMRI is a project! Tweetchat tonight

Update 3/23: here’s the transcript of the event. Remember December’s post about the #firstMRI idea, to help poor unsuspecting patients prepare for the “monkeys banging on garbage cans” experience? It’s a project now! Join us for...

Mama birds: Catherine Fairchild Calhoun and Laurie Strongin

On February 29, 2012, Rare Disease Day, I hosted a conversation with Catherine Fairchild Calhoun and Laurie Strongin, two people who have inspired me in my research about the social impact of the internet on health. They have also inspired me personally, finding joy...

CostsOfCare.org

We often hear lately that physicians don’t KNOW what things cost, and are thus disempowered from helping patients control costs. This item arrived today from The Medical Professionalism Blog, the blog of the ABIMF, the American Board of Internal Medicine...

Patients: Your Researcher Will See You Now!

Guest blogger Susan Woods, a physician and SPM board member, urges patients to help shape PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and initial Research Agenda, and offers her own comments here. The public comment period ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 15....

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