October 2011
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Digital Medical Records
When patients see new doctors, they often spend a chunk of the appointment explaining their ailments and medical history is. They may even have bloodwork done, even if they had it done recently at a different doctor’s office. If the system was digitized and all the information was in one convenient place, doctors visits would be quicker and less redundant. That “convenient place” is the cloud....
Oct 28th
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FIRST - Multi-institutional Stem Cell Research...
The La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has become the fifth organization in the prestigious Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, joining colleagues from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, University of California, San Diego and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in the first-of-its-kind multi-institutional stem cell research...
Oct 27th
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TEDMED Conference going on NOW in San Diego
The highly anticipated TEDMED Conference is going on now in San Diego.   http://www.tedmed.com/ If you are familiar with TED, consider this event the Medical track of TED.  
Oct 27th
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Brand Name drug patents set to expire
Patents on some brand name drugs are set to expire.
Oct 11th
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Steve Jobs. You will be missed. Cancer took you...
Steve - thank you for changing the world.  Your innovations will be missed.  Cancer took you away from us way too soon.  Your products have changed the way we look at the world and pushed us to make changes to the world one step at a time.    Email rememberingsteve@apple.com if you want to leave a note for Apple.   www.apple.com
Oct 6th
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President on the passing of Steve Jobs
President mentions the change Steve Job brought to the world: Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified...
Oct 6th
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