Month: January 2016
Healthcare Is Big Business, No Matter How You Slice It
As patients and consumers, we see hospitals as places whose primary job is to help us get well. Hospitals, however, are still businesses, and for...
The “Hot” Toy Of The Season Keeps Exploding
Hoverboards were everywhere this holiday season, but mostly they resided at the top of Christmas lists around the country. Parents snapped up the toy anywhere...
New Study Finds Chemicals In E-Cigarettes Linked To Lung Disease
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule that would allow the regulation of e-cigarettes. For now, however the products remain unregulated,...
Jimmy Carter Is Cancer Free Thanks To Revolutionary Drug
Every now and then, we find a story that gives us hope – not only for the direction medical science can take us, but for...
Should There Be a Legal Age Limit for Playing Football?
A recent op-ed piece in the New York Times asks the same questions we have been asking: namely, should children – whose brains and bodies...
Medical Malpractice Payouts on the Rise throughout the Country
Deiderich Healthcare is part of a group of companies which offer medical malpractice insurance to healthcare providers throughout the country. For the last four years,...
Forcing Hospital Residents to Work 30+ Hour Shifts Is a Bad Idea
If you watch hospital procedurals on television, you are already familiar with the concept of the bleary-eyed doctor being forced to operate after little to...
Hot Pockets Save Ohio Man (and Other Tall Tales the Media Tell)
Hot Pockets are the irresistibly hot and “delicious” choice of children everywhere and college kids on a budget. Nestlé offers over 20 varieties of the...