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There’s a new name for creating a permanent channel of TV-like broacasting that runs entirely on the internet: slivercasting.

I’ve been talking about ways of coping with health care costs. Here’s another twist: telemedicine. …a growing number of people monitoring their vital signs through "telemedicine," which allows health care providers to perform checkups by video. The technology can be as basic as the kiosks Wilson uses, which transmit blood pressure and weight readings to a remote facility monitored by ...

Funny how things coincide. I mentioned in my post on the BioAgenda Summit that drug prices were a big topic of discussion. One idea for bringing costs down was giving consumers more information about drugs so they can make decisions about the relative merits of drugs and their costs. Then this morning in my local paper there was an article ...

Mike Mitchel and I are attending one of the most interesting conferences about life science in the country. It’s the BioAgenda Summit near Palm Springs. It covers a wide range of issues about where life science is going–or is "taking us"–and about the industry of biotechnology. There are amazing people here. Well, to get ready for the conference we had–groan!–homework. ...