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Fewer than 15 percent of healthcare workers comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations for removing personal protective equipment ,… Correct removal is crucial to reduce contamination...

Dong-Pyou Han,…. sentenced to 57 months in prison for vaccine trial fraud,.. falsified data.. mixed human HIV antibodies with rabbit blood.. to falsely show…. immunity to HIV… two counts of making false statements in order to obtain NIH research grants…. fined $7.2 million on top of his prison sentence…

"Uber for healthcare" startup has an advantage....cofounder Oscar Salazar, as Uber’s founding CTO,....Pager tries to take the process further by making your appointment instant and for a flat fee...urgent care visit is $50,...physical is $100 and a phone consultation $25...is focused on delivering a broader range of care options on demand"...

Patients may expect cleaner than clean conditions in a hospital..In one of four hospitals across the country hand washing – the best-known way to prevent hospital infections – is apparently not a priority. "It puts patients, clinicians, and all health care workers at risk when hand washing is not a priority. Hospital-acquired infections kill about 10 percent of those afflicted…”

"It worries me giving the pigs so many veterinary drugs to prevent them from getting ill," ..New research...shows China consumed 162,000 tons of antibiotics in 2013, or more than half of the global total. About 52 percent was used on livestock and 48 percent by humans. More than 50,000 tons ended up in the water and soil.

Pharmacy majors receive the second-highest median earnings among bachelor’s degree holders. Petroleum engineering was named the highest-earning major, with an average annual wage of $135,754. Pharmacy majors notched the next slot, at $113,000.

Researchers from Canada, Europe and the United States are calling on major funding agencies to set up a global genomic data repository in the cloud...available ...worldwide...offer massive storage and compute power...applaud...National Institutes of Health's decision...to lift its restriction on the use of cloud computing for storing genomic data sets.

researchers have successfully turned unhealthy patients' cells into healthy, mutation-free stem cells...focused on finding cures for mitochondrial diseases..should now be able to generate heart, brain, muscle or eye cells from mutation-free stem cells....

..biopharmaceutical research companies are currently developing 420 medicines for patients suffering from neurological disorders, including epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease...PhRMA and the Epilepsy Foundation...released a new report...

Hospitals are increasingly adopting technologies aimed at reducing medication and other errors, but they continue to struggle with variation in the quality of care provided to patients and in adoption of safe practices...