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Osama Bin Laden’s health: One of the enduring questions about Osama Bin Laden over the years revolved around his health: How could he survive in hiding while needing access to complex medical technology for dialysis, a filtering of the blood necessitated by kidney failure? NBC News now has the answer — Bin Laden never needed dialysis and didn’t have kidney failure, despite earlier claims by Pakistan’s ex-president. He had low blood pressure and an enlarged heart.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
It’s great to be late: Venture capital firms investing in late-stage companies enjoyed average returns of more than 35 percent in 2010, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
The month in biotech stocks: April was a very kind month to shareholders of Amarin Pharmaceutical, which saw its shares appreciate 115 percent in the month. Shareholders of K-V Pharmaceutical are less pleased.
America’s greatest national security threat: It wasn’t Osama Bin Laden, it’s Medicare, says a conservative physician-blogger. Please join me in greeting this revelation with a collective, “Huh?”