From David Willman at the LA Times: WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about its effectiveness and multibillion-dollar cost, the Department of Homeland Security has canceled plans to install an automated technology that was meant to speed the 24-hour operations of BioWatch, the national system for detecting a biological attack. The cancellation of the “Generation 3” acquisition was made…

What is the tag line?  Don’t be poor in America.  Healthcare is simply too expensive for a sizable number of Americans to afford, so they go without.  And this is the result.  True, there are more high-risk pregnancies in the US than there used to be, but that is equally true for other developed countries….

The Electronic Medical Record has a new application: to sell more vaccines. The following article comes verbatim from FierceVaccines, while a link to Forbes tells the same story, although its slant emphasizes improvements in health outcomes, rather than Merck profits. Merck has partnered with a cloud-based electronics medical record company to gain information on patients who…