iGuard has signed up their one millionth customer and bringing their story to light. The site is pretty ingenious, fill in the prescription medication you take and any adverse reactions with them known now or in the future will be emailed to you. Thinking of folks that have multiple doctors prescribing all kinds of things, many are choosing not to leave their drug reactions up to fate. The site allows patients to feel like they have some kind of control over some knowledge.

The massive Chinese search engine Baidu is in trouble after state media uncovered that unlicensed medical services are buying good positions on the page through their P4P (pay-for-performance) scheme. This is a problem as more people then click through to their website and the pay for very expensive and totally useless treatment.

This inevitably leads to more cases of dangerous, and sometimes lethal, disregard of safety and expertise meaning that many operations are useless, expensive, and health-threatening. Examples include a man being charged $1,500 for an operations that didn’t do anything, when he could have paid $15 for effective treatment at a public hospital.