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Plastic Bottles/BPA Update

Posted on April 20, 2008
The New York Times updates the recent concern Congress and the Canadian government have shown over the use of BPA (bisphenol-A) in many plastic children's items - including baby bottles and other products that children put in their mouths. Ian...

Children's Health Care Update - Some Good News

Posted on April 20, 2008
The New York Times reports that the Bush Administration has suffered a setback in its attempt to restrict the States ability to expand the availability of SCHIP funds to middle-income families. President Bush had issued an August 17th Directive placing...

African American Bone Marrow Donors Needed

Posted on April 18, 2008
Wolfrum at Shakespeare's Sister posts a call for more more bone marrow donors, particularly African American donors. He writes, When I recovered from the shock of learning that my Mom had acute myeloid Leukemia, I set to work on learning...

Wyden's Health Care Plan Video

Posted on April 18, 2008
Ezra Klein points out the surprisingly good health care video produced in support of Senator Ron Wyden's health care plan, known as the Wyden Bennett plan or Healthy Americans Act. The Act proposes to de-link health insurance from employment. The...

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Vioxx Deaths, Merck's Data and Ghostwriters

Posted on April 17, 2008
Guardian reports on the bad data provided by Merck and the New York Times follows up with a review of yesterday's Journal of the American Medical Association piece discussing ghostwriters for medical articles on Merck data and analysis. Sarah Boseley...

Plastic Baby Bottles, BPA and the FDA

Posted on April 17, 2008
Reuters reports on the National Toxicology Program's findings of the potential danger posed to young children from the chemical bisphensol A, a chemical used in such items as baby bottles and also recently approved by the FDA as safe in...

Antioxidant Supplements May Be Harmful to Health

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Guardian (UK) reports today on a review by the Cochrane Collaboration which demonstrates that in many cases taking vitamin supplements, specifically antioxidants, in the hopes of extending life is not only a waste of money but can actually be...

Banning the Internet From Law School Classrooms

Posted on April 16, 2008
The National Law Journal online reports on the recent decision by the University of Chicago Law School Dean to block classroom access to the internet. Lynne Marek states, Saul Levmore, who is dean of the school, said he had been...

Calling Health Law Scholars

Posted on April 15, 2008
Now that classes are soon to be over, time to consider scholarship - St. Louis University School of Law Center for Health Law Studies announces is call for papers for its 2008 Health Law Scholars Workshop. Call for Papers Timeline:...

Global Medical Tourism

Posted on April 15, 2008
Yesterday's NPR program Day-to-Day had an interesting program concerning global medical tourism and how many Americans were going overseas, the program focuses on Israel, to gain access to medical care at a much lesser cost. Here is link to the...

Human Research - The Importance of Consent

Posted on April 15, 2008
The Boston Globe reports on a recent (and rather shocking) incident in low-income, minority neighborhoods in Baltimore concerning the use of human and industrial waste on yards to reduce potential lead poisoning without knowlege of the participants. Globe reporter John...

Free Will?

Posted on April 14, 2008
The journal Nature Neuroscience latest edition focuses on the Nature of Decision-Making. The studies are quite interesting and do raise many questions about how our brain works. Here is the brief overview of the journal's articles, The ability to make...

Abortion Records in Kansas

Posted on April 14, 2008
Phil Kline, the Johnson County District Attorney, who has been filing criminal cases against Planned Parenthood, has requested and thus far been denied medical records from the various clinics. The Kansas City Star reports here and here on how his...

Drug Companies and their New Disclosures

Posted on April 13, 2008
The Associated Press reports on some new disclosures by pharmaceutical companies concerning gifts and payments made to physicians. Kevin Freking writes, For years, the nation's largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to...

Asian American Health

Posted on April 11, 2008
The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum have released a study entitled, Health Coverage and Access to Care Among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders." The study shows health insurance coverage for these individuals...

Unbelievable Health Care Stories

Posted on April 11, 2008
Paul Krugman in today's New York Times reports on the health care story that recently made the news, not because it is so tragic, but because Senator Clinton got some facts about the story incorrect. I have to agree with...

Increase in Child Hospitalization Mistakes

Posted on April 10, 2008
The April edition of the journal Pediatrics reports some distressing news - one in fifteen hospitalized children may experience medical harm resulting from medicine mix-ups, overdoses, and bad drug reactions. The purpose of the study, "Development, Testing, and Findings of...

Medical Records Privacy - Not so Private for Celebrities in California

Posted on April 10, 2008
I am hoping that people who work in the health field (or people who wear white coats in attempt to resemble a medical professional) in LA are perhaps a little nosier than the rest of the health care workers in...

Plastic Surgeons See Hard Times - Is that Bad?

Posted on April 09, 2008
Apparently the recession has hit plastic surgeons particularly hard. Slate.com's William Saletan reports, If your local real estate agent's face is hanging low these days, it might be more than sadness. The recession's latest victim is cosmetic surgery...

End of Life Costs: Outcomes v. Spending

Posted on April 09, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has a great chart reflecting the data presented by the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care on health care spending in the United States. The Dartmouth Atlas reviews money spent on Medicare patients across the...

Ranking Law Schools By Student Quality

Posted on April 08, 2008
Brian Leiter has issued a ranking of law schools based on student quality (calculated by LSAT/GPA percentages with some other factors such as class size taken into account). He provides a discussion of how the rankings were calculated as well...

Medicare Future Solvency and Access to Care

Posted on April 08, 2008
AmNews reports on some new numbers for Medicare and its future - it doesn't sound too rosy: Medicare is facing a long-term financial meltdown, but health policy experts said Congress is not likely in this election year to take the...

Schools Focus On Obesity and Show Positive Results

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Associated Press reports on a successful strategy employed by the Philadelphia School District to reduce childhood obesity. Stephanie Nano of the AP describes the successful plan, Five Philadelphia elementary schools replaced sodas with fruit juice...

Abortion Search on Popline Unblocked . . . .

Posted on April 07, 2008
The New York Times on Saturday reported on the controversy surrounding the government's decision to designate abortion as an "ignored" term when searching the database, Popline. The decision was reversed by Johns Hopkins University. Robert Pear of the Times reports,...

Pre-emption

Posted on April 06, 2008
The New York Times has an article today about drug companies and their hopes for complete pre-emption for all tort suits once a drug receives FDA approval. The example provided, however, seems to indicate that the goal of safe drugs...

Michael Kinsley on Longevity

Posted on April 04, 2008
The New Yorker has a piece this week by Michael Kinsley on living a long life. He tells movingly about his struggle with Parkinson's Disease and the desire by many for a longer life. He writes, . . . ....

Non-Profit Hospitals: Making Big Money

Posted on April 04, 2008
Today the Wall Street Journal has an article discussing the money made by non-profit hospitals and how it is being spent. There?s big money in health care, even for institutions that aren?t chartered to make a profit. The combined net...

Abstinence-Only Education Not Working in Florida

Posted on April 03, 2008
I hope that this survey is perhaps a late April Fool's joke, if not, we have some teens who are in lots of trouble. Here is the story from Local 6 News in Orlando, Florida: A recent survey that found...

High Cost of Prescription Drugs

Posted on April 03, 2008
USAToday has an article concerning the rapidly rising costs of prescription drugs. Julie Appleby reports, People with health insurance are having more trouble paying for prescription drugs as higher out-of-pocket costs for medications and a slowing economy strain family budgets,...

Elizabeth Edwards Examines John McCain's Health Plan

Posted on April 02, 2008
Elizabeth Edwards has been reviewing Presidential-candidate John McCain's health plan (you can see it here) and she isn't too happy about what she finds in it. She also wonders whether John McCain would be covered under his own plan? She...

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