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Egyptian Organ Donors: Unfortunately It's All About the Money

Posted on March 14, 2008
The LATimes has an eye-opening and rather depressing piece on organ donors in Egypt. Jeffrey Fleishman and Noha El-Hennawy write, He sits quietly at the corner cafe, a gold watch flickering on his wrist. If you need a liver, or...

Diagnosis v. Treatment: Improving Health Care

Posted on March 14, 2008
Slate.com's Darshak Sanghavi has a brief article on a way to improve the quality of health care - have the doctor focus on the patient's treatment rather than on the diagnosis. He writes, . . . . The real trouble...

Health Care Reform in Chart Form

Posted on March 12, 2008
Ezra Klein brings us the easy-to-read chart version of various plans for health care reform to show how difficult or easy it may be to change our system and provide universal coverage. He starts with our current system and then...

1 in 4 Teenage American Girls have STD

Posted on March 12, 2008
Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on sexually transmitted diseases among teenage girls. Monifa Thomas for the Chicago Sun Times reports on study findings, One in 4 teenage girls in the United States has at...

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Academic Perfomance Enhancements -

Posted on March 11, 2008
First, it was those baseball players named in the Mitchell Report - now it could be your law professor or any random college student who uses performance enhancing drugs. This past weekend, the New York Times ran an article on...

What Patients' Want . . . . It's Pretty Costly

Posted on March 11, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog's Theo Francis posts on a potential problem with health reform that was revealed in a recent Mayo Clinic on-line survey. It is an interesting overview of what some Americans would like to see happen...

Pfizer and the New England Journal of Medicine's Peer Review

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Independent (UK) reports today on the decision of Pfizer to sue the New England Journal of Medicine to gain access to the names and comments of its anonymous peer reviewers. Steven Connor writes, A multinational drugs company is trying...

Prescription Drugs in Your Water

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Associated Press reports the results of a recent test of our nation's drinking water and finds that small amounts of a variety of prescription drugs exist in our drinking water supplies. CNN.Com reports, A vast array of pharmaceuticals --...

Prescription Drug Prices

Posted on March 07, 2008
In response to President Bush's weekend radio address concerning the dangers of purchasing drugs on the internet, David Lazarus of the LA Times writes about the reason people often turn to the internet to purchase drugs - the cost of...

More on Autism/Vaccine Case

Posted on March 07, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog provides some background on the recent case involving the girl who received childhood vaccines and developed autism-like symptoms. Jacob Goldstein writes, The father of a girl who developed autism-like symptoms after receiving several vaccinations...

Autism and Childhood Vaccine Case

Posted on March 06, 2008
Law.com picks up an Associated Press account of an interesting case involving a girl for whom mandatory childhood vaccines worsened a genetic condition she had which led to 'autism-like symptoms." Marilynn Marchione of the Associated Press writes, Government health officials...

House Passes Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act

Posted on March 06, 2008
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act. The gavel describes the Act as follows: The House has just passed H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act by a...

Genetic Testing and Genetic Discrimination

Posted on March 05, 2008
A contributor to mydisabilityblog posts about recent announcements of new blood tests that reveal that an an individual has a mental illness. The contributor finds some excitement in the news but also much worry: Recently, I read an article about...

Jonathan Cohn on McCain's Health Care Plan

Posted on March 05, 2008
Well, since John McCain has the Republican Presidential nomination, it seems like a good time to look at this health care plan. At least one commentator is not too excited. Jonathan Cohn, the New Republic's health care writer, states, So...

Increase Regulation of Drug Companies?

Posted on March 05, 2008
Ezra Klein notes that the latest Kaiser Family Foundation survey on attitudes towards pharmaceutical companies demonstrates that Americans would like greater government regulation of pharmaceutical companies. Americans express this desire even though there could be a negative impact on innovation...

Oregon's Financial Woes and Health Care Access

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on the sad state of affairs concerning health care access. It points to a recent Oregon decision to ration health care by lottery. The Associated Press report describes the lottery in more detail....

Critique of Health Care Mandates

Posted on March 03, 2008
The Health Care Blog has an interesting post entitled, "What?s wrong with individual health insurance mandates," by Claudia Chaufan. She supports a single payer program and worries that a mandate-approach ignores the financial realities of our current insurance system...

My Father's Heart: Diane Rehn Show Today

Posted on March 03, 2008
cnThe Diane Rehm show has Steve McKee, editor for the Wall Street Journal, discussing his book, "My Father's Heart." The blurb for the show states, After watching his father die from a massive heart attack when he was only fifty-five,...

Accuracy of Gender Test Kits and the Ethics of Sex Selection

Posted on February 29, 2008
This past weekend, the LA Times ran an article discussing at-home gender test kits and their high error rate. Karen Kaplan reports, Amid the tumult of the delivery room, Rohit and Geeta Jain were calm about one thing: Their new...

The Return of Managed Care

Posted on February 29, 2008
On Wednesday, the Boston Globe ran an editorial by two physicians arguing that the State of Massachusetts, facing a budget deficit in its subsidy for universal health insurance, needs to revisit managed care. Drs. Joseph L. Dorsey and Donald M....

Consequences of Failure to Vaccinate

Posted on February 28, 2008
Well, what do you know - if you don't vaccinate children, they get sick and sometimes they die. Firedoglake's Phoenix Woman provides an update on the increasing number of children suffering from preventable childhood diseases as a result of a...

Organ Transplants, Doctors and Criminal Prosecutions

Posted on February 27, 2008
The New York Times reports on a surgeon accused of speeding up an individual's death to procure his organs. On a winter night in 2006, a disabled and brain damaged man named Ruben Navarro was wheeled into an operating room...

Update on Anti-Depressants

Posted on February 27, 2008
The Huffington Post has several articles on why the press is getting it wrong about the results of the PLOS study discussing placebos and anti-depressants. One author, Gary Marcus writes about the terrible media coverage (oops!) and states, Dashing by...

Just for Fun - Be Your Own Jackson Pollack

Posted on February 26, 2008
You may already be aware of this nifty website but if not, you should pay a visit to JacksonPollack.org and then start moving and clicking your mouse - viola - you end up with a lovely painting in the Jackson...

Prozac Doesn't Work . . . .

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Guardian UK today reports on studies demonstrating that Prozac doesn't work, or put another way, it works just as well as a placebo. --- writing for the Guardian reports, Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide,...

Nine Million Dollars!

Posted on February 25, 2008
Last week, the L.A. Times reported on an arbitration victory for a women in California against her health insurance company which had cut off her coverage in the middle of her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. The cancellation appears to...

National Women's Law Center: Women and Health Reform

Posted on February 25, 2008
National Women's Law Center has been blogging on women and health reform and posts weekly on a topic in this series. This week's topic concerns primary care physicians and provides some helpful background on why primary care is so important....

No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act

Posted on February 22, 2008
Today, DemFromCt writing at Daily Kos notes that Representative Kagan (D-WI) has introduced new legislation to end discrimination in health care coverage. The author states, Now, Rep. Kagen has introduced something else to the discussion: legislation that alters the "pre-existing...

Supreme Court Medical Device Manufacturers

Posted on February 21, 2008
The New York Times reports on the Supreme Court's decision in in which the Justices ruled "that the manufacturer of a federally approved medical device cannot be sued under state law if the device causes an injury." The TImes ---...

Health Clinics: Not Yet Super Popular

Posted on February 20, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reports on the use of retail health clinics. It states, The public?s still pretty wary of the retail clinics cropping up in Wal-Marts and drugstores around the country. But there are enough people comfortable...

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