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Taxing Junk Food To Curb Obesity

Posted on August 23, 2009
LA Times examines whether taxing junk food, traditionally cheaper than healthier alternatives, will reduce obesity and encourage consumers to purchase more nutritious foods. To make a significant dent in escalating rates of obesity, taxes would have to be steep and...

Health Care: Debating an Effective Public Option

Posted on August 22, 2009
Using San Fransisco as a model, NYT columnists debate a public health care option. TWO burning questions are at the center of America?s health care debate. First, should employers be required to pay for their employees? health insurance? And second,....

D.C. and VA Schools Requesting Sixth Grade Girls Receive HPV Vaccination

Posted on August 22, 2009
Schools in both D.C. and Virginia are requesting sixth grade girls receive Gardasil, the vaccine that was approved by the FDA in 2006 that protects against genital warts and cervical cancer. The vaccine is most effective if it is administered...

Seniors - Driving and Staying informed of Potential Safety Risks?

Posted on August 20, 2009
Many elderly drivers are unaware that prescription drugs may affect their ability to drive safely, reported the Wall Street Journal. In all, 69% of those surveyed took a medicine that could impair driving, because of possible side effects such as...

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Moms in D.C. Apprehensive about Flu Vaccine

Posted on August 20, 2009
Some mothers-to-be in D.C. are concerned that a new swine flu vaccine has not been tested enough to be administered to pregnant women. Debate stems from the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American College....

End of Life Care

Posted on August 18, 2009
When only about one third of Americans leave living wills or specify end of life protocol, physicians and hospitals are left to consider the costs and benefits of end of life care themselves. Some issues that remain include: Should a...

Conflicts of Interest? Doctors and Pharmaceutical Ties

Posted on August 18, 2009
Washington Post discuss a sensitive question many patients find themselves wondering but perhaps not directly asking their doctors - what companies their doctors have relationships with and how deep those ties run. One market research company estimated that pharmaceutical sales...

Good Sam in California

Posted on August 18, 2009
California may be suffering from a terrible financial crisis but Governor Schwartzenner has found time to sign legislation that raises the standard for lawsuits against non-professional medical individuals who aid others in emergency situations. Law.com reports One piece of compromise...

Diane Rehm Health Care Townhall

Posted on August 17, 2009
In case you are interested in a slightly more friendly town hall discussion of health care issues, you may want to tune into the Diane Rehm show today to hear some of your fellow citizens ask questions about some of...

Conference Announcements: LatCrit XIV and LatCrit/SALT New Faculty Workshop

Posted on August 17, 2009
LatCrit XIV promises to be a rich and memorable conference. Over 145 panel and work-in-porogress proposals were submitted. We hope that many of you will be able to join us. Please note that September 14th is the deadline both for...

Public Plan: Cost Containment Rationale

Posted on July 07, 2009
Urban Institute has an article by John Holahan and Linda Blumberg concerning the type of public plan that should be included in health reform legislation: This paper makes the argument that a public plan is important to health reform because...

Food Inc. and New Food Safety Rules

Posted on July 07, 2009
This looks like a great movie, Food, Inc. It makes me think that now would be a good time to start a garden ... Here is the Movie's Director, Robert Kenner, on the Daily Show. In a related matter, the...

Final Stem Cell Guidelines

Posted on July 06, 2009
The Scientific Activist reports on the final stem cell guidelines released by the NIH today and has some interesting commentary: Today, the NIH has released its final guidelines (pdf). Not much has changed, so there's not really much to say...

Timing of Health Reform: Delay?

Posted on July 06, 2009
ThinkProgress and RollCall report on Senator Dodds recent discussion about the timing of a health reform bill. David Drucker of RollCall writes: Senate Democratic leaders? hopes of approving health care reform before adjourning for the August recess appear all but...

AIDS Success in Haiti

Posted on July 05, 2009
Americablog's Chris reports on some good news out of Haiti and writes, What a great report out of Haiti. . . . In the early 1980s, when the strange and terrifying disease showed up in the U.S. among migrants who...

Happy Fourth of July

Posted on July 04, 2009
The Declaration of Independence: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and...

Medical Malpractice Reform as a part of Health Reform

Posted on July 03, 2009
RollCall reports on the push to make medical malpractice reform part of the overall health reform legislation: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee?s markup of health care legislation is just the latest skirmish in what has been a...

Insurance Concentration

Posted on July 03, 2009
Steven Benen of the Washington Monthly reports on the concentration in the insurance industry: Zachary Roth has a very good piece today pointing to a HCAN report documenting the fact that most Americans don't enjoy "anything like a competitive marketplace...

Congressional Budget Office on the Cost of Health Reform - New Numbers

Posted on July 02, 2009
Ezra Klein points out the new budget numbers on the Senate's HELP bill: The big news of the morning is a new version of the Senate HELP Committee's health-care reform bill that seems to have everyone confused. The short version...

FDA Panel Recommends Ban on 2 Painkillers

Posted on July 02, 2009
The New York Times: A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver. The two drugs...

Drug Resistant Swine Flu

Posted on July 01, 2009
The Associated Press reports, For the first time, a case of swine flu has proven resistant to Tamiflu ? the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus, international health officials said Monday. The resistance was seen in a patient in...

Diane Rehm on Primary Care Doctors

Posted on July 01, 2009
Diane Rehm discusses the need for more primary care doctors today: 10:00 Primary Care Doctors The role of primary care doctors in the U.S. health care system and efforts to address what some believe is a crisis in primary care....

Healthy Americans Against Health Reform: New AD

Posted on June 30, 2009
I find these ads quite funny, hope others to do - click here (HARRM.ORG) for their latest. For more health reform humor, check out Tom Tomorrow's latest cartoon here.

The Public Plan: A Discussion

Posted on June 30, 2009
Several scholars discuss and debate the pros and cons of a public plan option at The American Prospect. Here is a brief excerpt: In "The Perils of the Public Plan," Paul Starr warns that a public-insurance option could turn into...

Krugman on Health Reform

Posted on June 29, 2009
Oxdown Gazette has an excellent post discussing Paul Krugman's response to George Will's (Washington Post) and Greg Mankiw's (New York Times) editorials on healthcare. The blogger writes, Fortunately, Paul Krugman had similar concerns, but expressed them more clearly, and after...

Working to Prevent Painkiller Damage

Posted on June 29, 2009
The Associated Press reports on the FDA's renewed focus on painkillers and their damaging side effects. The article provides, Tylenol, Excedrin, NyQuil. These household brands and others have come to symbolize safe, convenient relief from the aches and pains of...

Coverage for Autism

Posted on June 28, 2009
The National Law Journal reports on a settlement in Michigan involving payment for autism treatments by insurance companies. Tresa Baldas writes, In what plaintiffs lawyers are calling a landmark autism case, a Michigan insurance company has agreed to reimburse at...

Fun with Opposing Health Reform

Posted on June 26, 2009
Just for fun - you should check out the new lobbying organization: HAARM - Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine. They have a video here. Enjoy! Thanks to Americablog for the link.

Steve Jobs and Organ Transplants

Posted on June 26, 2009
Recently, it came to light that Steven Jobs, Apple's CEO, received a liver transplant. There exist some concerns for those who worry about corporate disclosure issues and health privacy for CEOs but the transplant also raised again the troubling issue...

Fourth Circuit Upholds Virginia's Partial Birth Abortion Ban

Posted on June 25, 2009
The Washington Post reports on the Fourth Circuit Court's en banc decision to uphold Virginia's partial birth abortion ban. Josh White states, A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled constitutional yesterday a Virginia law banning "partial birth" abortion that was...

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