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Flu Trends

Posted on February 20, 2009
Here is a link to the Google's Flu Trends website that allows you to track the flu in your state. Thanks to DemfromCt for the update on flu season.

Suing Medical Device Manufacturers . . . .

Posted on February 20, 2009
Last year, in Riegel v. Medtronic, the United States Supreme Court barred patients from suing in tort makers of medical devices if the Food and Drug Administration had approved them. Now several lawmakers consider legislation to overturn that ruling. The...

Kansas Governor Top Pick For HHS

Posted on February 19, 2009
The New York Times reports today that Governor Kathleen Seblius is President Obama's top pick for Secretary of HHS. Peter Baker and Robert Pear write, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, an early Obama ally with a record of working across...

Human Rights for Fertilized Eggs

Posted on February 19, 2009
The Associated Press reports on the North Dakota House's new law providing human rights for fertilized eggs. The story states, A measure approved by the North Dakota House gives a fertilized human egg the legal rights of a human being,...

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Howard Dean Speaks on Comparative Effectiveness Research

Posted on February 18, 2009
The Huffingtonpost runs a brief editorial by Howard Dean (whose name has been mentioned as a potential HHS Secretary) concerning comparative effectiveness research and its opponents. He writes, Opponents of fixing our broken health care system are at it again,...

Number of Uninsured Rising By 14,000 per day . . .

Posted on February 18, 2009
Thinkprogress reports on the increasing number of uninsured as more and more people lose their jobs - in fact, 14,000 each day. The story states, Since spring 2007, 3.5 million Americans have lost their health benefits and are now uninsured....

Medicare Privacy Ruling

Posted on February 17, 2009
AmNews reports on the D.C. Circuit's ruling that HHS is not required to turn over Medicare claims data to a consumer group wishing to use the data to provide patients with selected physician information. The case is: Consumers' Checkbook/Center for...

Food Policy and Health Policy

Posted on February 17, 2009
Ezra Klein has some interesting thoughts on our current food policies. He writes, To put some of the recent conversations over chronic disease and diet into economic perspective, consider the hackneyed statistic that we spend more on health care than...

Medical Marijuana and the California DMV

Posted on February 16, 2009
The LA Times reports on a lawsuit filed by citizens of California prescribed marijuana for medical purposes against their state's Department of Motor Vehicles for targeting them. When Matt Vaughn was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 5 in Northern...

Comparing Medical Treatments

Posted on February 16, 2009
The New York Times highlights a provision of the stimulus bill that will provide funding for comparing the effectiveness of different medical treatments for the same health problem. Under the legislation, researchers will receive $1.1 billion to compare drugs, medical...

Executive Order on Stem Cells Soon

Posted on February 15, 2009
The Huffingtonpost reports on David Axelrod's recent announcement concerning an executive order on stem cell research. The article provides, Expect an executive order soon from President Barack Obama on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research...

Looking for a Date on Valentine's Day

Posted on February 14, 2009
Well, here is a helpful new website for those searching for a good match and so appropriate since we just Darwin's Birthday and Valentine's Day are so close -- GenePartner. DailyBeast tells us about this new dating site and states,...

Designer Babies

Posted on February 13, 2009
You would think that after the recent rather negative publicity over the birth of octuplets that fertility clinics would be revisiting some of their policies and reconsidering some of their practices. Perhaps they are but this brief article in the...

Cure for Common Cold

Posted on February 13, 2009
The New York Times reports on a breakthrough in the search for the cure for the common cold - results from the genomes of the various cold viruses. The story states, Curing the common cold, one of medicine?s most elusive...

New Medicaid Patients

Posted on February 12, 2009
Last nigiht the NewsHour had a sad story about the increasing number of people qualifying for Medicaid and another story on the high cost of COBRA. Both are worth of a listen as we learn about the increasing number of...

No Vaccine/Autism Link

Posted on February 12, 2009
The New York Times reports on the recent federal rulings on the lack of a link between childhood vaccines and autism. Donald McNeil writes, In a blow to the movement arguing that vaccines trigger autism, three Federal judges ruled Thursday...

Anthem Blue Cross Settles Over Dropped Patients

Posted on February 11, 2009
The LA Times reports on the recent settlement reached between Anthem Blue Cross and the California Department of Insurance. Lisa Girion writes, Anthem Blue Cross, the state's largest for-profit health insurer, has agreed to pay a $1-million fine and offer...

Food Safety Hearings on C-Span

Posted on February 11, 2009
Well, it probably isn't the most exciting television but it could be extremely important. Today at 10am, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has a hearing scheduled to discuss the "Salmonella Outbreak: The Continued...

The Passing of Ms. Englaro

Posted on February 10, 2009
Ms. Englaro passed away today, three days after doctors at a private clinic reduced her nutrition intake. The New York Times reports, The woman at the center of a right-to-die battle gripping Italy died Monday in a private clinic, ending...

Meet the New Farma . . .

Posted on February 10, 2009
The New York Times reports on the FDA's approval of a new drug made from a Opening the barn door to a new era in farming and pharmaceuticals, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug produced...

Italy's Divided Response to Eluana Englaro

Posted on February 09, 2009
Reuters has the latest news on the Italy's divided response to the request of the father of Eluana Englaro to disconnect her feeding tube. Silvia Aloisi writes, Inspectors Monday visited an Italian clinic that has stopped feeding a comatose woman...

Health Care Still Budget Priority

Posted on February 09, 2009
The Treatment, The New Rebulic's Health blog, reports that President Obama is still committed to health care. Johnathan Cohn writes, The Obama administration?s health care czar may be gone, but here is one hint that its commitment to pursuing major...

State-by-State Food Safety

Posted on February 08, 2009
The Minneapolis Star Tribune points out an additional problem with our current food safety program - the various standards applied by the 50 different states. David Shaffer writes, Minnesota's success in tracing the nationwide salmonella outbreak to peanut butter is...

Have a cup of coffee - for your health

Posted on February 07, 2009
From the New York Times: Drinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study suggests an intriguing potential link to mental health later in life, as well. A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee...

FDA Review by Obama

Posted on February 06, 2009
Yahoo News reports on President Obama's recent discussion about the FDA and a need to improve food safety. The article provides, President Barack Obama, speaking as the nation's chief executive and a father, promised a comprehensive review of the Food...

Kansas Governor for HHS?

Posted on February 06, 2009
McClatchy News reports that Governor Kathleen Sibelius is a leading contender for Secretary of HHS. Steve Kraste writes,Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius emerged Wednesday as a leading candidate for the Cabinet post of secretary of Health and Human Services...

Judges Order Health Benefits for Same-Sex Spouses

Posted on February 05, 2009
The ABA Law Journal provides a brief description of the judicial orders of payment of health insurance benefits to same-sex spouses of employees of the U.S. government. Debra Weiss states, Judge Stephen Reinhardt and Chief Judge Alex Kozinski issued the...

Public Health and the Stimulus

Posted on February 05, 2009
Harold Pollack public health policy researcher and faculty member at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, writes in the New Republic's Treatment Blog about his displeasure over the removal of certain public health measures from the stimulus...

Who will be Secretary of HHS?

Posted on February 04, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health blog provides a helpful list of those individuals who may be considered as contenders for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Sarah Rubenstein writes, It appears a number of governors are in the mix, since...

Economy Hits Health Care Workers/Hospitals

Posted on February 04, 2009
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports on how the economy has had a dramatic impact on local hospitals and health care workers. Chen May Yee writes, For three decades, health care has been Minnesota's economic juggernaut, generating thousands of high-wage jobs,...

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