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Daschle Withdraws Name from HHS Consideration

Posted on February 03, 2009
ThinkProgress reports on Senator Daschle's decision to withdraw his name as HHS Secretary. The story provides his statement,Daschle?s full statement below: I have just informed the president that I am withdrawing my name from consideration for secretary of health and...

Stimulate the Economy with HIPAA Actions?

Posted on February 03, 2009
The National Law Journal reports on one of the little-noticed provisions in the proposed stimulus bills - providing state attorneys general with new enforcement power for HIPAA violations, including civil damages and injunctions in federal courts. Marcia Coyle writes, Both...

New Single Payer Organization: What will they accept if single payer isn't on the table?

Posted on February 03, 2009
Ezra Klein points out the new health reform coalition named, "The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care." He describes the new group as follows: Another week, another health care coalition. But this one isn't like most of the others. It's....

Mail Order Drugs: Do they save money and are they safe?

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Boston Globe has an article on the incredible cost-savings found in mail-order drug delivery but also some of the questions about the lack of regulations over their operations. The article reports, . . . . Mail-service pharmacies pitched themselves...

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Payment for an "Episode of Care"

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog posts an interesting blurb on a new idea of how to pay for health care. Jacob Goldstein reports on the episodic care payment and writes, When you pay doctors for every procedure they do,...

SuperBowl - Try Some Red Wine to Celebrate

Posted on February 01, 2009
More news that red wine is good for you. Newsweek reports on some new studies that red wine has powerful effects beyond just being an intoxicant. Tina Peng writes, It's common knowledge that a glass or two of red wine...

Unpaid Taxes Delay Daschle

Posted on January 31, 2009
The New York Times' Robert Pear discusses some of Tom Daschle's tax issues that might disrupt plans for his confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services. He writes, President Obama?s pick for secretary of health and human services, Tom...

Fertility Treatments Under Scrutiny Again

Posted on January 30, 2009
I am sure that most of you heard about the successful births of octuplets last week. The birth of so many children at one time does raise some, ok many, issues. The LA Times reports, Even as the birth of...

Senate Passes SCHIP

Posted on January 30, 2009
The New York Times reports on the Senate's passage of SCHIP. Robert Pear writes, The Senate passed a bill on Thursday to provide health insurance to more than four million uninsured children, as a newly empowered Democratic majority brushed aside...

Food Safety - Peanuts and More . . .

Posted on January 29, 2009
Tom Laskawy, writes about the lack of food safety here in the United States, and informs us of all the problems we are having right now. He states, It's been a bad week for food safety. First, it was the...

Eliminating Waiting Period for Medicare

Posted on January 29, 2009
Harold Pollack writing at Ezra Klein's blog discusses another way to help stimulate the economy - elimination of the two-year waiting period for disabled people to receive Medicare. He explains, This waiting period goes back to 1972, when Congress expanded...

Learning from Banks?

Posted on January 28, 2009
Slate.com's Zachary Meisel and Jesse Pines have a cautionary tale for health care workers and reformers from those who work in the banking industry. They write, The condition of the U.S. economy can be described generously as bleak. But while...

Medicare Reform in the Stimulus Bill

Posted on January 28, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on some of the proposed changes in Medicaid currently being discussed as part of a stimulus bill. You might mistake the economic stimulus package slated for a House vote today for a health-reform...

Mercy Killing: No Further Jail Time

Posted on January 27, 2009
The LA Times provides an update on an attempted mercy killing and the final determination of whether to prosecute the individual who made the attempt. Catherine Sailant reports, James Wheeler, the 85-year-old Carpinteria man who attempted to kill his dementia-stricken...

Kidney Transplant Recipients - Gender Gap

Posted on January 27, 2009
The New York Times reports on a new Johns Hopkins showing that older women are less likely to end up on the kidney transplant waiting list. Roni C. Rabin writes, Women are less likely to receive kidney transplants than men,...

Vaccine Study Shows Safety

Posted on January 26, 2009
Newsweek reports on a recent Italian study that demonstrates the safety of vaccines. Carla Johnson writes A new study from Italy adds to a mountain of evidence that a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines doesn't hurt children, offering...

Pfizer-Wyeth Pharmaceutical Merger

Posted on January 26, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog has many pieces today on the merger of Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Sarah Rubenstein of the Health Blog writes, Pfizer has agreed to acquire Wyeth in a $68 billion deal that?s the largest merger...

Global Gag Rule Overturned

Posted on January 25, 2009
President Obama overturned the rule banning federal funds to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information about them. The Guardian U.K. reports, President Barack Obama today made the most contentious move of his young administration with...

Newshour Health Updates

Posted on January 24, 2009
The on-line PBS Newshour provides interesting health updates. Paul Solman, their economics correspondent, has a new post concerning the future of Medicare and Medicaid. Here is an excerpt: Question/Comment: What is the future of Social Security and Medicare in the...

Clean Air Lead to Longer Life

Posted on January 23, 2009
The Boston Globe reports on a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that cleaner air in a number of our large cities has resulted in an average increase in life expectancy of five months. --- writes,...

FDA Approves Stem Cell Research

Posted on January 23, 2009
The New York Times reports on the FDA's approval of a stem cell therapy in humans. Andrew Pollack writes, In a research milestone, the federal government will allow the world?s first test in people of a therapy derived from human...

Social Determinants of Health

Posted on January 22, 2009
Gail Wilensky, former administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, and David Satcher, former surgeon general and assistant secretary of health during the presidency of Bill Clinton, have a piece in Health Affairs...

Rating Hospitals by Death Rates in California

Posted on January 22, 2009
The LATimes reports the results of a rating system for California hospitals. Lisa Girion writes, Some hospitals are better than others. But for many years all patients had to go on was reputation, doctors' advice, word of mouth and advertising....

Health Care in the Inauguration Speech

Posted on January 21, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog helpfully provides the two references to health care in President Obama's inauguration speech. We, focused as ever, listened for any tidbits about health care and heard two. First, there was an acknowledgment of the...

Faith v. Medicine

Posted on January 21, 2009
The New York Times has a story today on the tension between faith and medicine that exists for some families. Dirk Johnson reports, Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who...

Change Has Come

Posted on January 20, 2009
Here is the newly updated whitehouse.gov website. Looks good.

Happy Martin Luther King Day

Posted on January 19, 2009
Hope that you are enjoying a wonderful day of celebration.

Atul Gawande on Health Reform

Posted on January 19, 2009
Atul Gwande has an interesting article in this week's New Yorker discussing health reform. He provides a history lesson on how other countries came to embrace universal health care and talks about the prospects for reform in the United States,...

Your Kids as Research Subjects

Posted on January 18, 2009
Interesting and thought-provoking story in the New York Times today about researchers using their children in research. Pam Belluck reports, At a birthing class, Dr. Sinha, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stunned everyone, including his wife,...

Autism/Vaccine Controversy Continues

Posted on January 17, 2009
Newsweek reports on the resignation of the executive vice president of Autism Speaks, Alison Singer. The story states, The warfare over vaccines and autism is heating up yet again. This week, Alison Singer, the executive vice president of communications and...

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