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Health Care Rationing Editorial

Posted on December 30, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has an article by Sally C. Pipes about the potential for rationing of health care under an Obama Administration. She writes, People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom...

Pill-Cutting and Medical Care Saving Attempts

Posted on December 30, 2008
Daily Kos has a story on people trying to save money by extending the life of their medications. Turns out not to be a good idea. Jed L links to a recent MSNBC story and writes, As far back as...

Biology in your Garage??

Posted on December 29, 2008
The NewsHour had an interesting story about people taking biology into their own hands and making up synthetic organisms in their labs. The NewsHour covered this development as an overall good but I do have some concerns about people making...

Massachusetts Health - Model Reform??

Posted on December 29, 2008
Charlie Baker at HealthCareBlog provides a critique of the Massachusetts health reform plan and whether it will serve as a model for the rest of the nation. He writes about whether Massachusetts can serve as a model when there are...

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Cuts in Medicaid

Posted on December 28, 2008
The Washington Post reports on the latest in rather horrific cuts in Medicaid - just as the economy seems to be falling even further into deep recession. The Post story provides, States from Rhode Island to California are being forced...

Naughty or Nice Over the Past Year?

Posted on December 27, 2008
Just in time for the New Year . . . take the Test.

Hospital Harms: A Top 10 List

Posted on December 24, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has a handy list of potential harms that could occur should you find yourself visiting a hospital in the near future. The ECRI Institute, which researches patient safety issues, issued its second annual report...

Cute and Sleepy

Posted on December 24, 2008
Here is a website for all of those who might have some problems sleeping tonight (or to those looking for something sweet and perhaps overly cute on this Christmas Eve).

FDA Reforms

Posted on December 23, 2008
The Diane Rehm show had an interesting and informative hour yesterday on the Food and Drug Administration and suggestions for reform. The program overview provides, Food scares and drug scandals have raised serious concerns over the F.D.A.?s ability to regulate...

Ezekiel Emanuel: New Health Policy Advisor

Posted on December 23, 2008
Maggie Mahar at Health Beat notes the appointment of Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and Rahm Emanuel's brother, as the senior counselor at the White House Office of Management and Budget for Health Policy. She...

Health CEO Helps Bring Down Blago

Posted on December 22, 2008
The New Yorker has a short piece on Pamela Davis, the CEO of Edward Hospital, who helped the FBI gather evidence against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevitch. Nina Burleigh writes, Pamela Davis, blond suburban mother of three, was told that her...

Beware: Wii Injuries

Posted on December 22, 2008
The holiday season spoiling folks at the British Telegraph bring us the news that doctors are concerned about injuries from excessive Wii play. The newspaper reports, The games, which encourage players to mimic the actions of sports, can cause painful...

Wearing a Hat . . . .Medical Myth?

Posted on December 21, 2008
Since most of the country is experiencing some rather nasty cold weather, here is a report from the British Medical Journal to let you know that all those calls for you to wear a hat might have been less than...

Science Stories of the Year

Posted on December 20, 2008
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation did their annual biggest science stories and it was fun to review some of the break-through experiments and discoveries. Here is the overview and you can listen to the podcast: What were the...

Takings and Public Health

Posted on December 19, 2008
Marcia Coyle writing at Law.com reports on takings and public health - a potential expense that most have not considered when thinking about public health measures. She writes, Behold the table egg. A popular staple of breakfast and baking, eggs...

The Brain and Crime and Punishment

Posted on December 19, 2008
The National Law Journal reports on new studies that allegedly demonstrate how individuals sitting on juries make decisions about criminal culpability. The story states, Researchers from Vanderbilt University used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines to chart brain activity as subjects...

Conscience Rule Regulations

Posted on December 18, 2008
The Washington Monthly discusses and critiques the new conscience rule regulations that will go into effect next month. Hilzoy reports, The rule (pdf) covers not just employees who refuse to perform a medical procedure they find objectionable, but to those...

Arthur Caplan on Fresh Air

Posted on December 18, 2008
Earlier this week on Fresh Air, Professor Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed a variety of health issues that President-elect Barack Obama may face during his administration. He also examined some of...

Conscience Rule Regulations

Posted on December 18, 2008
The Washington Post's Rob Stein examines the Bush Administration's new conscience rule regulations. He writes, The Bush administration yesterday granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to provide care that violates their personal beliefs, setting off an intense...

Face Transplant

Posted on December 17, 2008
The New York Times reports on the face transplant that took place this week at the Cleveland Clinic. It is truly an amazing story raising lots of complicated ethical issues. Only the forehead, upper eyelids, lower lip, lower teeth and...

Party Tips from Evolutionary Psychologists

Posted on December 13, 2008
Just in time for the holiday party season, an evolutionary psychologist provides helpful tips on how to meet a romantic partner at a party. The LA Times reports the tips and states, Wondering what to wear at the holiday party...

Extra Frozen Embryos

Posted on December 12, 2008
William Saleton in Slate.com writes about the ethical issues surrounding extra frozen embryos and states, President Bush, God bless him, wants to find homes for them. He wants the parents who made them to let others gestate, deliver, and raise...

New Statement from Vatican on Reproductive Technologies

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Washington Post reports today on the Vatican's new statement on various reproductive technologies. Michelle Boorstein and Rob Stein state in their article, The Vatican, in its first authoritative statement on reproductive science in more than 20 years, today condemned...

Amanda Peet Promotes Childhood Vaccines

Posted on December 12, 2008
National Public Radio's Morning Edition discussed actress Amanda Peet's effort to promote the safety of childhood vaccines. The report provides, Amanda Peet, who starred in films including The X-Files: I Want To Believe and Syriana, is working with Paul Offit,...

Prescription Drugs and Side Effects/Risks

Posted on December 09, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Health blog has an interesting piece on how patients may be scared away from certain drugs after having read materials from the FDA about the risk those drugs pose. Sarah Rubenstein's writes, In an era defined...

Health Care Spending and the Economy

Posted on December 09, 2008
In an op-ed in the New York Times published last Thursday, Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a board member of the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority, wrote about the prospects of health care...

British Health Care v. American Health Care

Posted on December 06, 2008
Ezra Klein takes on Andrew Sullivan on health care and which system, the British or American, provides better results. It is quite a fun read. Here is Andrew Sullivan's view on why the British are more satisfied with their health...

Health Reform Moving Forward

Posted on December 05, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports today that health reform is still alive - even as we see the economy worsen. Laura Meckler writes, Former Sen. Tom Daschle, who is slated to oversee health-care policy in the Obama administration, is kicking...

New Report Finds No Link Between Abortion/Depression

Posted on December 05, 2008
Thinkprogress has a short story summarizing the report from Johns Hopkins University that finds no scientific support for claims that abortions cause "psychological distress, or a 'post-abortion syndrome.'" Yahoo News reports further on the study, stating No high-quality study done...

Flu Advice From Cell Phone

Posted on December 04, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting on a new cell phone feature - warnings about the flu virus. The AP states, A maker of over-the-counter cold and flu remedies released a program this week for the T-Mobile G1, also known as...

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