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Women and Health Insurance

Posted on June 30, 2008
Ezra Klein reports on the findings of Jon Cohn regarding the health insurance industry and women He writes, Jon Cohn peers into insurance price differentials and comes back with a depressing, but unsurprising, finding: Insurers charge women more than they...

FDA - More Bad Produce?

Posted on June 30, 2008
The Washington Post reports that it may be more than just tomatoes that contain the salmonella that has sickened more than 810 across the United States. Annys Shin reports, Tomatoes carrying a rare form of salmonella that has sickened more...

CT Scans and New Health Technologies: A Cost/Benefit Analysis

Posted on June 29, 2008
The New York Times has a long front page article today on the value of CT scans and other new technologies that doctors feel they need to use for patient health without much proof that they promote and health. There...

Informed Consent or Compelled Speech

Posted on June 28, 2008
The Eighth Circuit has overturned an injunction granted to Planned Parenthood that prevented the South Dakota informed consent abortion statute from going into effect. The ASCBlog reports on the case and states, An en banc panel of the U.S. Court...

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Medicare Delayed

Posted on June 27, 2008
The New York Times reported yesterday on the delay in the Senate's consideration of the Medicare Bill which would have blocked the 10 percent automatic cut in Medicare payments to physicians scheduled to begin in July. Now, those cuts are...

Some Happiness for Your Day

Posted on June 27, 2008
Please click here --- I want that guy's job - fun dancing, travel and opportunity to show how much we all have in common with each other. More information about Matt and his mission can be found here.

American Poor and Exotic Illnesses

Posted on June 26, 2008
The LA Times reports on a number of exotic illnesses that strike the poor living in the United States. Perhaps if they had some health coverage this wouldn't be happening . . . Wendy Hansen writes, Despite plummeting mortality rates...

Privacy Standards for Online Health Records

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has a helpful overview of the new privacy framework agreed to by some internet folks for protecting privacy of online health records. Google, Microsoft and a bunch of other organizations said yesterday they have...

Checklists Adopted by WHO

Posted on June 25, 2008
The New York Times reports on the adoption by the WHO of a series of checklists to help reduce injuries and deaths during surgery. Lawrence Altman writes, The World Health Organization issued its first guidelines on Tuesday aimed at reducing...

Practicing Medicine without a License

Posted on June 25, 2008
From my local paper, A Hamilton County grand jury indicted a Fort Mitchell man today, accusing him of treating patients at a medical clinic even though he?s not a doctor. Jack Lee Readnour, 64, was indicted on one count of...

God Committees and Organ Shortages

Posted on June 23, 2008
Slate.com's Sally Satel has a short piece on "God Committees," and the history of how these committees operated and how decisions were and are now being made about the appropriate distribution of human organs among many needy individuals. Ms. Satel...

Summer Reading

Posted on June 23, 2008
Perhaps you have some extra time this summer and are looking for an informative book about the corruptin of medical research, your search is over -- Professors Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy Wagner have written a new book entitled Bending...

Genetic Testing Regulation and Inspection

Posted on June 20, 2008
Earlier this week, California started inspecting genetic testing companies. The LATimes reported, California health regulators have dealt a blow to direct-to-consumer genetic testing start-ups by demanding that 13 companies halt sales in the state until they prove they have met...

Superhero Quiz

Posted on June 20, 2008
Happy Friday and Longest Day of the Year. Just for fun - Take the Superhero Quiz to find out your inner superhero personality. Thanks to Shakespeare's Sister for the quiz.

AMA - Home Births Resolution

Posted on June 19, 2008
The AMA passed a resolution to introduce legislation to regulate home births. Women's Health News provides some background on the resolution and states, The AMA did recommend for adoption an amended resolution (205) on home birth, as follows: ?That our...

Health Reform and the Senate Finance Committee

Posted on June 19, 2008
Ezra Klein continues his praise for Prepare to Launch and Senator Max Baucus' efforts to raise awareness of health reform and what type of support such reform needs from the Senate Finance Committee. He writes, Whether anyone is actually more...

ADHD as a Beneficial Adaptive Trait?

Posted on June 18, 2008
Slate.com's WIlliam Saletan has a brief article discussing ADHD and its evolutionary origins. He writes that an understand of its potential usefulness in the past may help our society to adopt to ADHD rather than forcing individuals with ADHD to...

Searching for a New Surgeon General

Posted on June 18, 2008
McClatchy News reports that Dr. James W. Holsinger is unlikely to be the next Surgeon General. Halimah Abdullah writes, Sen. Jim Bunning, one of Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr.'s staunchest supporters in his bid to become U.S. surgeon general, suggested...

Medicare Fraud - Too Easy

Posted on June 17, 2008
The Washington Post reported on last Friday some rather shocking facts about Medicare Fraud - and how easy it appears to be. Carrie Johnson writes, All it took to bilk the federal government out of $105 million was a laptop...

Harriet McBryde Johnson

Posted on June 17, 2008
A little over a week ago, disability rights activist, Harriet McBryde Johnson passed away at age 50. The New York Times reports, Harriet McBryde Johnson, a feisty champion of the rights of the disabled who came to prominence after she...

Health Summit: Learning About Future Fiscal Problems

Posted on June 16, 2008
Ezra Klein reports on how Congress is getting ready for health reform. He writes, . . . . Today, the Senate Finance Committee is hosting the "Prepare for Launch" health reform summit. Baucus, Grassley, and the rest of the committee...

Pro-Life Pharmacies . . .

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Washington Post reports today on the opening in Virginia of a new pharmacy that will not carry contraceptive devices. Rob Stein writes, When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with...

Spam, Fake Drugs and Health

Posted on June 12, 2008
The LATimes reports on the amount of money that spammers who sell fake prescription drugs, including viagra (I am sure that you have seen some of the ads in your e-mail) and how such spam will only increase. There is...

U.S. Life Expectancy at 78 - We're #30!

Posted on June 12, 2008
News organizations report on the rise in life expectancy in the United States - which now stands above 78 years. This is great news. The not-so-great news is that the United States placed 30th in overall life expectancy. The New...

LA Hospital Settles Patient Dumping Suit

Posted on June 10, 2008
The L.A. Times reported recently that Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has agreed to a settlement of civil and criminal charges arising from allegations concerning patient dumping. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center on Friday settled allegations that it left a paraplegic man...

Firing the Patient

Posted on June 10, 2008
The New York Times has a piece today by Dr. Rahul K. Parikh who writes about dealing with a difficult relative of a patient and deciding to end his relationship with the patient because of it. His decision-making process is...

Elizabeth Edwards to Advise Obama on Health Care Issues

Posted on June 09, 2008
This is a bit of a surprise. Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama announced today that Elizabeth Edwards will be advising him on health care issues. TPM Election Central reports, Obama's speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and...

Prescribing Patterns

Posted on June 09, 2008
Ezra Klein takes on the question of why doctors may be over-prescribing drugs. He writes, . . . . Doctors make money from prescribing treatments. If, as in England, they made money by not prescribing treatments (i.e, through capitation pay,...

The Next President and Public Health and Flu

Posted on June 04, 2008
Well, now that both parties have nominees for President, we should start thinking about the challenges that the next President will face. DemFromCt at DailyKos does an excellent job summarizing some of the public health issues that need to be...

Disease Mongering

Posted on June 04, 2008
PLoS Medicine published an interesting article on the popularity of "disease mongering" and the harms that it causes. Ray Moynihan , Evan Doran, and David Henry write, Disease mongering is the selling of sickness that widens the boundaries of illness...

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