January 2009

According to the OIG, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to do a better job in collecting and evaluating financial…

The ACCME recently issued a letter to The Cancer Letter outlining their inquiry into NEJM over a paper published in 2006 that…

   Another round of stimulus packages are being laid on the table by President Elect Obama, and Digital Health Records…

This past week, Neurosurgeon and Cable News Network (CNN) Health Reporter, Sanjay Gupta, M.D., was offered the position as…

Peter Pitts from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest had this editorial in The Boston Globe over the weekend: Amid…

House Democrats are not wasting any time since the start of session yesterday and according to the Associated Press are promising…

“But all too frequently, what is conveyed about health by many other journalists is wrong or misleading.” This is the theme of a…

Not bothering to wait for President-Elect Obama to be inaugurated, California Representative Fortney Pete Stark, has introduced…

According to recent reports in Health Affairs, the rate of increase in healthcare spending in 2007 dropped to its lowest level…

Today, Ed Silverman the veteran writer of Pharmalot (www.pharmalot.com) announced he is moving on, taking a package from the New…