Physician Payment Sunshine Act Physician Payment Sunshine Act: House Affordable Health Care for America… Thomas Sullivan Oct 30, 2009 0 The US House of Representatives released their latest version of the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” which contains new…
Conflict of Interest JAMA: Reform of Continuing Medical Education – Still Living in 1910 Thomas Sullivan Oct 29, 2009 0 A recent commentary published in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) begins its call for reforming continuing medical…
Congress Letters from Grassley: Health Information Technology and Medical Errors Thomas Sullivan Oct 29, 2009 0 With talk of health care reform overshadowing many of the important details of how to change the health care system, there is…
Congress Letters from Grassley: Grassley to NIH Why No Disclosure on Resolved… Thomas Sullivan Oct 28, 2009 0 Senator Charles Grassley’s (R-IA) latest letter to the NIH follows an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that noted…
Congress Protecting Americans from Drug Marketing Act – Who Will Protect Us from the… Thomas Sullivan Oct 27, 2009 0 Why do politicians want to punish an industry that is developing medications to cure disease? You would think they would applaud…
Healthcare Reform Health Care Reform: America’s Health Ranking is Fatally Flawed Thomas Sullivan Oct 27, 2009 1 Although relying on statistics seems to be a common practice in politics, the U.S. ranking of 37th in the world for health care…
ACRE Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Doctors’ Presentations Help Patients Thomas Sullivan Oct 27, 2009 0 Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes an editorial by Thomas Stossel, MD titled Doctor’s Presentations Helps…
Congress Letters from Grassley: National Alliance for Mental Illness — Now We… Thomas Sullivan Oct 26, 2009 0 The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) is one of the nation’s best organizations. Founded by relatives (parents and…
AMA AMA CEJA: Good Ideas Using Bad Logic Thomas Sullivan Oct 23, 2009 0 In response to a third report on Continuing Medical Education (CME) issued by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)…
Congress Panel Finds Inconclusive Evidence of Research Misconduct for Former Army… Thomas Sullivan Oct 23, 2009 0 When Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was a surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he carried out a Medtronic study…