2009

With talk of health care reform overshadowing many of the important details of how to change the health care system, there is…

Senator Charles Grassley’s (R-IA) latest letter to the NIH follows an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that noted…

Why do politicians want to punish an industry that is developing medications to cure disease?  You would think they would applaud…

Although relying on statistics seems to be a common practice in politics, the U.S. ranking of 37th in the world for health care…

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes an editorial by Thomas Stossel, MD titled Doctor’s Presentations Helps…

The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) is one of the nation’s best organizations. Founded by relatives (parents and…

In response to a third report on Continuing Medical Education (CME) issued by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)…

When Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was a surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he carried out a Medtronic study…

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently passed a compromise version of Senator Herb Kohl’s (D-WI) bill banning pay-for-delay…

Attempts to provide a "doctors' payment fix" failed in the Senate.   Essentially, the bill was attempting to be voted on without a…