Letters from Grassley: Health Information Technology and Medical Errors
With talk of health care reform overshadowing many of the important details of how to change the health care system, there is…
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Letters from Grassley: Grassley to NIH Why No Disclosure on Resolved…
Senator Charles Grassley’s (R-IA) latest letter to the NIH follows an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that noted…
Protecting Americans from Drug Marketing Act – Who Will Protect Us from the…
Why do politicians want to punish an industry that is developing medications to cure disease? You would think they would applaud…
Health Care Reform: America’s Health Ranking is Fatally Flawed
Although relying on statistics seems to be a common practice in politics, the U.S. ranking of 37th in the world for health care…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Doctors’ Presentations Help Patients
Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel includes an editorial by Thomas Stossel, MD titled Doctor’s Presentations Helps…
Letters from Grassley: National Alliance for Mental Illness — Now We…
The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) is one of the nation’s best organizations. Founded by relatives (parents and…
AMA CEJA: Good Ideas Using Bad Logic
In response to a third report on Continuing Medical Education (CME) issued by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)…
Panel Finds Inconclusive Evidence of Research Misconduct for Former Army…
When Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was a surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., he carried out a Medtronic study…
Preserve Access to Affordable Generic Drugs Act: Passes Senate Judiciary…
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently passed a compromise version of Senator Herb Kohl’s (D-WI) bill banning pay-for-delay…
Doc Fix Broken — Senate Moves On
Attempts to provide a "doctors' payment fix" failed in the Senate. Essentially, the bill was attempting to be voted on without a…