ACCME to NEJM – No Patent Pending Exception
The ACCME recently issued a letter to The Cancer Letter outlining their inquiry into NEJM over a paper published in 2006 that…
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Health Care Reform: Digital Health Records in Stimulus Package
Another round of stimulus packages are being laid on the table by President Elect Obama, and Digital Health Records…
Health Care Reform: The Gupta Way
This past week, Neurosurgeon and Cable News Network (CNN) Health Reporter, Sanjay Gupta, M.D., was offered the position as…
Massachusetts Physician Disclosure: The Exemption for Research Makes Sense
Peter Pitts from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest had this editorial in The Boston Globe over the weekend:
Amid…
Health Care Reform: SCHIP “Let the Games Begin”
House Democrats are not wasting any time since the start of session yesterday and according to the Associated Press are promising…
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): Health News Reports Often False…
“But all too frequently, what is conveyed about health by many other journalists is wrong or misleading.”
This is the theme of a…
Health Care Reform: Stark to Obama – Happy New Year
Not bothering to wait for President-Elect Obama to be inaugurated, California Representative Fortney Pete Stark, has introduced…
Health Care Reform: Healthcare Growth Slowest in Decade
According to recent reports in Health Affairs, the rate of increase in healthcare spending in 2007 dropped to its lowest level…
Pharmalot – Gone for Now
Today, Ed Silverman the veteran writer of Pharmalot (www.pharmalot.com) announced he is moving on, taking a package from the New…
PhRMA Receives Praise from AMSA
Praise for a policy is not the normal type of thing that would be written about on this website, but since it is the American…