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Continuing to investigate the practice of ghostwriting, Senator Charles E. Grassley recently sent letters to 10 top medical…

  The team of John Barrasso, M.D. (R-WY) and Tom Coburn, M.D., (R-OK) have joined together to put on a weekly webcast TV…

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) completed a preliminary analysis of…

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…

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

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…