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…
Congress Preserve Access to Affordable Generic Drugs Act: Passes Senate Judiciary… Thomas Sullivan Oct 22, 2009 0 The Senate Judiciary Committee recently passed a compromise version of Senator Herb Kohl’s (D-WI) bill banning pay-for-delay…
Congress Doc Fix Broken — Senate Moves On Thomas Sullivan Oct 22, 2009 0 Attempts to provide a "doctors' payment fix" failed in the Senate. Essentially, the bill was attempting to be voted on without a…
State Policy State Policy: Minnesota Reconsidering Physician Reporting and Gift Law Thomas Sullivan Oct 22, 2009 0 The Minnesota House of Representatives Commerce and Labor Committee, and members of the Health and Human Services Policy Committee…
FDA FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act Thomas Sullivan Oct 21, 2009 0 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave notice to the public of a Proposed Guidance Development on the Web for the Medical…
ACCME ACCME Increases their Enforcement Efforts Thomas Sullivan Oct 21, 2009 0 The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is increasing their enforcement of the current ACCME standards…