Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Baby Miller case decided by Texas Supreme Court

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One year, five months, and twenty-seven days after oral argument, the Texas Supreme Court decided the Baby Miller case today. The court, wh...

Big Increase Seen in People Lacking Health Insurance

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Robert Pear of the New York Times has an article on the Census Bureau's report on health coverage and the uninsured. Texas's per...
Monday, September 29, 2003

New form of defensive medicine.

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Modern Healthcare's Daily Dose has a short piece today about a new report from the Center for Studying Health System Change . As DD r...

End-of-life care and the battle over medical proxy's right to decide.

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The Boston Globe published a lengthy article in Sunday's edition about an elderly woman in a locked-in state and the attempts by Mass....
Sunday, September 28, 2003

The Times got it wrong.

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An article in today's New York Times follows up on research first published last year in the medical journals Brain (abstract only; f...
Saturday, September 27, 2003

Medicare reform.

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Saul Friedman argues in today's Newsday ("GRAY MATTERS: Ideology and Meanness in Medicare Debate") that "as it now stan...
Thursday, September 25, 2003

When an untested drug is a patient's last chance.

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An article in the Boston Globe this week explored the problems faced vby patients with terminal illnesses who have run out of drugs to hel...
Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Boston Children's Hospital.

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More cases, going back three years, not just one (the main focus of the Mass. Department of Public Health's scathing report last week), ...

Children's Hospital in Boston.

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With The Boston Globe's archive policy, it's hard to find the links to all of its articles about the investigations into deaths ther...

214th birthday of the Judiciary Act of 1789.

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Please allow a former teacher of Civil Procedure and Federal Courts to note the anniversary of the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789 . B...
Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Medical error at a children's hospital

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The Boston Globe has printed another good article on the recent deaths at the local children's hospital, this time focusing on the sys...
Monday, September 22, 2003

Proposition 12: the dawning of a new day . . . .

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Here's a good one from the unbeatable Ben Sargent . . . http://www.ucomics.com/bensargent/2003/09/16/
Sunday, September 21, 2003

Case study of medical error in one of the best pediatric hospitals in the US.

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This Boston Globe article should be required reading for anyone who is serious about addressing medical error in complex, high-quality, te...

End-of-life decision making.

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This week's New England Journal of Medicine published a contribution to much-needed research into the way decisions are made about life-...

Does HIPAA apply to the NFL?

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As we all know, HIPAA gives patients a right of access to their own medical records. Right? Right . Unless, that is, you are a profession...
Saturday, September 20, 2003

Dubya takes Prop 12 on the road.

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Trial lawyers, says the President in today's weekly radio address , are driving up health care costs and taking their fees away from des...

The Safety of Imported Drugs

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An editorial in today's New York Times describes the wackiness of the pharmaceutical industry's global pricing strategy. The FDA ...
Thursday, September 18, 2003

Another North Texas physicians' group charged with price-fixing.

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The FTC has filed a complaint against yet another north Texas IPA. (See my earlier post on the last such action, in June of this year.) ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Comfort Foods Switch Off Stress, Scientists Find

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No kidding. Really, did we need a paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on this to know what is now headline news...
Monday, September 15, 2003

Democrats find bright side of loss on Prop. 12

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Here, in an article from the Austin American-Statesman , is a somewhat more plausible spin from the losing side of the Prop. 12 battle: Vie...