Monday, December 22, 2003

British Medical Association's call for review of medical ethics training.

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As reported in today's Scotsman , the British Medical Association today (i) published an 800-page 2nd edition of Medical Ethics Today , ...
Sunday, December 21, 2003

There’s a Blurry Line Between Rx and O.T.C.

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Interesting piece by Gina Kolata on the way prescription meds get reclassified for over-the-counter sales. The article accurately states: ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2003

More on medical marijuana.

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Angel McClary Raich, one of the successful plaintiffs (on appeal) in yesterday's ruling by the 9th Circuit ( see below ) has her own web...

Medical marijuana use survives US Controlled Substances Act.

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The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit yesterday ruled that the federal government lacked the authority under the Commerce Clause of th...
Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Not-So-Public Relations - How the drug industry is branding itself with bioethics. By Carl Elliott

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Carl Elliott from Univ. of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics - an excellent bioethics think tank - has a great commentary on Eli Lilly...
Monday, December 08, 2003

Pattern of Mistakes Found in Zoo Deaths (washingtonpost.com).

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HealthLawBlog doesn't often cover developments in the world of veterinary medicine, but a two-part Washington Post series on problems a...
Saturday, December 06, 2003

Links to N.Y. Times articles.

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Links like the one in the post immediately below are a little iffy. The Times takes articles off its free site after a few days and then l...

Hospitals Say They’re Penalized by Medicare for Improving Care.

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Reed Abelson has an excellent piece in this morning's N.Y. Times about the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for reimbursing h...
Friday, December 05, 2003

Children's Hospital Bans Smoking by Staff.

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I am no fan of the tobacco industry, but I wonder about today's news story that all employees of a children's hospital in Columbus,...
Thursday, December 04, 2003

Even the conservative Cato Institute hates this Medicare reform law.

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Read their critique (largely based on the fiscal irresponsibility of the thing) here .

Clinton-era policy makers analyze Medicare reform law.

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As reported by Reuters this afternoon (click here ), liberal health care policy experts are blasting the new Medicare reform package.
Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Medicare chief to resign.

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In the past hour everyone's reporting that Tom Scully has submitted his resignation as CMS chief effective Dec. 16th. Here is the CBS ...
Monday, December 01, 2003

Church May Penalize Politicians

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Great article in Monday's L.A. Times about the rustlings within the Catholic Church to discipline Catholic politicians whose public pos...
Sunday, November 30, 2003

Texas Doctors’ Group Settles FTC Price-Fixing Charges

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Another Texas physicians' group came up short in a price-fixing investigation by the FTC. This must be at least the third (possibly fou...

Do religious groups have to follow laws they don't believe in?

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Texas Health Blog provides a link to this AP story about litigation in NY and Calif. concerning whether the Catholic Church's employee...

20 Questions for Senior Judge Richard Arnold.

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Howard Bashman's "20 Questions" session (on his blog, How Appealing ) with Senior Judge Richard Arnold should be required rea...

Keillor on Twain.

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He's been called the Mark Twain of our generation, a born story-teller whose tales from the heartland of America have been embraced by s...

Thanksgiving poem, on the rocks, with a twist.

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Today's Book Review section of the N.Y. Times includes a poem by Susan Kinsolving -- "Fill the Cavity with Crumbs" about Tha...

More reactions to the Medicare reform bill.

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It's been touted -- by supporters and critics alike -- as the most sweeping set of changes to Medicare since its inception in 1965. It ...
Friday, November 28, 2003

US Congress OKs nanotech bill.

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According to a report in the on-line version of The Scientist , Congress has passed S. 189 , the "21st Century Nanotechnology Research...