Friday, April 30, 2004

U of Wash update.

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One interesting aspect of the qui tam case, the settlement of which was announced this morning, is that the "plaintiff" (technical...

Qui tam action against Univ. of Washington teaching hospital settles for $35 million

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Assuming the Seattle Times got it right in their article this morning , the pending announcement of a settlement in the False Claims Act sui...
Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Bioethics novels.

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Just came across this author profile from the April 18th edition of The Providence Journal . I don't know if Jodi Picoult's books ...
Monday, April 26, 2004

ER care being triaged at University of Colo. Hosp. in Boulder.

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It doesn't seem like much of a story until you read the details. But, acording to a piece in today's Washington Post , hospitals l...
Sunday, April 25, 2004

The New York Times: "Administration Says a `Zone of Autonomy' Justifies Its Secrecy on Energy Task Force"

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Couldn't help noticing this headline in today's Times . Too bad this Administration isn't equally eager to protect the "zo...

Do poets die young(er)?

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According to a study published in the Journal of Death Studies , the answer is yes. (See this Reuters article for the full story). Many n...

Gov. Romney won't let gay outsiders wed in Massachusetts.

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It seems the Bay State has a statute that dates back to 1913 prohibiting out-of-state couples from marrying if their marriage would be void ...
Saturday, April 24, 2004

More medical hoax sites on the WWW

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I noted earlier ( here and here ) the masterful fake cloning Web site in connection with (but with no reference to) the new film, Godsend ....
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Google Search: cloning

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The fake cloning site is well done in a spooky kind of way. And if you type "cloning" into the Google search window, you get a s...

Godsend Institute.

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If you want to see a movie promotion site that is over the top, but fascinating, check out the site for the new DeNiro move, Godsend .
Sunday, April 18, 2004

Infectious disease . . . and the duty to treat: what are the limits?

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I recently did a piece for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal on the duty (and the limits to that duty) of health care professionals ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Health care and IT.

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Steve Pearlstein has a good piece in today's Washington Post on the failure, so far, of the health care sector to jump on the informati...
Saturday, April 10, 2004

HR 3108 signed into law

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As stated by the White House Press Secretary , the President signed into law the pension law discussed here earlier today and yesterday , w...

Parkland's not the only one . . . .

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According to a story in today's N.Y. Times , the Westchester County government has created a committee to monitor the public county hos...

More on the pension bill that may kill the antitrust challenge to The Match.

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AP has picked up the story that first appeared yesterday in Modern Healthcare . There seems to be some confusion as to whether the about-...
Friday, April 09, 2004

Antitrust challenge to the residency match may be about to bite the dust.

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Modern Healthcare is reporting that a Conference Committee-added provision of "the Pension Funding Equity Act [ H.R. 3108 ] could end ...

More on drugs: Reimportation.

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Chuck Grassley can be a royal pain sometimes, but this time the Republican Senator from Iowa, may have done something useful. Yesterday, he...
Thursday, April 08, 2004

Drug costs redux.

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Who knows? Maybe drug costs will be the leading edge of a health-care reform movement that drags the country, kicking and screaming, into u...
Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Been down so long, it looks like up to me.

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I'm not sure where the time goes sometimes, and it comes as a bit of shock that I haven't posted to this space in well over a week. ...
Sunday, March 28, 2004

Medicare: belly up or double down?

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The scary news out of DC last week was from the Medicare Board of Trustees, whose 2004 Annual Report predicted that the middle-class health...