British NHS loses data – oops!
12/12/2007 British NHS loses data; physicians to boycott database Because of a civil servant’s mistake, two computer disks bearing personal information on half the British […]
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Medical Economics
Ownership and control of your health – it ain’t you any more.
FDA Attacks Bio-identical Hormones
FDA Attacks Bio-identical Hormones The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a major assault on compounding medicine and bio-identical hormones. The FDA is using
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Psychological Kevlar
Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War By Penny Coleman, AlterNet Posted on January 10, 2008, Printed on January 10,
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Is it OK to withhold this information?
Data About Zetia Risks Was Not Fully Revealed By ALEX BERENSON Published: December 21, 2007 the New York Times New evidence shows that the drug
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly – Medical Economics 101
“Primum non-nocere” (“first, do no harm”) is something doctors are taught but not phqarmaceutical companies… when studies showed synthetic hormones given to women in menopause
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Going, going, going …. off patent.
Big Pharma Faces Grim Prognosis Industry Fails to Find New Drugs to Replace Wonders Like Lipitor By BARBARA MARTINEZ and JACOB GOLDSTEIN December 6, 2007;
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Whose doctor?? Follow the money…
Commercial Support and Continuing Medical Education Robert Steinbrook, M.D. The majority of the financial support for continuing medical education (CME) in the United States comes
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When a new drug hits the market….
When I was in medical school, wise old Dr. George Wolf told me, tongue in cheek: `”Brad, remember, when a new drug hits the market,
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MRSA Milk Monsanto mmmmm….
On The Brink of a Genetically Engineered Disaster Got MRSA? (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle has just fit perfectly into
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Why is my doctor so unhappy?
Unhappy Doctors: What Are the Causes and What Can Be Done? By Nigel Edwards Unhappy doctors are a worldwide phenomenon. Several reports from around the
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