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Visiting some health care blogs you might not know
FierceHealthcare, a site that says it’s geared toward health executives, spotlighted nine health care bloggers and, once they realized all…
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GE uses UK libel law to silence Danish researcher
Following in the footsteps of several other device manufacturers and medical interests, GE Healthcare is using UK libel laws, which…
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NPR to air explanatory Fosamax piece tonight
NPR correspondent Alix Spiegel’s latest piece, an examination of how Merck manufactured a disease (and an epidemic) en route to…
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OIG: CDC missed most conflicts of interest in 2007
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s latest report covers “CDC’s ethics program for special government…
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Scripps finds inequalities in nursing home care
Lee Bowman and Thomas Hargrove of Scripps Howard News Service looked into nursing homes around the country and found the…
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Daschle pushes health IT to Obama, clients profit
South Dakota Democrat and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is not registered as a lobbyist, and has not held…
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Calif. SSI payouts insufficient, lacking in oversight
Capital Public Radio’s Kelley Weiss explored how cuts to California’s Supplemental Security Income were impacting older disabled Californians and, in…
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Lieberman: Joe’s looking out for folks at home
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has been a vocal burr in the saddle of the Democrat majority’s push for health care…
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Panel recommends FDA restrict MRI scan drugs
An advisory panel has “recommended Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration effectively ban, for patients with severe kidney disease,…
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Series examines life expectancy disparities
In their Contra Costa Times series “Shortened Lives,” Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman start by profiling three different people from…