Tag
ethics
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Medi-Cal officials’ travel linked to drug makers
Records and interviews show that “Three California officials who oversee billions of dollars in Medi-Cal prescription drug spending have failed…
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Debate over M.D. reporters in Haiti continues
Discussion and debate continues about the ethics of reporters also serving as doctors in Haiti. [Earlier post] The Washington Post‘s…
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Ifill digs into Health Policy lobbying money
PBS Newshour’s Gwen Ifill filed a report on the staggering sums of money spent on lobbying by various industries whose…
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Report focuses on researchers’ conflicts of interest
There are vulnerabilities in how financial conflicts of interest are handled by NIH-funded researchers, according to a report (PDF, 46…
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Covering Health: First year’s most popular posts
With a year of posts behind us, we thought it would be a good time to look back and see…
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Hospital says it gives content to short-staffed media
Lindsey Miller of Ragan Communications Inc., a publisher of corporate communications, writes that Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has…
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Doctor calls for principles in health reporting
Nortin Hadler, M.D., in an opinion piece for ABC News, writes about his worries for health journalism. Hadler, who is…
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AIDS advocates: Obama needs to use leverage
The Chicago Tribune‘s Tom Hamburger reports that several global health advocacy organizations, including Doctors without Borders and OxFam International, have…
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Parikh defends Emanuel of ‘death panel’ fame
Pediatrician and blogger Rahul Parikh published an defense of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama adviser and the right wing’s latest…
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SF Bay Area station runs sponsored health ‘news’
Michael Mechanic, a senior editor at Mother Jones, blogs about airtime for sale at KRON-San Francisco, a television station that…