Category Archives: Headline of the Day
How Can So Many Bright People Not See What I See?
February 5, 2014Connecticut Health Foundation | February 4, 2014 | Today’s guest post was written by Jean Rexford, Executive Director of the CT Center for Patient Safety and former Connecticut Health Foundation
Not all FDA-approved drugs get same level of testing
January 25, 2014Liz Szabo, USA TODAY12:21 p.m. EST January 22, 2014 | Patients might assume that all approved drugs are created equal. Yet new research finds that there can be big differences
Teaching Doctors the Art of Negotiation
January 25, 2014NY Times | JANUARY 23, 2014, 12:30 PM | By DHRUV KHULLAR | By the time I rushed to his room, my patient had already ripped out his I.V., packed his
5 reasons to stop using antibacterial soap
January 21, 2014Salon | Wednesday, Jan 8, 2014 08:00 AM EST | Joseph Stromberg, Smithsonian.com | This article originally appeared on Smithsonian.com | A few weeks ago, the FDA announced a bold new position
YOUR MONEY-Are drug companies using your health records to sell you stuff?
January 9, 2014Reuters – 6 hours ago By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – If you went to visit your doctor and a drug company representative was sitting in the room with
Report Finds More Flaws in Digitizing Patient Files
January 9, 2014NY Times By REED ABELSON and JULIE CRESWELLJAN. 8, 2014 Although the federal government is spending more than $22 billion to encourage hospitals and doctors to adopt electronic health records,
In A Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power to Ban Harmful Prescribers
January 8, 2014by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Jan. 6, 2014, 4:43 p.m. Medicare plans to arm itself with broad new powers to better control — and potentially ban — doctors engaged in fraudulent
In Churn of Assisted Living Deals, An Island of Misery
January 7, 2014by A.C. Thompson ProPublica, Dec. 31, 2013, 2:54 p.m. The one-story beige building on Southwest Hill Road in McMinnville, Ore. – an old mill town between Portland and Salem –
New White Paper: America’s Unaccountable Generic Drug Industry; How Legal Immunity Could Be Making You Sick
January 4, 2014December 10, 2013 CENTER FOR JUSTICE & DEMOCRACY RELEASES NEW WHITE PAPER: America’s Unaccountable Generic Drug Industry; How Legal Immunity Could Be Making You Sick In a new White Paper
How a cow could kill you: New antibiotic guidelines still fail to protect public
December 29, 2013CNN Opinion By Louise M. Slaughter and Robert S. Lawrence December 27, 2013 Strep throat should not kill you. Nor should a knee scratch that becomes infected. For decades, the world has