Kidney dialysis patients more likely to survive in Connecticut, ProPublica, New Haven Register research shows
April 19, 2012
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 By Mary E. O’Leary, New Haven Register Staff – The estimated cost of serving some 400,000 Americans with dialysis treatment is about $77,000 per patient,
J.&J. Fined $1.2 Billion in Drug Case
April 12, 2012
By KATIE THOMAS Published: April 11, 2012 New York Times – A judge in Arkansas ordered Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary to pay more than $1.2 billion in fines
Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret
April 12, 2012
By PETER DOSHI and TOM JEFFERSON Published: April 10, 2012 The New York Times – IN the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our research
Troubling Flaws in a Heart Device Shake Implant Makers
April 11, 2012
By BARRY MEIER and KATIE THOMAS Published: April 6, 2012 The New York Times – Last October, a high school football coach named Greg Jessee was standing on the sidelines
Nursing Homes Cited After Patient Chokes To Death
April 10, 2012
April 09, 2012|By JOSH KOVNER, jkovner@courant.com, The Hartford Courant – State regulators have fined a Torrington nursing home after an elderly patient — who needed assistance while eating – was
New Book: Mammography Screening—truth, lies and controversy
April 8, 2012
Posted by medconsumers on March 31, 2012 – What happens when a popular cancer screening technology is found to be far more harmful than lifesaving? When the finding becomes clear decades
the Choosing Wisely project, and five tests or procedures You May Not Need
April 5, 2012
Today, a group of nine medical specialty boards released a new report saying that a large number of medical tests and procedures billed as routine are largely unnecessary. They recommended
State Lags In Key Home Health Care Measures
April 4, 2012
C-HIT by Lisa Chedekel | Apr 2, 2012 10:00 pm As the Malloy administration seeks to expand home health care options and reduce reliance on nursing homes, a new national
Drugmakers have paid $8 billion in fraud fines
April 3, 2012
By Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY; Updated 3/6/2012 8:43 AM WASHINGTON – The nation’s largest drugmakers have paid at least $8 billion in fines for repeatedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid over
CR Investigates: Dangerous medical devices
March 28, 2012
Tens of millions of Americans live with medical devices implanted in their bodies—artificial joints, heart defibrillators, surgical mesh. And it’s a safe bet that most of them assume that someone,