Consumer Reports release ratings on NY hospitals
March 5, 2012
Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:57 AM PST – Consumer Reports released rating of NY hospitals performance on four key measures of patient safety: hospital-acquired infections, readmissions, and how well hospital
How The Medical Device Industry Lobbies
March 1, 2012
February 29, 2012 By GoozNews (From Public Citizen): 30 Things You Need to Know About The Medical Device Industry “I think it’s important for members (of Congress) to hear from industry.”
FDA adds warnings about memory loss and blood sugar to widely used class of cholesterol drugs
February 29, 2012
By Associated Press, Published: February 28, WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are adding new safety warnings about risks of memory loss and elevated blood sugar to statins, the most widely prescribed
If You Feel O.K., Maybe You Are O.K.
February 28, 2012
Op-Ed Contributor By H. GILBERT WELCH Published: February 27, 2012 EARLY diagnosis has become one of the most fundamental precepts of modern medicine. It goes something like this: The best
Medical device makers gain political momentum
February 27, 2012
Article by: JIM SPENCER and JAMES WALSH , Star Tribune staff writers Updated: February 27, 2012 – As victims of faulty medical devices press for tougher standards, the focus of
Analysis: Is A New Federal Patient Safety Effort Doing Enough To Curb Medical Errors?
February 23, 2012
By Michael L. Millenson – Feb 22, 2012 The Medicare program is betting on a new course of action to curb what one medical journal has dubbed an “epidemic” of uncontrolled patient
TODAY Investigates: Dirty surgical instruments a problem in the OR
February 22, 2012
By Stacey Naggiar and Kerri Zimmer NBC News A new report suggests doctors across the country are using surgical tools contaminated with blood and other debris and because the FDA doesn’t
C-HIT Story Sparks US Senators’ Request For Probe of State Medical Boards Physician Oversight
February 21, 2012
New Haven Independent by Lisa Chedekel | Feb 20, 2012 8:00 pm. Three U.S. senators are asking the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate
Substantially Unsafe – Medical Devices Pose Great Threat to Patients; safeguards Must be Strengthened, Not Weakened
February 20, 2012
February 2012 www.citizen.org Regulation of medical devices—a $350 billion industry that includes such products as heart and brain stents, artificial hips and implantable defibrillators—is at a crossroads. With a major
FDA releases long-awaited plan to review first generic versions of pricey biotech drugs
February 13, 2012
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, February 11, 11:24 PM – WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications