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Neuromarketers Score a Win By Using Brain's Response to Magazine Cover Choices

Posted on September 06, 2010
The magazine New Scientist chose its August cover based on tests of three covers by neuromarketers who study the brain's response to products. Did it work? Apparently, yes. The NY Times reports that Graham Lawton, the deputy editor of the...

Costs Are Being Shifted Onto Workers For Family Coverage

Posted on September 05, 2010
The amount that workers are paying toward the cost of family health coverage increased this year by 14 percent, or $482, according to the benchmark 2010 Employer Health Benefits Survey released September 3 by the Kaiser Foundation and the Health...

Prescription Drug Use Continues to Rise

Posted on September 04, 2010
Almost one-half of Americans used at least one prescription drug last month according to a study released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The following chart shows the increase in prescription drugs from 1999 to 2008. Other key findings:...

Garwin Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Medicine, Visiting Professor of Law

Posted on August 31, 2010
The Southern Illinois University School of Law is seeking nominations and applications for the Garwin Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Medicine for the 2011-12 academic year. Established in 1996, the Garwin Professorship is funded in part by a grant...

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Federal Circuit Rules No Link between Autism and Vaccine

Posted on August 27, 2010
According to The BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld the findings of the lower court that reject a causal connection between childhood vaccines and the onset of...

Increased Rate of Hearing Loss Noted in Teenagers

Posted on August 24, 2010
The rate of hearing loss in teenagers has significantly increased. A decade ago, the rate was one in seven. The current rate is one in five. The NY Times reports on a new study published in the Journal of the...

Consumer Information on the Egg Recall

Posted on August 20, 2010
FoodSafety.gov has information posted on the egg recall for consumers: Federal and state officials are investigating a nationwide increase of Salmonella Enteritidis infections associated with shell eggs. � Outbreak: Since May 2010, there has been a four-fold increase in the...

Obesity Rates Increase: One in Three U.S. Citizens is Now Obese

Posted on August 14, 2010
The NY Times reports the disturbing news that the number of obese people in the U.S. has increased by an additional 2.4 milllion people in the past two years. Now, 72 million people in the U.S. are obese. This constitutes...

Should Fast Food Providers Serve Statins With High Fat Meals?

Posted on August 13, 2010
According to a paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology, for the same cost as the packet of catsup you get with your burger, a statin could be provided to you that would offset the increase in heart attack...

No More Finger Sticks: Implantable Blood Glucose Monitor Is Great News For Diabetics

Posted on July 28, 2010
A new implantable blood glucose monitor that is in the works is good news for diabetics who have to do finger sticks four times a day. According to the Great Beyond, [r]esearchers have developed an implantable sensor that can monitor...

Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care

Posted on July 25, 2010
Britain's new coalition government is proposing "the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948." The NY Times reports that [p]ractical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its...

Regulations for California's Green Chemistry Initiative Released For Comment

Posted on July 22, 2010
Hat tip to the new Food Liability Law blog and its guest blogger Lee Smith who explains that California is on the cusp of approving draft regulations that are proposed for California?s new Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI). Green chemistry, per...

New Gel Can Reduce Risk of HIV Infection by Nearly 40%

Posted on July 21, 2010
According to a story by the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report [a] microbicide gel containing Gilead's HIV drug tenofovir used by women before and after sex has been shown to reduce their risk of HIV infection by nearly 40%,...

According to a story by theKaiser

Posted on July 20, 2010
According to a story by theKaiser Daily Global Policy Report, [a] microbicide gel containing Gilead's HIV drug tenofovir used by women before and after sex has been shown to reduce their risk of HIV infection by nearly 40%, according to...

Proposed BIll Gives FDA Mandatory Recall Powers

Posted on July 20, 2010
Hat tip to Pharmalot for highlighting a proposed bill to give the FDA mandatory recall powers: In light of the Johnson & Johnson recall scandal, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform has, as promised, introduced a bill to...

SSRN Top Ten Health Law Downloads Between May 15 and July 14, 2010

Posted on July 15, 2010
The following are the top ten SSRN downloads for Health Law for the period between May 15 and July 14, 2010: Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 197 Over-Parenting Gaia Bernstein, Zvi H. Triger, Seton Hall University - School of Law,...

36% of Physicians Don't Believe in Reporting Impaired Colleagues

Posted on July 14, 2010
It is unfortunate, but not surprising, that 36% of physicians state that they may not report an impaired colleague. Researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed 1,891 doctors in various specialties in Physicians' Perceptions,...

Lawsuit Threatened Over McDonald's Use of Toys to Advertise Happy Meals

Posted on July 10, 2010
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sent a demand letter to McDonald?s threatening to sue if the company didn?t stop using toys to market Happy Meals to young children. The Washington-based group said using toy-related promotions violated...

Children are Seeing More Television Advertisements for Fast Foods and Racial Gaps in Exposures Increase

Posted on July 08, 2010
According to a recent study assessing food advertising trends, children now see more television advertisements for fast food and fewer television advertisements for sweets and beverages than they did in 2003. In addition, the study concludes that racial gaps in...

The New EU Mandatory Organic Logo

Posted on July 05, 2010
As of July 1, new regulations came into effect that require the use of the European organic logo on pre-packaged organic food and beverage products. The European Commission states that the new logo is designed to provide a consumer with...

Kaiser Foundation's June Update on Health Disparities

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Kaiser Foundation has posted its June Update on Health Disparities which includes summaries of news articles on efforts to recruit multi-racial donors for the National Marrow Donor Program, cultural factors contributing to disparities in treatment among lung-cancer patients, and...

A New Report Ranks U.S. Last Among 7 Industrialized Countries On Health System Performance

Posted on June 30, 2010
Even though the US health care system is the most expensive, a new Commonwealth Report ranks the US last on measures of health system performance in five areas: quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability to lead long,...

HHS Launching Health Website For Consumers This Week

Posted on June 29, 2010
Finding health insurance may become as easy as shopping for an airline ticket with a new federal website which will give consumers a list of all private and government health care plans for individuals and small businesses in their areas....

Updated Medicaid Primer Explains the Basic Components of Medicaid and How the New Health Reform Law Will Change the Program

Posted on June 26, 2010
Kaiser Foundation?s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured posted an update to its Primer on Medicaid and explains how the new health reform law will change Medicaid: Medicaid: A Primer ? provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid,...

Proposed Model Jury Instructions Limiting the Use of Electronic Technologies by Jurors

Posted on June 24, 2010
As a result of the increased use by jurors of web enabled mobile phones and devices, the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States has issued a memo regarding Juror...

Witness Prep Increases Accuracy of Testimony

Posted on June 22, 2010
Listen up lawyers. Finally some good empirical evidence to support what we already know -- careful prep of our witnesses helps them to provide more accurate testimony. Forensic Magazine provides the story: The study, by researchers at the Universities of...

FDA Advisory Panel Nixes "Pink Viagra"

Posted on June 19, 2010
Flibanserin is a drug under consideration by the FDA for the treatment of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in women. An FDA advisory panel voted 10 to one that flibanserin was not significantly better than a placebo, and unanimously that the...

Are Seasoned Profs Better at Preparing Students for Advanced Learning?

Posted on June 17, 2010
In an article published in the Journal of Political Economy, researchers detail the results of a study that indicates that experienced professors are better at preparing students for long-term academic success than their less-experienced counterparts...

Study Suggests that A Combo of Polyphenols in Green Tea and Red Wine Could Halt Prostate Cancer Growth

Posted on June 15, 2010
Scientists believe that antioxidants in a combination of red wine and green tea inhibit the growth of prostate cancer as well as colon cancer, breast cancer and gastric cancers. An article in ScienceDaily discusses this new and exciting discovery that...

Regulations For 10% Tax on Tanning

Posted on June 13, 2010
The Internal Revenue Service announced that it has issued regulations detailing how the 10-percent excise tax on indoor tanning services (created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ) will be administered. The regulations go into effect on July...

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