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Tax Problems Again for HHS Nominee

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports that Kathleen Sebelius has a small tax problem that has been corrected. Sarah Rubenstein writes, Sebelius, who testified yesterday before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, amended three years of tax...

Interesting New Study - HOT Tea Drinkers Beware

Posted on March 31, 2009
The LATimes reports on a new study in the British Medical Journal concerning the link between hot tea and cancer (who knew). According to the study,hot tea (and they mean hot) is not so great for you. Karen Kaplan writes,...

Cigarette Tax Increase

Posted on March 31, 2009
The Associated Press provides details on the cigarette tax increase that takes place today. The AP reports, Tobacco companies and public health advocates, longtime foes in the nicotine battles, are trying to turn the situation to their advantage. The major...

Frontline: Sick Around America

Posted on March 31, 2009
PBS's Frontline will be airing Sick Around America on March 31, 2009. I really enjoy most Frontline episodes and have used some excerpts from those relating to health issues in my health law classes The PBS website generally has useful...

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Splitting the FDA

Posted on March 30, 2009
Kaisernetwork.org provides information on the recent talk about splitting the FDA into two separate agencies with one focusing on food and another focusing on medical products. The site reports, Some drug industry executives think a split FDA might result in...

Caregivers and Alzheimer's Disease - Talk of the Nation

Posted on March 29, 2009
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation had an interesting and informative discussion with Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Surgeon General David Satcher concerning new ways to address Alzheimer's...

Fun Website

Posted on March 28, 2009
Here is a great website - http://academicearth.org/ Lots of lectures by great scholars Keep Learning!

Shortage of Primary Care Physicians

Posted on March 27, 2009
On the Daily Beast's website, Dr. Abraham Verghese writes about the problem of a shortage of primary care physicians. President Obama?s proposal to solve the nation?s health-care woes includes a plan to commit billions of dollars to ?digitizing? medical records...

Cost-Shifting: New Report

Posted on March 27, 2009
The Center for American Progress details the cost of the uninsured in a new report. The report details the $1100 cost-shifting from the uninsured to the insured under our current health care system. The report by Ben Furnas and Peter...

Suicide Gene?

Posted on March 26, 2009
THe Daily Beast website has a brief story about the possibility of a suicide gene. Casey Schwartz writes, The news on Monday that Sylvia Plath?s son, Nicholas Hughes, had killed himself, reopened a macabre chapter of literary history. Obituaries revealed...

Waiving Your Right to Review

Posted on March 25, 2009
Yesterday's Talk of the Nation has a panel discussion concerning reviews of doctor performance appearing on websites and some doctors who are asking patients to sign waivers that they will not post items on websites without approval. The brief write-up...

FDA Must Reconsider Plan B Rules For Young Women

Posted on March 25, 2009
The Washington Post has a good story on the federal district court decision on the morning-after pill and the FDA's decision in 2006 to refuse to permit young women below the age of 18 access to it. Rob Stein writes,...

Swedish Medical Students and Criminals too

Posted on March 24, 2009
The New York Times has an interesting article on some recent difficulties Swedish medical schools have had with criminals applying and being accepted at their schools. Dr. Lawrence Altman writes, In contrast with the United States, Swedish laws and customs...

Time for Health Reform

Posted on March 24, 2009
Today's Diane Rehm Show discusses the Obama Administration health reform effort and whether this is the time to initiate such major changes. Here is the lineup: 10:00 The Politics of Health Care Reform Some argue health care is central to...

Drug Reps No Longer Quite So Popular

Posted on March 23, 2009
AMNews.com reports on the changing relationship between doctors and representatives from pharmaceutical companies. Kevin O'Reilly writes, Pharmaceutical companies -- battered by a sluggish drug pipeline, the looming loss of blockbuster patented drugs, an economy in recession and scrutiny of their...

David Blumenthal and HIT (Health Information Technology)

Posted on March 23, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog provides some insight into David Blumenthal, President Obama s choice to be in charge of health information technology. Sarah Rubenstein writes, The Obama administration has tapped Harvard?s David Blumenthal to be its guru in...

Facebook and Kids

Posted on March 22, 2009
I am sure that many of your students are on facebook - perhaps even during your class. Apparently students start on facebook at quite young ages and some doctors are considering whether there are some downsides. Kari Henley at Huffingtonpost...

Genetically Modified Foods

Posted on March 21, 2009
CrooksandLiars has an interesting post about the new food safety law, the Food Safety Modernization Act, now pending in Congress and some of its implications for the future of genetically modified foods. The author notes, There?s been quite a bit...

Just for Fun: Sheep

Posted on March 20, 2009
From the HuffingtonPost.com, "BaaaStuds," a group of men who seem to have been contracted by Samsung, "took to the hills of Wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display." They...

What You Pay for Food and Your Weight

Posted on March 20, 2009
An article in Science Daily discusses a recent study appearing in the Milbank Quarterly that concluded that prices of food can impact obesity and lends support to those public policy folks who wish to tax or raise the price of...

Media Consortium on Health Care Topics

Posted on March 19, 2009
Lindsay Beyerstein provides a great review of the recent health topics making the news. She writes, Single-payer health insurance was a hot topic for independent media this week. The private health insurance industry has failed to contain costs and cover...

COBRA Revised

Posted on March 19, 2009
D Wreck at DailyKos helpfully provides a brief overview of some of the recent changes in COBRA. It might come in handy when discussing such lovely revisions with your health law class. The author writes, There are nearly 48 million...

Medical Malpractice Reform

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog notes a potential stumbling block on the road to health reform - medical malpractice reform. Sarah Rubenstein writes, The issue of medical malpractice lawsuits is among the touchiest in the debate over rising health-care...

The House's Health Care Reform Team

Posted on March 18, 2009
The New York Times' Robert Pear discusses the working group in the House of Representatives that is quietly working to build a consensus around a health reform proposal. He writes, Three powerful House committee chairmen have agreed to work together....

LATCRIT Annual Conference: Call for Papers and Panels

Posted on March 18, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS & PANELS OUTSIDERS INSIDE: CRITICAL OUTSIDER THEORY AND PRAXIS IN THE POLICYMAKING OF THE NEW AMERICAN REGIME American University-Washington College of Law Washington, D.C. October 1 - 4, 2009 Please join us at LatCrit XIV, the Fourteenth...

Fourteenth Annual LatCrit Conference: Call for Papers and Panels

Posted on March 17, 2009
LATCRIT XIV: Fourteenth Annual LatCrit Conference - www.latcrit.org CALL FOR PAPERS & PANELS OUTSIDERS INSIDE: CRITICAL OUTSIDER THEORY AND PRAXIS IN THE POLICYMAKING OF THE NEW AMERICAN REGIME American University - Washington College of Law Washington, DC October 1-4, 2009...

AIDS in Washington DC

Posted on March 17, 2009
The Washington Post reports on the AIDS epidemic in Washington, DC and notes that the spread of AIDS is most likely more widespread than current surveys show. Darryl Fears and Jose Antonio Vargas write, A report showing that 3 percent...

Regulating Medical Tourism

Posted on March 16, 2009
BNA's Health Law Reports has an interesting article on the increasing popularity of Medical Tourism and the need to address the risks posed by such medicine. Thom Wilder writes, While medical tourism continues to become a tremendous growth industry as...

Physicians Respond to Wyeth Ruling

Posted on March 15, 2009
AmNews has a brief story discussing physicians' responses to the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Wyeth state court warning label lawsuits against drug manufacturers are not preempted. Amy Sorrel writes, Some physicians say a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserves...

Million Women Study

Posted on March 14, 2009
The Guardian UK has an article about concerning the million women study being conducted by scientists at Oxford University. Sarah Boseley writes, Oh, the lure of a glass of chilled white wine at the end of a hard day. Or...

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