Everything We Are Doing in Health Policy May Be Completely Wrong
A relatively obscure paper (gated) published in an academic journal the other day was completely ignored by the mainstream media. Yet if the study findings hold and if they apply…
PPACA Waivers: New Nonsense From John Sununu
For some reason the Boston Globe devotes its top slot on today’s Opinion page to a tired and faulty argument (If a law doesn’t work, waive it away?) from former…
Health Information Technology Tweeps to Watch: The #HIT100 List
Michael Planchart, aka @theEHRguy, put out the call last month for nominations to the #HIT100, intended to be a list of key health IT folk engaged in social media. The…
RAM (Remote Area Medical) Free Clinic in Virginia Sees Over 4000 Patients
This was a 3 day event with those who have either no insurance or those without enough insurance to receive both free medical and dental care. 1700 volunteers showed to…
Health Care Buzz Today
Two Drugs for Dementia Ineffective. The antidepressants most often prescribed to treat depression in dementia patients provide no appreciable relief, and may raise the risk for serious side effects, new…
Walter Reed Army Hospital To Close Its Doors
The hospital is closing it’s doors and will be combined with the National Naval Medical Center and this is slated to cost around $2 billion, more than what had been…
Filtering versus Overload : Information and Content in The Digital Age
Clay Shirky presents us with a very interesting take home from his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo held recently in NY. The concept that there is far too…
Pharmacy Benefit Managers vs Physicians: Let the Games Begin!
As a gastroenterologist, I treat hundreds of patients with heartburn. You already know the names of the medicines I prescribe, since they are advertised day and night on television and…
Crowd-Sourcing in Clinical Development
Guest Post from Tomasz Sablinski, MD, PhD FDA’s Janet Woodcock recently testified to a subcommittee of the House of Representatives that drug approvals in 2011 may be headed for…
Scientific Advances on Contraceptive for Men
This blog is largely about texting and health and as much as I love to find new and interesting facts and figures about the later, it's time to start…
