Today in the blogosphere
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More About the Eye on FDA YouTube Channel
I really don't understand why more pharmas and more insurers aren't doing YouTube. If I were a large insurer, I would so open up a health channe...
(posted 7 hours, 50 minutes ago)
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Should Doctors and Pharmacists Have a Moral Objection to Treatment?
The Washington Post reports today that the California Supreme Court ruled day before yesterday that physicians do not have the right to withhold care ...
(posted 8 hours, 11 minutes ago)
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Lessons about consumer-driven health plans
A column in U.S.News & World Report reflects on how high-deductible, so-called consumer-driven health plans "often end up costing consumers more out-o...
(posted 8 hours, 31 minutes ago)
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BusinessWeek sends us Airborne
Many thanks to science and medical senior writer Cathy Arnst of BusinessWeek for the unexpected coverage online a couple of days ago in their Working ...
(posted 10 hours, 2 minutes ago)
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Yesterday, the Third Circuit decided Fellner v. Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, No. 07-1238, slip op. (3d Cir. Aug. 19, 2008) (link here).The case involves ou...
(posted 16 hours, 23 minutes ago)
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We admit it: We're as crazy as the next guy.Heck -- given that we spend nights and weekends feeding this blog, there's a pretty strong argument that w...
(posted 18 hours, 4 minutes ago)
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Special Report: The Dark Underside of Dog Breeding in New Jersey
Several months ago, my wife and daughter saw a “really adorable” dog at a school fundraising event. My wife asked the owner what typ...
(posted 1 day ago)
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Eye on FDA Opens Up YouTube Channel
It occurred to me that I can't keep harping on pharmaceutical companies to delve into the YouTube world unless I also do it myself and so Eye on FDA h...
(posted 1 day, 9 hours ago)
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Xylitol May Prevent Early Childhood Tooth Decay
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Craig Veltri In a recent clinical trial, researchers report a significant reduction of tooth decay in toddlers treated ...
(posted 1 day, 9 hours ago)
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Who can afford the newest drugs?
The Seattle Times reports on expensive new biotech drugs overwhelming patients and their insurance. Excerpt: For some patients, such new-generation d...
(posted 1 day, 9 hours ago)