Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Ann Romney volunteers to lobby against Trump's proposed NIH ...

AOL-8 hours ago
Ann Romney, wife of former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has spoken out against President Trump's proposed funding cuts ...

After Losing Son, Mother Urges Congress to Save NIH Funding

Fox Business-46 minutes ago
The mother of Chad Carr, the grandson of former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr who died at age 5 in 2015 of a rare form of pediatric ...
Mom Tells Son's Story in Fight for NIH Funding
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth-3 hours ago

“'The government has caught on to these compounding pharmacies and the ability to make large amount of money large amounts of money from compounded drugs,' said attorney Nicole Knox. The indictment says postal workers hurt on the job were prescribed a compounding cream costing up to $28,000 per container between May 2014 and March 2017. Three doctors wrote nearly 18,000 prescriptions to postal employees from North Texas for the pain cream."


Eight in North Texas indicted for health care fraud
“The government has caught on to these compounding pharmacies and the ability to make large amount of money large amounts of money from .
D Magazine: Dr. Death; Plano surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel

Matt Goodman of D Magazine reports on ex-neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch and the yearslong investigation into dozens of botched surgeries that resulted in two deaths and multiple cases of paralysis. 
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Physician Payment News: Doctors Get Disciplined For Misconduct; Drug Firms Keep Paying Them

From Jessica Huseman of ProPublica: Hundreds of pharmaceutical and medical device companies continue to pay doctors as promotional speakers and advisers after they've been disciplined for serious misconduct, according to an analysis by ProPublica. 
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Talk to Democrats about health care, Kasich urges GOP

The Columbus Dispatch-9 hours ago
Talk to Democrats about health care, Kasich urges GOP ... down a GOP effort to reform health care and repeal the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare.

Bernie Sanders Is Calling for a 'Public Option' in Health Care

ATTN (blog)-15 hours ago
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, the senator said he supports a single-payer health care system that guarantees coverage for all U.S. citizens through a ...

Could Democrats and Trump Work Together on Health Care?

Slate Magazine-19 hours ago
The American Health Care Act was pronounced DOA on Friday afternoon, a remarkable defeat for President Trump and a major victory for the American public ...