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The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics |
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Written by Melody Petersen
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By the time Melody Petersen gets around to interviewing Iowa’s state nosologist near the end of “Our Daily Meds,” the facts that she cites don’t even sound that grim. The nosologist’s job is to catalog Iowa’s deceased according to cause of death. He processes about 27,000 death certificates a year. And by his reckoning there were only five deaths caused by adverse reactions to prescription drugs in 2002. That low figure is jarringly out of whack with Ms. Petersen’s investigative reporting in an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.
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Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare |
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Written by Sara Robinson - ourfuture.org
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Mythbusting Canadian Health Care - Part I
In the universal health care debate, Canada is once again getting dragged into the fracas, shoved around by both sides as either an exemplar or a warning - and, along the way, getting coated with the obfuscating dust of so many willful misconceptions that the actual facts about How Canada Does It are completely obscured in the melee.
As a health-care-card-carrying Canadian resident and an uninsured American citizen who regularly sees doctors on both sides of the border, I'm in a unique position to address the pros and cons of both systems first-hand
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Montana woman wins $5.3 million bad-faith insurance verdict |
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Written by TRISTAN SCOTT of the Missoulian
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At $5.3M, bad-faith decision is largest: Bigfork ecologist sued over crash benefits - Original URL
A U.S. District Court jury in Missoula awarded a Bigfork woman $5.3 million in damages earlier this month in the largest bad-faith insurance verdict in Montana history.
After a five-day trial and eight hours of deliberation, the jury of one man and six women ruled unanimously against Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., deciding that the California-based company acted in bad faith and breach of contract in denying Samantha Chilcote's insurance claim.
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Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study Finds |
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Written by ScienceDaily
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A new study by two YorkUniversity researchers
estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice
as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the
industry's claim. (Credit: iStockphoto/Marcelo Wain)
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2008) — A new study by two York University researchers
estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on
promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry’s
claim.
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The Patient Privacy Toolkit |
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Written by Ashley Katz
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In
2007 your letters to Congress, your calls to your senators, your
donations and your support made a difference! Patient Privacy Rights
is ready to roll up our sleeves and make 2008 a year for restoring our
control over who can see our personal health
information.
AND WE HAVE
SOMETHING FOR YOU!
To
help you start the New Year, we created the ‘Patient
Privacy’ Toolkit. Use
the toolkit to control your private health records from the
ground up and
fight for your privacy from the top down.
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Bare Your Private Health Info to the World |
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Written by http://www.patientprivacyrights.org
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Your private health information is not private. The so-called new "privacy laws" accomplished nothing other than more paperwork for you. They do not prevent hospitals, pharmacies and insurers from selling everything they know about you to the highest bidder.
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A bigger bottom line for nursing homes |
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Written by Jordan Rau, Los Angeles Times
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Facilities receive more Medi-Cal funding, but few of the promised improvements are made, a study says
SACRAMENTO -- -- California nursing homes bolstered their bottom lines with much of the $590 million that state lawmakers provided them to better tend to the poor, while patient care declined by several key measures, according to a study to be released today.
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Third World Clinic, First World Country |
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Written by SARA CORBETT
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Patients Without Borders
Long before the dentists and the doctors got there, before the nurses, the hygienists and X-ray techs came, before anyone had flicked on the portable mammography unit or sterilized the day's first set of surgical instruments, the people who needed them showed up to wait. It was 3 a.m. at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Virginia - Friday, July 20, 2007 - the start of a rainy Appalachian morning. Outside the gates, people lay in their trucks or in tents pitched along the grassy parking lot, waiting for their chance to have their medical needs treated at no charge - part of an annual three-day "expedition" led by a volunteer medical relief corps called Remote Area Medical.
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Medicare Drug Plan Comparison |
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Written by John Metz
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Now there is a government supplied web site with which you can find
actual details of various Medicare Part D Drug Plans available in your area, along with specific data of whether they cover your medicines. The site will estimate your annual costs, so you can compare it with your non-plan expenses. There are additional savings if you buy every 3 months by mail.
You can join such a plan between today and 12/31/07, so take a look at it if you want to join one: http://www.medicare.gov/MPDPF/
Warning: Any plan can cancel coverage of any drug at a week's notice, but you're still obligated to pay the monthly fee for the full year.
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