Monday, January 3, 2011

Some Call it "Tyranny" - Top Leaders of University of California (Including Leaders of Academic Medicine) Demand Bigger Pensions for Themselves

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The state of California, and its flagship university system, the University of California, have been under extreme financial pressure lately...

BLOGSCAN - Health IT Debacle Down Under?

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From the blog " Australian Health Information Technology " by Dr David More MB, PhD, FACHI: Monday, January 03, 2011 NSW Health H...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

New York Times: The Doctor vs. the Moron

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A stunning story was published in the New York Times: December 30, 2010, 10:19 am The Doctor vs. the Computer By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Elect...

BLOGSCAN - On Device Company's Obfuscation of the Reasons for Payments to Surgeons

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On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog, Dr Howard Brody analyzed further the case of the huge royalties paid to spine surgeons by ...

BLOGSCAN - Wandering in the Wilderness

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On the 1 Boring Old Man blog, "Mickey," the anonymous blogger, a retired academic psychiatrist, posted about how he figured out t...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Former NIH Director Spins Through Revolving Door, Ends Up at Sanofi-Aventis

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A bit of news that got little attention this month was a new job for the former head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Dr Elia...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Spine Surgeons Reticent About Disclosing Huge Medtronic Payments

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Starting in 2007, we posted ( here , here , here , here and here ) about the payments, often huge, that five manufacturers of prosthetic jo...