• Avastin, ye swabs!

    Piracy is alive and well in a most peculiar area: the pharmaceutical  industry. According to recent reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, counterfeit Avastin, an anti-Cancer drug used in colon and breast cancer, has turned...

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  • What is the Iron Triangle of Health Care?

    OK. I’m going to turn you all into Health Care analysts by introducing the concept of The Iron Triangle of Health Care. The Iron Triangle is a mechanism used to assess health care systems of all kinds....

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  • Another Voice, A Familiar Face

    After posting yesterday, I caught up with a similar article on health care costs and reform in the January 4, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association authored by Ezekiel Emmanuel. M.D.,PhD. Dr. Emmanuel...

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  • A Voice of Sanity in the Sea of Babble

    A colleague of mine at LancNews http://newslanc.com/ brought to my attention a very well-written piece by Dr. Arnold Relman, the former editor-in-chief of the New England, one of the most prestigious medical periodicals in the United States. The...

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  • Brewing Tea: The HHS Mandate on Women’s Health

    It is a sign of what ails journalism that trying to find out what exactly is in the new Health and Human Services Mandate is a challenge. Opinion is everywhere, and it is trampling factual information. Hard...

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