Category Archives: Health Care
SFGate.com Mark Fiore wins Pulitzer for animated editorials
Acknowledgment of the brilliant, self-syndicated animator sets the tone for how the web can be used effectively by large print news organizations. Plus, Obama could have used Dogboy and Mr. Dan.
Another reason to reform employment-linked healthcare: the explosion in temporary employment
When you go from corporate beneficiary to free agent, employment-linked health insurance doesn’t look too good anymore.
The new NHS sexual health hub: Could you imagine this happening in the US?
Sex for socialists?
Quackwatch founder Stephen Barrett takes on health care reform myths
Insurance Reform Watch – “All this garbage needs to be debunked,” [Barrett's colleague Dr John] Hammond says, pointing to one claim that older Americans will lose access to their doctors if more people are covered. “That’s so morally bankrupt you can’t even begin to consider it as a rational response.
Billionaires For Bush now against healthcare reform
Over 850 citizens converged on the campus of North Carolina Central University in Durham for a health care reform town hall discussion led by Congressman David Price (D-NC4).
LugerFest 2009: Ed Brayton, Isis, and the legendary 40 oz porterhouse
Be scared. Be very scared.
WSJ Health Blog and NYT ‘Well’ Tie for 2nd Place in AHCJ Excellence Online
Congratulations to Tara Parker-Pope, Scott Hensley, Jacob Goldstein, and Sarah Rubenstein
“Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)” is not a single “thing”
So-called alternative medicine advocates have raped my field of natural products, co-opting things that work as “alternative” to justify study of approaches that challenge the basic tenets of physics. My two most-admired blog mentors hold forth on the issues. The bottom line for me: let’s pay for studies of approaches that have basic science support rather than fund multimillion-dollar clinical shots in the dark.
Why I think Sanjay Gupta is a good pick for Surgeon General
PharmGirl just sent me this tip after I got out of a meeting but I see that some bloggers have already weighed in about Obama’s apparent selection of Dr Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General. PalMD was briefly positive but PZ is concerned that Gupta is merely a talking head or placeholder and an apologist for […]
Congratulations to top Denver docs
Friends of Pharmboy fare fabulously.
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