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Should doctors fire young patients if their parents refuse to vaccinate them?
Originally published in MedPage Todayby Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today Washington CorrespondentIf parents refuse to vaccinate their children, it’s ethical and legal to dismiss the child as a patient, a pediatrician told attendees of the American Aca...
How a nursing student got expelled for blogging
Here’s an example of how health care professionals should not blog.Michelle Fabio writes, in a guest post on Better Health, about the travails of a nursing student, who blogged about watching a patient give birth:When school officials read [nursing ...
Should doctors fire children if their parents refuse to vaccinate them?
Originally published in MedPage Todayby Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today Washington CorrespondentIf parents refuse to vaccinate their children, it’s ethical and legal to dismiss the child as a patient, a pediatrician told attendees of the American Aca...
What if newspapers reported science the way they cover the World Series?
by Larry Husten, Ph.D.October brings the Nobel Prize announcements and the World Series. No one will mistake media coverage of one for the other. Each Nobel Prize will get one article and 10 seconds on the evening news. A soft feature will quote the new N...
Special Report: Can Innovation Supplant Convention in Sarcoidosis Treatment?
“I’d love there to be a better agent,” says a thought leader on the current state of sarcoidosis treatment Many sarcoidosis patients require little or no treatment, but patients with chronic disease need a therapy that is safer than the corticostero...
Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement in India
Faced with a dramatic slowdown in sales in mature pharmaceutical markets, multinational pharmaceutical companies are looking to substantially increase their sales in India and other emerging markets The Indian market is growing by more than 10% per year, ...
Pharmaceutical Mergers and Acquisitions
Pharmaceutical Mergers and Acquisitions guides you to build an M&A plan that focuses on key goals, avoids costly mistakes, and realizes deal potential as quickly as possible CEI designed this study to identify the primary drivers of M&A activity Through t...
When patients receive too much radiation from CT scans by mistake
Originally published in MedPage Todayby Crystal Phend, MedPage Today Senior Staff WriterReports of stroke patients who were accidentally exposed to eight times the normal radiation dose during diagnostic CT scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Ange...
Biopharma Quarter: Key Trends and Events of the Second Quarter of 2009
The first Phase 0 trial results, the first fruits of Japan’s biosimilar pathway, the first straightforward use of the social marketing tool Twitter to advance a drug franchise, the first moves of the EU to regulate third-party mentions of pharmaceutical...
The 111th U.S. Congress Tackles Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry
In this report, we feature a commentary by Alex M Brill, CEO of Matrix Global Advisors and a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who testifi ed before the U S House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts and Competition on July 1...
How emotional stress affects physician training
Much has been made of fatigue increasing the number of medical errors doctors make.But what about other factors, like emotional stress?That’s a little-reported issue that Pauline Chen addresses in her recent New York Times column. In residency, som...
Will co-sleeping with your infant increase the risk of SIDS?
Originally published in MedPage Todayby Todd Neale, MedPage Today Staff WriterJust over half — 54% — of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases in southwest England occurred when the baby was co-sleeping in the same bed as a parent, a case-c...
Why doctors should choose Google Android over the iPhone for medical apps
by Jeff BrandtVerizon, Motorola, and Google, along with 9 other cell phone manufactures and countless world carriers, have teamed up to provide a smartphone with the power to deliver useful applications for medicine: the Verizon “Droid” smartphone, ba...
China Pharmaceutical Chain Industry Report, 2009
According to the chain drug stores ranking in China in 2009, top 100 enterprises in China pharmaceutical chain industry achieved the sales revenue of RMB57 24 billion in 2008, increasing by RMB13 33 billion (30 35%) than RMB43 91 billion in 2007 In 2008, ...
China Pharmaceutical Chain Industry Report, 2009
According to the chain drug stores ranking in China in 2009, top 100 enterprises in China pharmaceutical chain industry achieved the sales revenue of RMB57 24 billion in 2008, increasing by RMB13 33 billion (30 35%) than RMB43 91 billion in 2007 In 2008, ...
The numbers behind young, healthy people dying from H1N1 flu
Originally published in Insidermedicine Young, otherwise healthy people who contract H1N1 flu can rapidly deteriorate into a critically ill state in a manner that is eerily reminiscent of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to research published in t...
Interruptions when doctors see patients and how that affects care
Getting interrupted while in the doctor’s office can be annoying, both for the patient and physician.In an essay in The New York Times, pediatrician Rahul Parikh notes that, in an average primary care office visit, doctors were interrupted twice. A...
