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Long After the Start of the "War on Terror," a Conflict of Interest about an Anthrax Scare Comes to Light
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3:23 PM
In May, David Willman writing for the Los Angeles Times broke a story of a somewhat new variant on the conflict of interest theme, one that...
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GlaxoSmithKline
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Human Genome Sciences
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More Cause for Hope - After Novartis Chairman's Rescinded Golden Parachute, Swiss Voters Give Control of Hired Executives' Salaries Back to Owners
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8:47 AM
Recently, we discussed the latest stupefyingly big golden parachute given to a departing pharmaceutical executive. Former Novartis CEO an...
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executive compensation
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government
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managers' coup d'etat
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Novartis
Another Reason for Hope? - Concern about Excessive Executive Pay in Health Care Goes Mainstream
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9:35 AM
Another recent case suggested that the problem of excess, disproportionate compensation of health care executives is becoming more of a mai...
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government
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hospital systems
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politics
If gov't officials can't deal with bendy bananas, curvy cucumbers and water for hydration, how can they possibly consider issues with computers?
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3:46 PM
I present this story with almost no commentary except this post's title, the simple observation that keeping government out of many aspe...
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core incompetence
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government
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding...