Health Care Renewal

Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy needed to advance health and welfare. Advocating for accountability, integrity, transparency, honesty and ethics in leadership and governance of health care.

Health Care Renewal

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California Departin' - University of California President Steps Down

BLOGSCAN - the Faults of CME by MECC

BLOGSCAN - Why Medical Students Don't Like Primary Care

How Albany Became Part of Hartford, and Toledo, Ohio, Became Part of Michigan - the US Congress Makes Hospital-Specific Earmarks

King-Harbor Hospital Closing

BLOGSCAN - A Drug Manufacturer Asks a University President to Lobby on its Behalf

BLOGSCAN - "Dangerous Ideas"

Newspaper Publisher Joins Board of Medical Center - Just a Potential Conflict of Interest?

BLOGSCAN - CME as Stealth Marketing

BLOGSCAN - LA Times Series on Physicians and Pharma

Hospital IT: Amateurs welcome?

More Unfortunate Details About Targeted Genetics' Fatal tgAAC94 Trial

After the Wellmark College of Public Health, Can the "Pizza Hut School of Nutrition" Be Far Behind?

Re-Examining the Suppression of the Trasylol Study

BLOGSCAN - Interview with Pfizer Anti-Viral Drug Marketing Whistleblower

BLOGSCAN - Imagine No Commercially Sponsored CME

How the Legal Case Against Purdue for Deceptive Marketing of Oxycontin was Nearly Derailed

More Bloggers Address Pfizer's Marketing of Viracept and Maraviroc

BLOGSCAN - How MECCs Tweak CME in Favor of their Sponsor's Product

Another Death in a Gene Therapy Trial

The AMA, "Prescription Data-Mining," In-Store Clinics, and Patients' and Physicians' Interests

BLOGSCAN - FDA Panels Violate New Conflict of Interest Rules

"Happy Accidents" in pharma doubtful: Tax Break Used by Drug Makers Failed to Add Jobs

BLOGSCAN - Maggie Mahar on the Provenge Mess

Hip Protectors and Conflicts of Interest

Naming a University Teaching Hospital for a Pharmaceutical Company

BLOGSCAN - When Scientists Disagree with Managers: "You Want Democracy? Go to Russia"

Intel's former CEO, EHR's for his horses, and Equus asinus