Medical/Drugs

DEMS VS. DEMS ON MEDICAID

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com by  Avik Roy October 5, 2011 12:00 P.M. A lawsuit on the new Supreme Court docket has divided the party. I’ve spilt many pixels writing about the constitutional challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which are now nearly certain to end up in the just-commenced 2011–12 term of

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PERRY SAYS VACCINE ORDER OF GARDASIL WAS MISTAKE

AUGUST 18, 2011 By ALICIA MUNDY Texas Gov. Rick Perry, under questioning from voters in recent days, has switched positions on a 2007 executive order he issued mandating the vaccination of all young girls before they enter sixth grade to ward off cervical cancer. Mr. Perry’s order that Texas school girls receive the vaccine, Gardasil,

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GE MOVING X-RAY UNIT TO BEIJING

GE moving X-ray unit to Beijing Updated: 2011-07-26 07:51 By Li Woke (China Daily) A General Electric Co employee at the healthcare unit’s production facility in Beijing assembles a medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. Nelson Ching / Bloomberg BEIJING – General Electric Co’s healthcare sector will move its X-ray global headquarters to Beijing from

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A DANGEROUS MEDICARE PROPOSAL

JULY 26, 2011 Price controls on Part D drugs would cripple medical innovation and undermine a successful federal entitlement program. By TOMAS J. PHILIPSON Medicare Part D, the prescription-drug benefit program for seniors, has cost the federal government considerably less than was initially estimated. It’s also overwhelmingly popular among beneficiaries. But in Washington, Part D

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BREAST CANCER – A SECOND AVASTIN OPINION

JULY 23, 2011 Oncologists vs. the FDA on the breast cancer drug. The humanitarians urging the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw Avastin for women with terminal breast cancer claim there is no other choice: The evidence shows Avastin doesn’t work, so too bad. But how to square that view with the highly respected medical

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WILL WASHINGTON FIND THE CURE FOR CANCER?

JULY 13, 2011 Government boards and drug price controls threaten to throw sand in the gears of medical progress. By KENNETH C. FRAZIER Mr. Frazier is president and CEO of Merck & Co. Americans generally agree that our economic future depends on nurturing new ideas. “The first step in winning the future,” as President Obama

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WE CAN’T AFFORD TO TRAIN FEWER DOCTORS

JULY 12, 2011 The savings from government funding cuts to graduate medical education aren’t worth the negative effect on patients. By HERBERT PARDES AND EDWARD D. MILLERDr. Pardes is president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Miller is dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine Seeking to reduce the federal budget, Democratic and Republican

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