A Truthful Vaccine Consent Form – That No Mom Could Ever Sign
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.(1)
Those are the closing words of the first tenet of the Nuremberg Code - informed consent – and make no mistake about it - from the most personal of parental perspectives, vaccination’s a macabre experiment, every time: no parent can be certain that a vaccine won’t permanently disable her child.(2) Egregiously, the administering doctor or nurse - or CVS pharmacist - in no wa...
Source: vactruth.com - May 25, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Shawn Siegel Tags: Logical Shawn Siegel Top Stories informed consent Nuremberg Code Ronne study Vaccine Consent Form Source Type: blogs
As Employers Try To Avoid The Cadillac Tax, Treasury And The IRS Need To Act
When Congress passed the ACA, the law’s so-called Cadillac tax was touted as targeting lavish health plans, supposedly rare but costly. However, the economic reality today is that the excise tax will hurt everyday workers and the health benefits they have come to rely on.
Employers are actively trying to develop ways to avoid the non-deductible 40 percent tax on employer-sponsored plans valued over $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for family coverage, set to take effect in 2018. But in the process, those employers have begun to impose higher health costs on workers. The time for policymakers and regulators to ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 12, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Jorge Castro Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Cadillac tax Employer-Sponsored Insurance Excise tax health care IRS Source Type: blogs
Here's to the scrappers
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Source: Life is like a sandwich...enjoy the big bites. - May 9, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
Here's to the scrappers
Yesterday was a tough one. And yesterday was a great one - all in the same breath.Let me explain something...I'm the wife of an actor. I married my husband's auditions.Callbacks and gut feelings can trap you with a sense of hope that you always want to be careful not to mistake as the sure thing. It's the dusty dance of rejections and rejoicing.It's the fickle and sometimes mystical process of casting. And it is also the way we must let all things go after choices have been made...and settle in on, it's just the way it is.Anyone who has stayed the course in the arts knows this is the way it must be.For actors today it...
Source: Life is like a sandwich...enjoy the big bites. - May 9, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
Law, Religion, and Health in America
Discussion
E. J. Dionne, Jr., Columnist, The Washington Post; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Diane L. Moore, Senior Lecturer on Religious Studies and Education and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Frank Wolf, Representative, Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, 1981-2015 (retired)
Moderator: Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University and Director, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University&...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 24, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Can Safety-Net Hospital Systems Redesign Themselves To Achieve Financial Viability?
Safety-net hospital systems have long played a special role in the nation’s health care system by serving low-income, medically, and socially vulnerable patients regardless of their ability to pay. Beyond caring for people regardless of insurance coverage, safety-net systems provide comprehensive care to meet the needs of their diverse, complex patient populations, including culturally-responsive health and social services that other hospital systems do not.
As providers of last resort, some safety-net systems, especially public hospitals, are expected by their communities and by state and local governments to offer need...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 16, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Carol VanDeusen Lukas, Sally Holmes, and Michael Harrison Tags: All Categories Health Care Delivery Health Reform Hospitals Medicaid Medicare Policy Source Type: blogs
2016 US News & World Report – Best Health Law
This morning, US News & World Report issued its 2016 rankings of all law schools and law school programs. Here is the list of health law. This is the third year in a row, that Hamline has moved up, now to No. 13.
#1 St. Louis University#2 University of Maryland (Carey)#3 Georgia State University#4 Georgetown University#5 Boston University#6 Loyola University Chicago#7 Seton Hall University#8 Uni...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 10, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Interfering With Traumatic Memories of the Boston Marathon Bombings
The Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013 killed three people and injured hundreds of others near the finish line of the iconic footrace. The oldest and most prominent marathon in the world, Boston attracts over 20,000 runners and 500,000 spectators. The terrorist act shocked and traumatized and unified the city.What should the survivors do with their traumatic memories of the event? Many with disabling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) receive therapy to lessen the impact of the trauma. Should they forget completely? Is it possible to selectively “alter” or “remove” a specific memory? Studies in rodents a...
Source: The Neurocritic - January 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
High drug costs. Low drug costs. Each has a price.
This article originally appeared in Forbes.
Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Peter Ubel, MD Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
An Emerging Consensus: Medicare Advantage Is Working And Can Deliver Meaningful Reform
Conclusion
The success of Medicare Advantage in recent years is changing the conversation on Medicare reform. It is now possible to envision genuine bipartisan support for fair competition between MA plans and FFS. The “premium support” concept still engenders highly politicized opposition in some quarters. But support for the idea has also begun to cross ideological divides. At various points, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), former Clinton administration budget director Alice Rivlin, and Austin Frakt of Boston University (and prolific defender of the ACA) have all embraced the idea. Unlike others, they support...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 6, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Thomas Miller and James Capretta Tags: All Categories Competition Consumers Health Care Costs Insurance Medicare Payment Policy Quality Source Type: blogs
21st Century Cures Update: Ebola Hearing October 16, FDA's LDT Draft Guidance
This past July we wrote about the 21st Century Cures initiative and its efforts to bridge the gap between medical advances and the regulatory policies that govern them. The initiative, a bipartisan collaboration between Rep. Fred Upton (R–MI), chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative Diana DeGette (D–CO), one of the panel's senior Democrats, aims to examine the “full arc” of the innovation process to get new treatments and cures to patients more quickly and streamline the drug and device development process. Some of the initiative’s recent activity is summarized below.
Antibiotic resistance ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 10, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Establishing Vouchers For Veteran Health Care
Editor’s note: For more on this topic, stay tuned for additional Health Affairs Blog posts today from Jonathan Bush and Joel Kupersmith.
Recent disclosures of long wait times at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities that are presumed to lead to adverse patient outcomes have led to calls for reorganization. Possible reorganization approaches include privatization and the provision of vouchers to enrolled veterans. However, this discussion must recognize that Medicare already provides comprehensive services to the majority of VA patients.
Provider care coordination accompanied by financial incentives such ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 2, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Theodore Stefos and James Burgess Tags: All Categories Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Medicare Payment Veterans Source Type: blogs
Discontinuation of Crowdfunding Campaign for BSCiTS Study
It is with great regret that we announce that we are discontinuing the Behavioral Study of Cigarette and Tobacco Substitution (BSCiTS) fundraising campaign, and canceling the proposed study. For those of you who have donated to the campaign, your donations will be returned to you. Although we officially launched the BSCiTS campaign just a week ago, our team at Boston University has invested substantial intellectual, logistical, and spiritual effort into this project for more than a year. We truly believed this campaign would be a success, and we want to extend our sincere gratitude to those from the vaping community and e...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 27, 2014 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Rest of the Story Announces Fund-Raising Campaign for Research on Effectiveness of Electronic Cigarettes
As we've discussed here for the past several months, there’s a great debate about electronic cigarettes right now, involving consumers, public health officials, scientists, and doctors. The basic question is this—Do e-cigarettes helppeople fight their addiction to cigarettes, or do they actually make it more difficult for smokers to cut back or quit?For the past 25 years, I have conducted nearly 100 published studies about smoking, and as both a researcher and a physician, I have struggled to find effective ways to help smokers fight this powerful addiction. Along comes a product that—for the first time—might be ab...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 21, 2014 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Event Reminder: Advancing Global Health Policy
TweetPlease join us on Monday, September 8, when Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host a briefing to discuss our September 2014 thematic issue, “Advancing Global Health Policy.” In an expansion of last year’s theme, “The ‘Triple Aim’ Goes Global,” we explore how developing and industrialized countries around the world are confronting challenges and learning from each other on three aims: cost, quality, and population health.
A highlight of the event will be a discussion of international health policy—led by Weil—featuring former CMS and FDA administrator ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 5, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories Global Health Source Type: blogs
