Physician Payment Sunshine: DC Transparency Report, State Transparency Law Updates
ScienceDaily recently reported physician and hospital payments from pharmaceutical companies for the District of Columbia in 2011. The data was reported by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), which found that pharmaceutical companies spent nearly $84 million marketing pharmaceuticals in the DC, slightly less than 2010.
DC publishes their annual reports through a separate webpage hosted through it's Department of Health, dedicated to Prescription Drug Marketing Costs. Here's the 2011 report, which for some reason was not published until early March ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Deadly Over-Doses and Private Equity - the Case of Bain Capital's Methadone Clinics
Some reporting by Bloomberg provides more evidence about what happens when direct care of the most vulnerable patients is commercialized. The vulnerable patients in this case were narcotic addicts.By way of introduction, one method of treating narcotic addiction is the use of methadone. Methadone is a narcotic that may block the "high" produced by other narcotics and thus may lead to the abuse of these drugs. Because methadone is long-acting and can be given orally in liquid form, methadone clinics traditionally provided patients one dose a day which they swallowed on the spot. The methadone would p...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Bain Capital narcotics adverse effects private equity CRC Health Source Type: blogs
Journal alert: New issue of Neuropsychologia
This study sought to determine > specific brain activities that contribute to differentiating two > culture-specific tonal structures. We recorded magnetoencephalogram > (MEG) responses of bimusical Japanese nonmusicians and amateur musicians > as they monitored unfamiliar Western melodies and unfamiliar, but > traditional, Japanese melodies, both of which contained tonal deviants > (out-of-key tones). Previous studies with Western monomusicals have > shown that tonal deviants elicit an early right anterior negativity > (mERAN) originating in the inferior frontal cortex. In the present > study, t...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - January 31, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
For the strongest temporary crowns and bridges: Kettenbach adds Visalys® Temp to its portfolio
Huntington Beach, CA, January 21, 2013 – Dental products specialist Kettenbach LP (www.kettenbach.com) has introduced new Visalys® Temp. With this development, Kettenbach sets new materials standards for provisional crowns and bridges. Visalys®Temp ensures demonstrably stronger temporaries that are highly aesthetic and more fracture-resistant and manufactured without BPA. Scientific studies at the University of Erlangen and extensive user testing have confirmed these properties. A dental laboratory needs one to four weeks to fabricate a permanent bridge or crown. Temporary crowns or bridges are made for this period so ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - January 30, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Hey Hey Woody Guthrie: About his wife Marjorie
Thanks to Dr. Ken Bergman over in the Biology Department for passing on this Pdf (
Download MarjorieGuthrie_844) on about Marjorie Guthrie, wife of Woody Guthrie, mother to Arlo and Nora, and grandmother to one of our former students. Marjorie worked hard on helping others with Huntington's Disease which Woody died from and was quite a remarkable woman in her own right. (Source: Asperger's Conversations)
Source: Asperger's Conversations - January 26, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Larry Welkowitz Source Type: blogs
