All health-care systems have ‘death panels’ of one sort or another | Full Comment | National Post
Via @medskep on twitter:
Many scoff at the term “death panel” — Sarah Palin’s morbid, if misleading description of the powers contained in U.S. government health-care legislation back in 2009. Yet there was a grain of truth in that infamous noun phrase. The fact of the matter is that all health-care systems have “death panels” of one sort or another. It’s just a question of who sits on them — bureaucrats, insurers or doctors — and what label we put on their functions.
via All health-care systems have ‘death panels’ of one sort or another | Full Comment | National Post.
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Source: GruntDoc - May 5, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Policy Source Type: blogs
CorpWatch : Medical Trial Data Activists Score Win Over Glaxo
Pills. Photo: e-magineart.com. Used under Creative Commons licenseAll data on completed medical experiments are to be made available to the general public by GlaxoSmithKline, the biggest UK pharmaceutical company. The announcement is a major win for the AllTrials campaign mounted by healthcare activists as well as researchers that has gathered widespread support. “There is a fundamental lack of scientific progress because clinical trial evidence is being withheld,” Carl Heneghan, the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford said when the campaign was launched last month. “The mis...
Source: PharmaGossip - February 8, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
