Abort, Retry, Fail - Billionaire Bill Gates Opines, Sans Evidence, on ... the Efficacy of Hepatitis C Treatment?

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Abort, Retry, Fail - Billionaire Bill Gates Opines, Sans Evidence, on ... the Efficacy of Hepatitis C Treatment?

Unknown 7/15/2016 Komentar

If you needed advice about the technical characteristics of computer operating systems you probably would not go to your doctor for it.  So why would you seek the opinion of a software company mogul about the efficacy...

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Still No Questions Asked - Journalists Fail to Challenge Talking Points Used to Justify Million Dollar Plus Executive Compensation at New York Non-Profit Hospitals

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Still No Questions Asked - Journalists Fail to Challenge Talking Points Used to Justify Million Dollar Plus Executive Compensation at New York Non-Profit Hospitals

Unknown 6/29/2016 Komentar

It's deja vu all over again. I even get to reuse the introduction of a post from one month ago.  As I wrote in May, 2016,... The problem of ever rising, amazingly generous pay for top health care managers is a...

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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Still Conflicted After All These Years

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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Still Conflicted After All These Years

Unknown 6/03/2016 Komentar

Background: Untrustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines Since the 1990s, clinicians have been exhorted to follow clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to improve their decision-making and patients' outcomes.  When Dr Wally...

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Are You Ready for Some (Political) Football? - the NFL, Concussion Research, the NIH, and the Revolving Door

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Are You Ready for Some (Political) Football? - the NFL, Concussion Research, the NIH, and the Revolving Door

Unknown 5/27/2016 Komentar

Probably because it involved the favorite American sport, the controversy about the risk of concussions to professional National Football League (NFL) players, and how the NFL has handled the issue is very well known. ...

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New Jersey Confidential: the Almost Secret Membership of the RWJ Barnabas Health Board

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New Jersey Confidential: the Almost Secret Membership of the RWJ Barnabas Health Board

Unknown 5/15/2016 Komentar

A Hospital System Tries to Hide its Board of Trustees The US Internal Revenue Service mandates disclosure of the membership of boards of trustees of non-profit corporations.  Nonetheless, as reported by New Brunswick...

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

Unknown 3/31/2016 Komentar

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of "misbranding" Oxycontin.  The case appeared to be a landmark.  In previous...

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