If you missed last week's live webcast of the Kaiser Family Foundation's town hall event with U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby, an archived version …
Category: Health Policy
Denialism
OK. So I beat Jon Stewart to an interview with Michael Specter. If you're interested in considering how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, you should …
How efficient should medicine be in the business sense?
Marya Zilberberg, MD, wonders on KevinMD about how efficient medicine should be: ...I worry that in our traditional American single-minded zeal we will go overboard …
Taxing cosmetic surgery
As the overhaul of the nation's health care system continues on Capitol Hill, some of the debate has the pop of prime-time medical dramas. One …
First human embryonic stem cell lines approved for funding under new guidelines
President Obama galvanized the research community on March 9 of this year, when he called for a new, much-less restrictive set of guidelines for federal …
Health-reform bill aims to benefit breastfeeding moms
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog highlights this morning an interesting detail in the U.S. Senate's health-reform bill. The legislation contains a provision that would …
Interactive chart illustrates the cost of chronic health conditions
GE has built a fascinating interactive chart that attempts to illustrate the costs of chronic health conditions. In developing the chart, the GE combined the …
Q&A on bioethics and policy with Stanford law expert
Stanford law professor Hank Greely, JD, recently hosted a discussion on Facebook as part of Stanford Open Office Hours. In the latest installment of Open …
The NY Times: a medical culture clash
Today's New York Times has two excellent articles that give some depth, analysis and perspecive to what happened this week in the public debacle over …
More evidence that seasonal flu vaccine protects against H1N1
A week ago, I noted that being old enough to have experienced earlier forms of the H1N1 influenza strain that were circulating prior to 1958 …
Effectiveness research ignites prairie fire
Comparative effectiveness research has had a bad week. CER, a scientific analysis to determine what treatments, drugs and medical devices are most effective, has been …
New initiatives show how federal stimulus dollars advance scientific and medical research
Stanford's medical school just unveiled a new Web site featuring stories, interviews, and videos that illustrate how research funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment …
Health economists give Obama their two cents on reform
Yesterday afternoon, a group of prominent economists - including two from Stanford's medical school - delivered a letter to President Obama on health reform and …
Stanford professor taking questions from public on bioethics and policy
Stanford law professor Hank Greely, JD, will host an interactive, public discussion on Facebook, as part of Stanford Open Office Hours. Greely is an expert …
Don't add buzz to the booze, says FDA
It's not OK to use caffeine as an additive in alcoholic drinks, the FDA told 30 beverage manufacturers last week. About time. During the five-year …
Book highlights accomplishments of NIH's female scientists
The NIH recently announced a new publication featuring the achievements of 289 female scientists working at the institute. In the book, "Women in Science at …