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Citing Ohio heparin deaths, Sen. Brown has more questions for FDA on import safety
Posted by Becky Martin, NPA Project Manager June 29, 2011 at 9:00 PM
This article is cross-posted from POSTSCRIPT – A Blog by Community Catalyst, originally publish at http://postscript.communitycatalyst.org/?p=2870 Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown says he’s disturbed that 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients in U.S. drugs are foreign-made, saying that has allowed drug companies to “skirt existing regulations” and “outsource drug safety standards.” “Drug company profits cannot come [...]
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ACA’s Passage Associated with Reduced Budget Deficits
Posted by Mark Ryan, MD June 27, 2011 at 9:58 PM
A quick post to address this interesting note: health care reform has changed Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections for the budget. Prior to the passage of health care reform, health care costs would increase above 100% of GDP in approximately 2040 and then accelerate rapidly after that. After the passage of the Affordable Care Act [...]
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Doctors Not Powerless in Face of Supreme Court Ruling
Posted by David Evans, MD June 24, 2011 at 12:38 AM
The United States Supreme Court recently struck down the Vermont law that prohibits the use of physicians’ prescribing data for pharmaceutical marketing. The practice known as “data mining” occurs when third party corporations purchase prescribing information from pharmacies and match it to individual doctors through a 44 million dollar deal with the AMA to utilize [...]
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