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NPA in the News

 Note: Entries appear chronologically, with most recent at the bottom

• “No Free Lunch,” Pitt Medicine profile of NPA board member Dave Evans whose practice refuses gifts, visits, and samples from pharmaceutical detailers
• op-ed by Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) cited the NPA’s support of the Health Partnership Act (3/3/07, Chillico Gazette)
• "Healthcare Activists Call on Congress to Fund War on AIDS", Medical News Today (3/13/07)
• “Prescription for Conflict” (3/17/07, Journal News)
• Maine Public Radio (3/27/07) interview with NPA Campaign leader Ben Schaefer on the NPA’s support of a prescription privacy bill pending in the Maine legislature
• "As drug companies push their pills over TV, some are asking: Is that good for your health?" Columbia News Service (4/1/08)
• Editorial voicing the NPA’s support of a bill before the Maine legislature: LD 838, An Act Protecting the Confidentiality of Prescription Information  (4/13/07, Kennebec Journal)
• “Doctors, Lawmakers Resist Drugmakers’ Prying Eyes,” Washington Post (5/22/07) A01
• FDA Week- coverage regarding New Hampshire ruling on prescription data mining
• “Controversy erupts over pharmaceutical marketing policies,” Dental Tribune
• “Law Targets Drug Marketing Practices” Hudson Valley Business News (6/12/07)
• “AMA Faces Storm on Data Sales,” Chicago Tribune (6/24/07)
• “Prescription Mining Raises Millions for Doctors' Group,” San Francisco Chronicle (7/25/07)
• “Drug Industry Mines Physicians’ Data to Boost Sales,” NPR Morning Edition (6/26/07)
• "Opinion Piece Criticizes Sale of Physician Prescribing Data," Kaiser Family Foundation (7/26/07)
• ReachMD, XM Satellite Radio
• "Physicians Should Opt-Out," Bangor Daily News (9/13/07)
• "States Move to Close Drug Data Mining," NPR Marketplace (10/2/07)
• "Improving Health Care or Invading Privacy?" Fosters.com & Laconia (NH) Citizen (9/30/07)
• "Putting a Stop to Pharmaceutical Datamining," op-ed in Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal (9/30/07)
• "Groups Back Physician Gift Disclosure Measure," Congressional Quarterly HealthBeat (10/23/07)
• Profile of Lydia Vaias , NPA Board President, in the alumni magazine of Temple University School of Medicine (Fall 07)
• "Dr. Drug Rep," NYT Magazine (11/25/07)
• "Doctor Combats Pull of Drug Reps" St. Petersburg Times (12/27/07)
• "Gathering Data on Docs," PhillyBurbs.com (1/20/08)
• "Give Doctors and Patients Privacy," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2/7/08)
• Letter to Editor re: FDA rules on off-label promotions , New York Times (2/23/08)
• "Datamining Should get the Shaft," Seattle Times (2/26/08)
• "Bill Makes it Illegal for Drug Makers to buy Prescription Data for Marketing," Tacoma News Tribune (2/26/08)
• "Physician Gifting Crackdown," Pharmaceutical Executive (3/26/08)
• "Rx 'Data  Mining' Legislation Awaits Action in CA, Dies in WA State," Drug Benefit News (4/04/08)
• "Waiting for Health Care," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (4/16/08)
• Letter to Editor re: MA Senate Gift Ban proposal, Boston Herald, (4/21/08)
• Letter to Editor re: Gifts to Physicians, New York Times, (4/22/08)
• Letter to Editor re: ghostwriting and gifts to physicians, Baltimore Sun (4/25/08)
• "Bill Would Let Pharmacies Sell Medical Records," San Francisco Chronicle (5/28/08)
• "Bill Aims to Cure Costly Side Effects of Doctor Gifts," Public News Service (5/28/08)
• "Medical Professionals Line Up in Support of SB 1137,"  PA Health Access Network (6/23/08)
• "Gift Ban Bill Gains Backers," Boston Globe (6/24/08)
• "Groups Push Health Care," Rocky Mountain News (7/8/2008)
• "Group Kicks of $25 Million Ad Campaign for Health Care" Seattle Post Intelligencer (7/8/08)
• "Curbs eyed for Sales of W.VA. Info to Drug Makers," CNNMoney.com (7/29/08)
• "HEALTH REFORM: 45,000 Doctor's Can't Be Wrong," Ed Money Watch (7/30/2009)
• "Lawmakers hear debate on doctor data mining," Charleston Gazette (7/30/08)
• "Sale of Information to Drug Makers Questioned," Times-West Virginia (7/30/08)
• "Brain Dead Bureaucrat Watch: VA Blocks Voter Registration at Vets' Hospital" Huffington Post (8/15/08)
• "National Medical Associations Join Together to Host Voter Registration Drives Across Country" Medical New Today (9/3/08)
• "Will biotech change pharma ethics?" ZDNet Healthcare (9/11/08)
• "Should the US have universal healthcare?" Opposing Views (10/29/08)
• "Insurers entice doctors to prescribe generic drugs," Associated Press (10/29/08); Houston Chronicle (10/30/08); Kaiser Daily Reports (10/30/08)
• "Wyndmoor physician works for health-care reform" Springfield Sun (10/30/08)
• "Patients, Doctors Rally for Healthcare Reform," WJZ-TV (10/31/08)
• "Local doctor leads effort to register patients to vote" The Argonaut (11/20/08)
• "Doctors, Insurance Firms Duel on Generics," CBS News (11/26/08)
• "Citizen Doctor Helps Patients Find Their Civic Voice," Tufts University Tisch College Newsletter (12/2008)
• "Court Rules Against Bucks Company," phillyburbs.com (12/4/08)
• "A Bumpy Road to Health: Human Rights, Obama, and Lessons from Kenya," Huffington Post (12/10/08)
• "Attorney General: ban gifts to doctors from drug reps," Hartford Courant (3/9/2009)
• "Reform Health Care Now," letter to San Fransisco Examiner (3/20/2009)
• "Doctors increasingly close doors to drug reps,..." American Medical News (3/23/2009)
• "Fearmongering and Health Reform: the Public Insurance Option," Huffington Post (3/23/2009)
• "Reform is Nothing to Fear," op-ed by NPA board member Dr. David Grande in Philadelphia Inquirer (3/26/09)
• "Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege?" Street Signs, CNBC (4/16/2009)
• "Bill Would Limit 'Gifts' to Doctors," ConnPost.Com (4/28/2009)
• "Is There a Doctor in the House?" Medill Reports (5/1/2009)
• "Health Care Town Hall a Major Success," NJ Citizen Action (5/4/2009)
• "Trade Group Proposal Lays Groundwork, But Isn't an Instant Cure" (5/12/2009)
• Comments on the Brian Lehrer Show (minute 19-20:33 of "Health Care Makeover") (5/12/2009)
• "New Health Reform Ad Touts Public Option" Washington Post (5/13/2009)
• "At Independence Hall, Health Care Professionals Rally for Health Care Reform." KYW Newsradio (5/15/09)
• "Health Care Providers and Activists Join Forces for 'A More Perfect Health Care System,'" Medical News Today (5/18/09)
• "This is the start of making primary care cool again," ACP Advocate Blog (5/20/2009)
• "Public Health Plan Should Be an Option," The Oregonian (5/25/2009)
• "A Fierce Fight Over Free Lunches for Physicians," Hartford Courant (5/25/2009)
• "Federal Bill Would Address Primary Care Shortage," American Medical News (6/3/2009)
• "Farmers Markets Bloom at Hospitals," CNN Health (6/3/2009)
• "Dear AMA: I Quit!" Huffington Post (June 10, 2009)
• "Why the AMA Opposes the Public Insurance Plan," Washington Post (6/11/2009)
• "AMA Reporting Needs a Second Opinion," Media Matters (6/12/2009)
• "Doc Quits AMA Over Public Plan Position," Examiner.com (6/12/2009)
• "NBC's Guthrie Falsely Suggests the AMA Represents 'the Nation's Doctors,'" Media Matters (6/15/2009)
• "Coalition of Doctor Organizations: Our Patients Deserve the Choice of Public Health Insurance Option," SEIU Blog (6/15/2009)
• Interview with NPA Policy Chair Dr. Chris McCoy, KPFA Evening News (6/15/2009) around min 15:40
• Interview with NPA Policy Chair Dr. Chris McCoy, Democracy Now (6/16/2009) mid-hour
• "Why the AMA Doesn't Speak for Me...," Huffington Post (6/17/2009)
• "Doctors Just Want to be Doctors," YES! Blog (6/17/2009)
• "What you Need to Know about Health Care Reform," CNN Health (6/18/2009)
• "Mayo Clinic doctor leaves AMA in protest," Post Bulletin, Rochester, MN (6/19/2009)
• "Memo to President Obama: Look Beyond the AMA!" DailyKos (6/20/2009)
• "Health Care 'Pillars' Failed," Bangor Daily News (6/20/2009)
• "Compromising on Health Reform," WHYY (6/22/2009)
• "A Vision for Health-Care Reform that is Effective and Affordable," Seattle Times (6/22/2009)
• "Thousands Turn Out for Health Care Reform," Huffington Post (6/26/2009)
• "Advocates of Universal Health Coverage Rally on Capitol Hill," Washington Post (6/26/2009)
• "Doctors Deeply Divided Over National Health Care Reform," Star Tribune (6/27/2009)
• "Public health care will be focus of forum in Reading church," Reading Eagle (7/01/2009)
• "Doctors Boo Obama in Chicago," Dissident Voice (7/04/2009)
• "Health Care Crusader," The Bend Bulletin (7/13/2009)
• "Insurers Fear a Public Option," Herald Tribune (7/17/2009)
• "One Giant Leap for Healthcare Reform," The Guardian (7/17/2009)
• "Choice: The Public Health-Care Option," The Ledger (7/18/2009)
• "For one and all?" Sun Gazette (7/18/2009)
• "Area Health Professionals Rally for Reform," Philadelphia Inquirer (7/21/2009)
• "Obama Health Plan Gets a Push Here," Philly Daily News (7/21/2009)
• "Lackluster Public of Lack of Information?" HealthCare POV (7/24/2009)
• "The Burden of Health Care Costs for Working Families--Implications for Reform," NEJM (7/29/2009)
• "Can Obama Close the Deal on Health Care?" Time (7/30/2009)
• "Harry Reid: Don’t 'Cry Great Big Tears About the Insurance Industry" CNS News (7/30/2009)
• "FPs Talk About Health Care Reform, Impact on Patient Care in New Video," AAFP News (7/30/2009)
• "Senate Dems blame media for August health deadline," The Hill (7/30/2009)
• "AAFP Board Chair Makes Compelling Case for Health Reform" AAFP News (7/31/2009)
• "7 Medical Groups Unite to Push for Action on Health Reform," Chicago Sun Times 8/03/2009)
• "Health Reform Opponents Circulate Smear E-Mail," PoliticalAffairs.net (8/05/2009)
• "Explaining Health Care Reform," WPVI TV, Philadelphia (8/11/2009)
• "Congressman Tim Walz Hears from Constituents About the Need for Health Reform," Fillmore County Journal (8/11/2009)
• "Walz holds gathering on health care, will conduct forum soon," Post Bulletin (8/11/2009)
• "Congressman Walz moved by uninsured man's tragedy," Kare 11 (8/12/2009)
• "Death panels, euthanasia, abortion: health care fiction and facts," People's Weekly World (8/12/209)
• "Reform Would Cut Costs for the Already Insured," op-ed by NPA board member Dr. David Grande in Philadelphia Inquirer (8/13/2009)
• "Healthcare: The System has Failed Us, and We Should Not Accept Defeat," The Day (8/16/2009)
• "The public option: a broken health system needs it," Star Tribune (8/16/2009)
• "Canvassers Try to Rally Support for Health Reform," Philadelphia Inquirer (8/16/2009)
• The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC (8/17/2009), minute 14:37
• "Public Health Insurance Plan is Not an Option," Baltimore Sun (8/23/2009)
• "Your 2 Cents," NY1 (8/27/2009)
• 3000 NYers RALLY for Health Care in Times Square Daily Kos (8/29/2009)
• Manhattan Demonstrators Call For Health Care Reform NY1 (8/30/2009)
• First NPA Chinese Media Hit Chinese Language World Journal (8/30/2009)
• Health Care Reform Unity Rally in Times Square Honors Kennedy eMediaWire (8/30/2009)
• NY health care rally honors Ted Kennedy People's Weekly World Newspaper (8/30/2009)
• AFSCME Highway to Health Care Ends Tour, Fight for Reform Gears Up AFL-CIO Blog Now (8/31/2009)
• Some Anti-Reform Doctors Using Scare Tactics On Patients Huffington Post (9/1/2009)
• Reclaiming the Healthcare Battle GRITtv (9/2/2009)
• Lobbyists on both sides of health overhaul fight aim ads, demonstrations at returning Congress KFSM (9/4/2009)
• "Pediatrician: We need a Public Option," Baltimore Sun (9/9/2009)
• "Broken healthcare and broken lives," LA Times (9/13/2009)
• "Local doctors say health-care reform is necessary," Daily Comet, Louisiana (9/14/2009)
• "Poll Finds Most Doctors Support the Public Option," NPR (9/14/2009)
• "Poll Finds Most Doctors Support the Public Option" Kaiser Foundation News (9/14/2009)
• "Doctors Like Public Option, Especially as a Choice," Daily Kos (9/15/2009)
• "Poll: Doctors Among Public Option's Biggest Fans," NPR (9/15/2009)
• "Obama woos supporters at massive health care rally," AFP (9/17/2009
• "Obama gets praise, questions at health-care rally," Market Watch (9/17/2009)
• "Service helps health care providers prescribe drugs," Bangor Daily News (9/21/2009)
• "ICYMI: 'Half a million doctors support health care reform," Media Matters (9/22/2009)
• "Doctors' groups unveil health care reform ad," SEIU blog (9/22/2009)
• "Awesome video of health care rally," Daily Kos (9/23/2009)
• "Philly to CIGNA, Congress, 'Health Care Now!'" People's Weekly World (9/24/2009)
• "New Twists in the Health Debate," NYT LTE by NPA-NY leader Dr. Manel Silva (10/2/2009)
• "Senior U.S. Health Policy Advisors, Doctors To Hold Health Care Panel Discussion, Live Webcast," Medical News Today (10/5/2009)
• "An Even Better Picture of Most Influential Doctors in US," USA Today (10/14/2009)
• "Health Care Bill Passes House," Connecticut Watchdog (11/07/2009)
• "Public Option Needed," Journal Sentinel (11/09/2009)
• "UVa posting its doctors' financial deals online," Charlottesville Daily Progress (11/12/2009)
• "Ethicists Prod NIH to Spend Money Investigating Conflicts of Interest," The Chronicle of Higher Education (11/17/2009)
• "Protesters demand health care for children," New York Amsterdam News (11/26/2009)
• "NY rally highlights health care's human face," People's Weekly World (12/10/2009)
• "Report Says Reform Would Increase Spending; Reimportation Won't Go Away," MedPage Today (12/11/2009)
• "UCSF Physicians Respond to Rep. Eshoo on Evergreening Loophole in Biologics Bill," The Seminal (12/15/2009)
• "Doctors who support the congressional democrats plan to overhaul health insurance" Radioactivity, WMNF 88.5 FM (12/15/2009)
• "Don't give into road rage - A doctor's commentary on the mammogram screening controversy," Current News Blog (12/22/2009)
• "Mad in the Middle: Healthcare reform - The good, the bad, & the ugly," Mad in the Middle on BlogTalkRadio (12/28/2009)
• "Clinical Scholar Urges Congress to Reform Federal Prevention Programs," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (12/30/2009)
• "SEIU, ELCA, Jesuits, La Raza and Others: Insurance Must be Affordable to Working People," Daily Kos (1/7/2010)
• "Doctors for Reform," Seattle Times (1/11/2010)
• "Health Care Reform: Implications of Pending Legislation," Nash on Health Policy (1/14/2010)
• "Lawmakers debate prescription drug reforms," Session Daily (1/25/2010)
• "Common-sense Rx reforms in Minnesota important to seniors, consumers," Postscript Blog (1/25/2010)
• "Groups want tighter controls over drug industry influence," Minnesota Public Radio (1/26/2010)
• "Legislators move to tighten rules for drug companies," KARE 11, NBC affiliate Minneapolis - St. Paul (1/26/2010)
• "Meaningful reform will require courage," Philadelphia Inquirer (1/26/2010)
• "Mr. President, your patients are waiting: A Doctor's Commentary," Current News Blog (1/27/2010)
• "Healthcare Reform Would Lower Prescription Costs, Says Physician," Talk Radio News Service (1/29/2010)
• Families USA Health Action 2010 Conference, Hard Knock Radio (1/29/2010)
• "Abandoning health care reform not an option," Bangor Daily News (1/29/2010)
• "free yo mind friday," Warren Ballentine Show (1/29/2010)
• Families USA Health Action 2010 Conference, Progressive Blend Radio (1/29/2010)
• "Tucker Carlson: The Face of American Anesthesiologists?" Anesthesiology News (2/2010)
• "A doctor's view: Don't miss this chance for a cure," The Oregonian (2/2/2010)
• "Cost of Inaction on Health Care Reform is Too High," Baltimore Sun (2/4/2010)
• "Autism's Bad Apple - The MMR vaccine link reversal," Current News Blog (2/4/2010)
• "N.Y., Minnesota consider new rules on pharma gifts" American Medical News (2/12/2010)
• "A Beautiful Day to March Across the Brooklyn Bridge (photodiary)," Daily Kos (2/20/2010)
• "Islanders take part in citywide march for health care reform," Staten Island Advance (2/21/2010)
• "Health Care Reform: The Cure for Bipartisan Disorder?" New Left Notes (2/23/2010)
• "Congress: Groundhog's Day," MSNBC First Read (2/24/2010)
• "Group says health care reform failure could lead to 7,600 deaths," The Macomb Daily (3/13/2010)
• "Study claims lives are at stake without health care reform," Daily Tribune (3/14/2010)
• "This Won't Hurt a Bit," Newsweek (3/15/2010)
• "Overview of Health Care Reform," Coffee with Annabel Radio Blog Show (3/16/2010)
• "Support for President Obama's Health Reform Proposal," eNews Park Forest (3/19/2010)
• "Please Support health care reform , Rep. Kratovil," Baltimore Sun op-ed by NPA member Stuart Silver (3/19/2010)
• "Connolly to Vote Yes for Historic Health Insurance Reform Bill," Congressman Gerry Connolly Website (3/20/2010)
• "Connolly Announces He Will Vote YES On Historic Health Insurance Reform," Fairfax Blue Blog (3/20/2010)
• "House votes healthcare overhaul into law," Healthcare Finance News (3/22/2010)
• "House Votes Healthcare Overhaul into Law, Promotes Health IT," Profero Solutions Blog (3/22/2010)
• "Calif. Uninsured to To Gain from Health Reform," CBS5 (3/22/2010)
• "Health Care: Fight's Just Starting," GRITtv (3/23/2010)
• "List of Organizations Expressing Support for Health Reform Legislation," Speaker Nancy Pelosi Website (3/23/2010)
• "HCR plans to combat doctor shortages," Pied Type Blog (4/3/2010)
• "The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Sues to Overturn Reform; The National Physicians Alliance Replies," Health Beat Blog (4/6/2010)
• "Reform Rodeo: Medicaid; Self-insurance; EBM; Gene Patent Smackdown; eRx; Cool Stuff," Health Reform Watch (4/6/2010)
• "Top 10 Myths about Global Health Workforce Crisis Busted at the National Physicians Alliance Conference," Global Health Blog (4/6/2010)
• "What Do Doctors Think About Health Reform?" Huffington Post (4/14/2010)
• "Rebuilding the US Health Left," The Social Medicine Portal (4/15/2010)
• "What Do Doctors Think About Health Reform?" Wright on Health Blog (4/16/2010)
• "RWV Honored by National Physicians Alliance-NY," Raising Women's Voices Blog (5/5/2010)
• "Forum on new health care law at Wagner College," Staten Island Advance (5/13/2010)
• "National physician groups condemn Arizona SB 1070," Arizona Daily Star (5/18/2010)
• "Election Special: Health Care Policy," WHYY News and Information (5/18/2010)
• "Arizona law bad for our health, doctors say," People's World (6/1/2010)
• "First do no harm," The Mex Files (6/3/2010)
• "Arizona's Immigration Law and Doctors," Global Pulse (6/6/2010)
• "Calling All Doctors, Nurses, and Other Health Care Professionals," PA Health Access Network (6/10/2010)
• "Facing the doctor shortage," LTE in Los Angeles Times (6/14/2010)
• "A Permanent 'Doc-Fix' Remains Elusive," Health Beat Blog (7/1/2010)
• "F.D.A. Panel Votes to Restrict Avandia," New York Times Health Blog (7/14/2010)
• "Avandia Debated LIVE," AlexO'Meara.com (7/14/2010)
• "Harvard Medical School Restricts Faculty Ties to Industry," The Harvard Crimson (7/21/2010)
• "Health pros offer look at reform," The Times Leader (7/23/2010)
• "Do You Believe Physicians Should Be Activists? If So, Read On," Life in Undeserved Medicine Blog
• "New Law Strengthens Pennsylvania's Working Families and Small Businesses," News Blaze (8/3/2010)