NPA in the News – 2008


Text Icon Publish Date: July 8, 2020

Text Icon Written by: Barbara Meier
Text Icon Medically reviewed by: Dr. Manan Trivedi and Dr. Marc Kimmel

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  • “A Bumpy Road to Health: Human Rights, Obama, and Lessons from Kenya,” Huffington Post (12/10/08)
  • “Court Rules Against Bucks Company,” phillyburbs.com (12/4/08)
  • “Citizen Doctor Helps Patients Find Their Civic Voice,” Tufts University Tisch College Newsletter (12/2008)
  • “Doctors, Insurance Firms Duel on Generics,” CBS News (11/26/08)
  • “Local doctor leads effort to register patients to vote” The Argonaut (11/20/08)
  • “Patients, Doctors Rally for Healthcare Reform,” WJZ-TV (10/31/08)
  • “Wyndmoor physician works for health-care reform” Springfield Sun (10/30/08)
  • “Insurers entice doctors to prescribe generic drugs,” Associated Press (10/29/08); Houston Chronicle (10/30/08); Kaiser Daily Reports (10/30/08)
  • “Should the US have universal healthcare?” Opposing Views (10/29/08)
  • “Will biotech change pharma ethics?” ZDNet Healthcare (9/11/08)
  • “National Medical Associations Join Together to Host Voter Registration Drives Across Country” Medical New Today (9/3/08)
  • “Brain Dead Bureaucrat Watch: VA Blocks Voter Registration at Vets’ Hospital” Huffington Post (8/15/08)
  • “Sale of Information to Drug Makers Questioned,” Times-West Virginia (7/30/08)
  • “Lawmakers hear debate on doctor data mining,” Charleston Gazette (7/30/08)
  • “HEALTH REFORM: 45,000 Doctor’s Can’t Be Wrong,” Ed Money Watch (7/30/2009)
  • “Curbs eyed for Sales of W.VA. Info to Drug Makers,” CNNMoney.com (7/29/08)
  • “Group Kicks off $25 Million Ad Campaign for Health Care” Seattle Post Intelligencer (7/8/08)
  • “Groups Push Health Care,” Rocky Mountain News (7/8/2008)
  • “Gift Ban Bill Gains Backers,” Boston Globe (6/24/08)
  • “Medical Professionals Line Up in Support of SB 1137,” PA Health Access Network (6/23/08)
  • “Bill Aims to Cure Costly Side Effects of Doctor Gifts,” Public News Service (5/28/08)
  • “Bill Would Let Pharmacies Sell Medical Records,” San Francisco Chronicle (5/28/08)
  • Letter to Editor re: ghostwriting and gifts to physicians, Baltimore Sun (4/25/08)
  • Letter to Editor re: Gifts to Physicians, New York Times, (4/22/08)
  • Letter to Editor re: MA Senate Gift Ban proposal, Boston Herald, (4/21/08)
  • “Waiting for Health Care,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (4/16/08)
  • “Rx ‘Data  Mining’ Legislation Awaits Action in CA, Dies in WA State,” Drug Benefit News (4/04/08)
  • “Physician Gifting Crackdown,” Pharmaceutical Executive (3/26/08)
  • “Bill Makes it Illegal for Drug Makers to buy Prescription Data for Marketing,” Tacoma News Tribune (2/26/08)
  • “Datamining Should get the Shaft,” Seattle Times (2/26/08)
  • Letter to Editor re: FDA rules on off-label promotions , New York Times (2/23/08)
  • “Give Doctors and Patients Privacy,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2/7/08)
  • “Gathering Data on Docs,” PhillyBurbs.com (1/20/08)