[PharmPro] Going to the doctor in Puerto Rico has for years often meant getting in line. Now, it might mean getting on a plane.
A medical exodus is taking place in the Caribbean territory as doctors and nurses flee for the U.S. mainland, seeking higher…
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04/24/2013
Doctors Flee Puerto Rico for US Mainland
[Medline Plus] When doctors know what hospitals charge for certain lab tests, they order far fewer of them or look for cheaper alternatives, a new study finds.
Currently, hospitals typically keep doctors and patients in the dark about the prices of med…
[The New York Times] Australia’s first death from XDR-TB — extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, which is nearly incurable — has alarmed health officials and added new heat to a debate over how to treat immigrants with dangerous diseases. That…
[Los Angeles Times] A government attorney urged the Supreme Court to allow authorities to crack down on cash deals among prescription drug makers that delay the introduction of generic drugs and keep consumer prices high.
The so-called pay-for-delay de…
[NPR] A blue-ribbon panel is urging stronger regulation of pharmaceuticals around the world to combat the growing problem of fake and poor-quality medicines.
The quality problems and fake medicines have affected Americans. Fungal contamination of stero…
02/14/2013
Stem cells in Texas: Cowboy culture
[Nature] Ann McFarlane is losing faith. In the first half of 2012, the Houston resident received four infusions of adult stem cells grown from her own fat. McFarlane has multiple sclerosis (MS), and had heard that others with the inflammatory disease h…
[Kaiser Health News] Robert Brown was healthy, willing and a good match: So why not give a kidney to his wife, who otherwise would need dialysis?
There was just one potential obstacle: Brown was 74, an age once unthinkable for a kidney donor.
For this …
[ New York Times] Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the “fiscal cliff” bill that…