Lee McGuire of KHOU-TV News on "Doctors may have found a way to destroy HIV": Paul and his team have zeroed in on a section of a key protein in […]
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Tag: Health and Medicine
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. – P.J. O’Rourke (1993)
25 NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS URGE PRIVACY IN E-PRESCRIBING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ashley Katz Patient Privacy Rights (512) 732-033 or (512) 897-6390 akatz@patientprivacyrights.org www.patientprivacyrights.org 25 NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS URGE PRIVACY IN E-PRESCRIBING What Could Be Scary About E-Prescribing? Plenty. […]
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E-Prescribing Letter to House and Senate
May 11, 2008 Honorable Max Baucus (D-MT)U.S. SenateChairman, Senate Finance511 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, D.C., 20510-2602 Honorable Charles Grassley (R-IA) U.S. SenateRanking Member, Senate Finance135 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC […]
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Franklin Delano Bush Pushes a Bad Idea
Franklin Delano Bush Pushes a Bad Idea by William F. Shughart II By signing legislation creating Medicare Part D, George W. Bush became responsible for the most significant expansion of […]
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Personal Health Data Sold by Pharmacies
From my good friends at Patient Privacy Rights: Every day all 51,000 pharmacies in the U.S. download, transmit and sell personally identifiable information for every drug they disburse. Even if […]
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Demon in Her Brain: Bebe Bahnsen’s Back
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com My friend the writer-feminist-political activist Bebe Bahnsen, AKA Bebe Smith, is having a breakthrough year. She discovered, near […]
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47 State & National Organizations, Health IT Companies Join Forces
For Immediate Release October 18, 2007 Contact: Ashley G. Katz, MSW 512.732.0033 or 512.897.6390 Download as PDF 47 State & National Organizations, Health IT Companies Join Forces to Demand Consumers Regain […]
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Marrow Donor Drive in DC
Long-time readers know that I am a supporter of the National Marrow Donor Program's Registry (http://www.marrow.org/) and have been typed and registered since January of 1997. For DC area readers, there […]
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Healthy Record Keeping
My publication, The Multiracial Activist, recently signed on a coalition letter to the House Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means regarding medical privacy. The letter is available online […]
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Bone Marrow Blues
Wil Wheaton has an urgent post on bone marrow donations and the need for donors. Give it a read. I’ve been on the National Marrow Donor Program’s Registry since January […]
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