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Surgeon general pick may boost primary care focus
And the nominee for surgeon general is...Regina Benjamin, a primary-care physician who's been part of a center studying healthcare disparities at the National Institutes of Health. She comes with... Read more...
Committee makes comparative-effectiveness spending recommendations
How do you spend $1.1 billion in comparative-effectiveness research funding? A new report released by an independent advisory committee to HHS may provide some answers. The 73-page report, which was... Read more...
Academic medical associations offer conflict-of-interest proposal
In the wake of several recent scandals over academics who failed to disclose industry relationships, two key academic medical associations have come together to offer suggestions on how to regulate... Read more...
Critics want to shut down NIH center for alternative medicine
As federal bureaucrats and legislators debate methods for reforming the healthcare system, a once-untouchable institution seems to have suddenly ended up in jeopardy. The NIH's National Center for... Read more...
NIH announces availability of $1.5B in stimulus funds
NIH has announced that it will begin accepting applications for grant funding for scientific research, construction and improvement of research facilities and purchase of scientific equipment. The... Read more...
Press Release: FDA Licenses First U.S. Vaccine For Humans Against Avian Influenza
Press Release: FDA Licenses First U.S. Vaccine For Humans Against Avian Influenza
... Read more...ALSO NOTED: CA med mal insurer offers $21M in discounts; Retail clinic group offers standards; and much more...
> A doctor-owned med mal insurer based in California is offering insured physicians a total of $21 million in discounts. Premiums should drop about 7.5 percent. Article
> An emerging trade group for retail clinics has released its own set of quality and safety standards. …
... Read more...NIH doctors slam Lilly's marketing tactics
Three doctors affiliated with the National Institutes of Health have taken a public stand against tactics employed by pharmaco Eli Lilly to market its anti-sepsis drug Xigris. The doctors say Lilly has engaged in a no-holds-barred battle to win market share for Xigris, which with revenues of $200 million a year has fallen far short of sales projections. In an article for the New England Journal of Medicine, the …
... Read more...NIH gives $100M to speed research-to-care process
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced this week that it has given a dozen academic medical centers a total of $100 million in an initiative intended to help these institutions move discoveries quickly from the lab to the bedside. The twelve universities receiving the grants are now part of a consortium; members are expected to help scientists work together, rather than compete aggressively for dollars, intellectual leadership and prestige as is more the norm in research …
... Read more...ALSO NOTED: NIH researcher in trouble for drug company ties; Bank of America buys HealthLogic; and much more...
> A National Institutes of Health researcher is in big trouble as it's discovered that he had improper contact with drug companies and failed to report his outside annual income. Report
> Bank of America is buying Georgia-based HealthLogic Systems. Bank of America wants to boost its offerings in the healthcare financial services sector. …
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