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Atul Gawande - 9 People to Watch in Healthcare
Name: Atul Gawande Location: Boston, Massachusetts Profession: Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital; staff writer for New Yorker magazine Fast facts: Dr. Gawande also serves as an Associate... Read more...
Grassley wants to see med schools' conflict of interest policies
Continuing his campaign to clean up healthcare industry relationships, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has asked 23 medical schools to share details on their conflict-of-interest policies. Grassley's... Read more...
Conflict-of-interest policies for med schools a mixed bag
While the number of medical schools attempting to change their conflict-of-interest policy for the better has more than doubled in the last year, more than half of all medical schools' policies are... Read more...
Tufts withdraws invitation for Grassley aide to speak
Tufts University recently withdrew an invitation for Paul D. Thacker--an investigator for Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA)--to speak about conflicts-of-interest in medicine at an upcoming conference... Read more...
Diagnostic scan quality varies widely
Today, more than 95 million diagnostic imaging scans are done each year, generating about $100 billion a year in billings. However, it appears that a high percentage--somewhere from 20 percent to 50... Read more...
Stanford limiting drugmaker CME financing
Today, Stanford University is expected to announce that it will set strict limits on pharmaceutical industry financing of continuing education for doctors at its medical school. This marks a major... Read more...
