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Webinars and Webcasts of Interest for Parkinson’s Disease

For PwPs, Caregivers and Families: You might be like to attend these online events Drug Development Pipeline on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm EST Direct from the Campus of Georgetown University, Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) is hosting “Emerging Therapies: From Microscope to Marketplace″ featuring a panel of speakers from the scientific [...]

Conflicts of Interest, Government Leaders, and Private Health Care Organizations

There seems to be a small surge of stories about conflicts of interest regarding health care affecting government leaders who can affect health care.&nbsp The Institute of Medicine defined conflict of interest in medicine as “circumstances that create a risk that professional judgments or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a [...]

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 11 April, 2011.

Here are a few I have come across this week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a paragraph or two. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment: The main [...]

How Many New Drugs Are Lemons? Ask Donald Light

This is a very important post because it refutes more conclusively than anything previously posted here the general position taken by the group we have come to call the “pharmapologists.” These folks, as demonstrated in numerous earlier posts, argue that the pharmaceutical industry produces life-saving drugs and fantastic innovations in health, and when physicians get [...]

Residents work overtime for Haiti

A group of our residents has asked me to publicize this event tomorrow night at 62 Brookline Avenue, Boston, to benefit the Clinton/Bush Fund to support earthquake victims in Haiti. They note: When coming to the door, remember to say you are here to see “Poor Historians” so your cover charge contributes to the Haiti [...]