Guest Blog: Mediator, symptom of a broken French system
Posted by medical student in health blog dated September 14th, 2011
Elena Pasca blogs at PharmaCritique, and is a member of the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes. She discusses the pharmaceutical industry in France, and relationships among that industry and physicians and the government. She demonstrates that the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal are global.
JAMA Article Begs Key Questions About Case of Contaminated Heparin
Posted by medical student in health blog dated September 3rd, 2011
There was a recent reminder of the case of the tainted heparin, which begged more questions than it answered. (A case summary is appended to the end of this post, and nearly all our posts are here.) The case is of fundamental importance because it involves the failure of pharmaceutical companies to fulfill their core mission, to supply pure, [...]
Article review: Message for new generation of educators
Posted by medical student in blog health dated July 30th, 2011
