Posts tagged medicine

• “Defensive Medicine” Makes Dollars, but No Sense.

  Mike Ferrara | September 11, 2009 10:22 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The logic of all the “defensive medicine” talk doesn’t add up. Doctors all around the country insist that they often perform unnecessary tests and procedures to avoid...

• Institute of Medicine: We Need Mandatory Reporting on Doctor Conflicts of Interest

  Mike Ferrara | May 04, 2009 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In the wake of a recent Massachusetts state ban on drug industry gifts to doctors and a Cleveland Clinic mandate requiring all its doctors to publicly report their financial ties to drug...

• Medical Ghostwriting is Scientific Misconduct – More Regulation Needed to Ensure Full Disclosure of Authorship in Prescription Drug Studies

  Camryn Hansen | February 05, 2009 8:34 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week, open-access journal PLoS Medicine features a discussion on medical ghostwriting by leading scientists, denouncing ghostwriting as “scientific misconduct” which poses a...

• Lack of Sleep by Medical Residents Causes Injuries and Deaths - Medical Community Finally Wakes Up

  Mike Ferrara | December 07, 2008 11:24 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  To address the abundant medical errors that result from the mandatory work schedule that prohibits medical residents from sleeping for 30 hours or more straight, earlier this week the Institute of...