Yesterday, I had an update from Megan--she's still fighting, but the news is not good. Her radiation oncologist, the doctor who had recommended stereotactic radiation to treat her brain mets, has what is called a "peer-to-peer" review with the local California Blue Shield m...

The Legal Times (3/9, Mauro) reported, "Last week's decisive Supreme Court ruling against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard-fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate national corporations from state tort lit...

Steven Lash, President and CEO of Satori World Medical, spoke with HealthBlawg last week about Satori's take on medical tourism, including its method of sharing cost savings with consumers who use Satori's services through employer-sponsored health plans. The audio file of my interview with Steven L...

The Legal Times (3/9, Mauro) reported, "Last week's decisive Supreme Court ruling against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard-fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate......

SANTA ANA, CA (MARKET WIRE) The Orange County Funders Roundtable, a coalition of local foundations, today released the results of a countywide study on how local nonprofits have been affected by the growing economic crisis. With 58% of respondents facing declining revenues in 2009, and over 66% seei...

So as previously mentioned I was scheduled to have a followup appointment with Dr. McMillan today. Went in for that, only later than expected, since her office called us literally as we were heading out the door and asked if we could come in for a 2:30 appointment instead. That was fine, I said, sin...

“Last week’s column on Mike Piazza has drawn more reader e-mail than any of the 97 columns that have appeared on this site,” boasts former NY Times baseball scribe Murray Chass, loathe to credit any portion of the blogosphere for this remarkable upturn in traffic. Instead, under the gu...

For reasons not worth getting into, there are times when my entire body is just one big ball of pain, where every inch of me aches. Usually it has to do with an incoming storm, or a weather system that is passing nearby. It happened tonight. We had a beautifully warm day, and I had no idea what the ...

I just saw a story on Bloomberg about Tykerb. The story said that the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has rejected Tykerb to treat women with advanced breast cancer because it is too expensive.  The story gives the cost of a year's worth of Tykerb as about $3...

Originally published at /var/log/vadept.log. Please leave any comments there. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmrZqrq_6H7mQuJkfn7NHIjHz9aQD96ORJ3O1 WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science, President Barack Obama plans to lift restric...