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Komen in the News Again for Unbecoming Public Behavior
No surprise to me read to read the WSJ report Charity Brawl: Nonprofits Aren’t So Generous When a Name’s at Stake, detailing how the Susan G. Komen Foundation is aggressively going after small disease...
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Selling Sickness Conference
The first international “Selling Sickness” Conference held October 7-8 in Amsterdam drew some 200 participants from around the globe to discuss the issues and trends in marketing of prescription...
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Spotlight on Industry Ties of Health Advocacy Groups
The article Efforts to Undermine Public Health: Health Advocacy Organizations and the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Analysis of Disclosure Practices in the Jan.13 issue of American Journal of Public...
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Health News Progress Report
Moving forward Regence fined $100K for denying women coverage [Washington] State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined Regence BlueShield $100,000 for denying contraceptive coverage to 984...
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News Roundup
As the new year starts, some ome items of note from near and far: The breast implant scandal strips away the glossy euphemisms of cosmetic surgery S. Korea approves Asia’s first anti-leukemia drug...
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US Patient Petition Calling for Reduction of Gleevec Price
Those who have been following the saga of the leukemia wonder drug imatinib mesylate or Glivec (spelled Gleevec in North America to standardize pronunciation) may recall that it was said to be the...
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Headline scan
Recent news of note: Report: Debt Collectors Work In Emergency Rooms, Demand Payment Before Patients Receive Care Abbott To Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Depakote Probes Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can...
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A Honey of a Translation
Two recent news stories about honey, illustrate yet again the vital importance of communications to health. In these completely unrelated cases, it was all about translations, the rendering of...
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WA Healthplanfinder Updates
Consumer info fact sheets translated into WA’s threshold written languages (Chinese, Lao, Khmer ( Cambodian), Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese) were posted on Dec. 16, just one week...
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Around Washington: End of the Year News Scan
Old US Public Health Service Hospital (known as Pacific Tower during its tenure as Amazon HQ building) to become new satellite campus for allied health professions programs of Seattle Central Community...
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Health News Review : News We Need Gets a Boost
Exciting news came at the end of the year for Gary Schwitzer’s Health News Review project which had lost the funding that supported the team of reviewers that analyzed the accuracy of health stories in...
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