Posts Tagged ‘university’
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 05:44 | Comments Off
JAMA Editor Catherine DeAngelis to Leave Post Next SummerCategories: Wall Street Journal -
Friday, July 9th, 2010 at 04:54 | Comments Off
Sunscreen Questions, Part III: Expiration Dates, Melanoma, Vitamin DCategories: Wall Street Journal -
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 07:20 | Comments Off
Answers to Some of Your Burning Sunscreen QuestionsCategories: Wall Street Journal -
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 07:41 | Comments Off
It’s the (Food) Economy, StupidCategories: Wall Street Journal -
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 06:23 | Comments Off
What Happens When Pregnant Women Get Severe Swine FluCategories: Wall Street Journal -
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 05:54 | Comments Off
How Much Would You Pay for a Primary-Care Visit?Categories: Wall Street Journal, insurance -
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 06:05 | Comments Off
Think Gene Patents Are Controversial Now? Just WaitCategories: Wall Street Journal
The controversy over gene patents is not going away anytime soon. As the WSJ reports, a Duke University study concludes that exclusive licensing of gene-based diagnostic tests can keep patients from benefiting from genetic discoveries and often leads to legal wrangling.
And current disagreements surrounding gene patents –- such as the recent federal court decision to invalidate seven patents covering the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes licensed solely to Myriad Genetics –- may be small potatoes compared with what lies ahead. If ..read more
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 11:08 | Comments Off
Is There a Competent Doctor in the House?Categories: Wall Street Journal
A program at the University of California San Diego known as PACE –- for Physician Assessment and Clinical Education — is being used by a growing number of hospitals and state medical boards to assess the competency of troubled doctors, according to an article in today’s WSJ special report on Innovations in Health Care.
The program is one of the few to tackle a thorny problem in health care: how to ensure that doctors remain competent to practice once they have ..read more
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 07:50 | Comments Off
Maternal Mortality: Global Death Rate Drops, or Does It?Categories: Wall Street Journal
You wouldn’t think that getting world-wide figures on the number of mothers who die in pregnancy, childbirth or afterward would be particularly tricky for the experts. But there’s more evidence that such is the case.
New data on the subject comes in a study published in the Lancet saying that the number of maternal deaths had fallen to 342,900 in 2008 from 526,300 in 1980, a 35% decline. The trend “for the first time in a generation, is one of ..read more
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 at 05:35 | Comments Off
A Final Four Tale: Young Coach, Cinderella Team, Big PharmaCategories: Wall Street Journal
It’s not every season that a long-shot team like the Butler University Bulldogs makes it to the championship round of the NCAA basketball tournament. And it’s certainly not every year that the coach of a Final Four team used to sell prescription drugs.
Between college and the start of his coaching career, Brad Stevens, the 31-year-old coach of the Bulldogs, did a short stint as a marketing associate at Eli Lilly working from Lilly’s HQ in Indianapolis. He left the drug ..read more

