…are Whites over on the right. There is a large inequity here in infant mortality. Slide 9: Maternal Mortality Ratios in Selected Communities, 2018 or Latest Year New Zealand: 1.7…
Data Update – Spring 2014 newsletter
…Therapy Comes Under Attack,” Wall Street Journal, 8/28/13). • Some CEOs of nonprofit hospitals receive lavish pay. In 2009, their average compensation was $595,781 and their median compensation was $404,938….
The People’s Media Reaches More People Than FOX Does
…news services for progressive content – credible outfits like Alternet.org, TomPaine.com, Buzzflash.com, and CommonDreams.org. This single-minded mercenary focus combines with general corporate arrogance to bloat the egos of media chieftains,…
Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United States—If We Let It
…“Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2015,” http://medscape.com; Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Apprehensive, Many Doctors Shift to Jobs with Salaries,” New York Times, February 13, 2014, http://nytimes.com 45. Dante Morra et al., “US Physician…
America Needs A New New Deal
…mechanisms of the New Deal, while betraying its underlying spirit, should be rejected. Federal relief should not be aimed at the top and somehow expected to trickle-down. A new New…
TPP and the Dire Threat to Affordable Drug Prices
…PhRMA. Truthout, August 18, 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37260-disgusted-with-sky-high-drug-prices-california-voters-take-on-big-pharma 12. Ibid # 11. 13. Bulik, BS. Pharmacists join physicians’ rallying cry for a ban on PhRMA’s DTC advertising. FiercePhRMA, June 20, 2016. http://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pharmacists-join-physicians-latest-call-for-ban-pharma-advertising…
Pharmaceutical R&D – its cost and what it delivers
…new molecules, net of taxpayer subsidies. More than four fifths of all funds for basic research to discover new drugs and vaccines come from public sources. Moreover, despite the industry’s…
Pharmaceutical R&D – its cost and what it delivers
…new molecules, net of taxpayer subsidies. More than four fifths of all funds for basic research to discover new drugs and vaccines come from public sources. Moreover, despite the industry’s…
Pharmaceutical R&D – its cost and what it delivers
Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?
…funds for basic research to discover new drugs and vaccines come from public sources. Moreover, despite the industry’s frequent claims that the cost of new drug discovery is now $1.3bn…
A Banker in the Exam Room? The Growing Resistance to Medicare Privatization
…comparison of what they’ve promoted so far about this new program versus the old DCE program and it’s the same with a couple of key exceptions. The new organizations are…
An ER doc reflects on life, death and uncertainty in the early days of COVID-19
Interview with Dr. Farzon Nahvi
…And one of – you write about a moment early in your career where you had to communicate bad news. And it was a woman who had come in with…
Racism, Chronic Disease, and Mental Health: Time to Change Our Racialized System of Second-Class Care
…Academies Press: Washington, DC, USA, 2013. Health Coverage Affordability Crisis 2020 Biennial Survey. Commonwealth Fund. Available online: https://www.commonwealthfund.org… (accessed on 29 June 2021). Poll: 69 percent of voters support Medicare…