May 2013
18 posts
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“This helps to explain why 12 percent of all Americans believe that the ACA...”
– The 37th vote to repeal health care reform: Why?
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Genetic screening for breast cancer | Stats Chat →
“A round-up of some worthwhile links on Angelina Jolie and BRCA1.”
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“Williams reports on what oncologists say about cancer drugs in “The Price of...”
– Health Wonk Review: Oncologists Tell the Truth about Cancer Drugs; Will There Be Enough Plans to Choose From in the Exchanges? What Does Oregon’s Research on Medicaid Tell Us? And More … | Health Beat by Maggie Mahar
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“Via HuffPost/Pollster, Democratic pollster Mark Mellman offers his overview of...”
– Health Care Polls: Mellman on State of Obamacare Public Opinion
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“So, where does this leave us with regard to the Oregon Health Study? I have no...”
– The Oregon Health Study and the Medicalization of Health Policy | Inequalities
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“If you thought U.S. doctors would never accept evidence-based medicine, consider...”
– PSA Testing: An About-Face | Health Beat by Maggie Mahar
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“Launch of the ACA’s controversial Independent Advisory Board– a panel charged...”
– The Independent Payment Advisory Board and Medicare Spending: New Research Suggests a Change in Our Medical Culture | Health Beat by Maggie Mahar
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Offsetting Behaviour: Reason to love NZ #58: A... →
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“The key question here is how we should marginally revise our beliefs, or perhaps...”
– A few remarks on the Oregon Medicaid study
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“One of the metrics used to measure health outcomes is the five-year survival...”
– Screening screening - Numbers Rule Your World
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The Affordable Care Act and the Smokers’ Penalty |... →
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“There are broader lessons to be learned from what we’re seeing in the world of...”
– Learning from breast cancer | Felix Salmon (to be fair, the last view is not as wrong as the previous ones)
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“Humans do not do a good job of figuring out how to effectively use resources to...”
– screening tests and invasive medical procedures « Punk Rock Operations Research
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April 2013
9 posts
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“The problem is that when public health works, it is invisible. It’s an...”
– Brett Keller – global health & development » “When public health works, it’s invisible”
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“A new Annals of Internal Medicine article describes a study that compares two...”
– Individual vs. Group Incentive for Weight Loss | BioStatMatt (guess which one works best?)
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“The Indian supreme court has rejected a new patent on a “slightly altered”...”
– Landmark ruling will enable more lifesaving generic drugs in developing countries | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
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“The decision by India’s Supreme Court to deny a patent to Novartis for Glivec...”
– How Did Intellectual Property Become a Free Trade Issue? — The Monkey Cage
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“Après sept ans de bras de fer, la Cour suprême indienne a rejeté la demande de...”
– Novartis perd son bras de fer en Inde sur les brevets
March 2013
5 posts
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“Their 2012 Annual Report is a very disturbing report from WHO, for at least two...”
– Brett Keller – global health & development » Rearranging the malarial deck chairs?
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“Some retrospective case-control studies by Richard Doll and Bradford Hill in the...”
– Jerome Cornfield: The statistician who established risk factors for lung cancer and heart disease - The DO Loop
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“Chavez, who had battled cancer, was 58.”
– Hugo Chavez, influential leader with mixed record, dies at 58 - CNN.com
February 2013
12 posts
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“sometimes publics stall and defer on doing the things they ought to do because...”
– The Moral of Pierre | Easily Distracted (a general sociology argument that has a lot of resonance in public health)
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“Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu said she has been in contact with President...”
– Mayan Nobel Menchu Says She Talked to Chavez Spirits - Bloomberg
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“Since leaving Caracas for Havana on December 10th Mr Chávez, who has ruled his...”
– Venezuela: The homecoming | The Economist
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Reforming the American Welfare State — The Monkey... →
“Our debates over particular budget and tax policies, health care, global warming...”
– Former congressman Tom Allen: GOP speaks a different language - Salon.com (interestingly enough, this trifecta is a quadrilemma in Europe, which also counts ‘access’ — this is why, in my opinion, we consider the U.S. plays its health care reform games in a different field than the...
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“The AllTrials initiative calls for all clinical trials to be reported and for...”
– We Need an Open Database of Clinical Trials | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
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“Le ministère de la santé ne pourra pas longtemps rester sourd à la demande de...”
– Débattre d’urgence de l’accès aux données de santé (via srqm)
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“Inconnu du grand public, le Système national d’information interrégimes de...”
– Bataille autour de l’accès aux données de santé (via srqm)
January 2013
18 posts
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Does Corporate Funding Corrupt Science? - FORA.tv →
Obligatory viewing for this course. This is extremely important in the health and medical sciences. Robert Proctor’s speech is excellent, and the rest of the debates rock.
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“Cette représentation d’une scène de vie au travail illustre l’un des tournants...”
– Les guerres du poumon - La Vie des idées
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“Simply concluding that all forms of incentives are driven by nothing but...”
– The red rag of health incentives | Inequalities
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[Dr. John] Snow - Movie Trailer →
History of public health goes cinematic! There’s also a celebration in York.
