Health Policy Articles
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| Health Care Report - This site, in data graphic form, shows U.S. live expectancy trends and health care spending compared to other nations, raising challenging questions today and looking forward. |
| Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Debate Over Resources - International human-rights standards can help point a useful direction while we prepare ourseleves to face a new public-health challenge that has come to the fore in the fight against AIDS. |
| Infostat, Cargo-Cult Science and the Policy Sausage-machine - Paper on the managerial takeover of clinical practice, and how the process of medical science is distorted by politics and dubious trendy theories. |
| Medical Malpractice lawsuits - Legal Information on medical malpractice lawsuits. |
| No Caps On Non-Economic Medical Malpractice Awards - Facts sheets explaining attempts to legitimize negligent or incompetent conduct by health care providers. |
| Not Another Generation Exposed To Asbestos - An examination of asbestos, its effects on the human body, the state of mesothelioma treatments, and pending legislation on asbestos issues. |
| Public Health and Personal Freedom - Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol. |
| Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist." (December 17, 1998) |
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