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FDA Sets Up New Campaign for HealthCare Providers to “Rat” on Big Pharma – Reporting Bad Marketing and Adverti by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Tue 11 May 2010 2:53pm The FDA is asking healthcare professionals to keep an eye out for violative promotion and to call 1-877-RX-DDMAC or emailing badad@fda.com when they see it. "Recognize... healthcare providers recognize misleading prescription drug promotion and provide them with an easy way to report this activity to the agency,” according to DDMAC director Tom Abrams Read on »

A GLOBAL CRISIS AFFECTING BOTH PATIENTS and HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: THE RISK OF HEALTH-CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS by Linda Appleman Shapiro

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Posted Sat 22 May 2010 9:15pm to do so, especially after logging onto NOT ON MY WATCH at www.haiwatch.com, which educates both patients and health care professionals about ways to eliminate preventable... in a hospital or health care facility. These are staggering statistics which affect staggering numbers of people! Therefore, when I was recently contacted by Barbara Dunn Read on »

Should health care providers be compelled to work during declared public health emergencies? by Jason S. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 30 Apr 2009 1:10pm . Coleman argues that “…while health care professionals can legitimately be sanctioned for violating voluntarily-assumed employment or contractual agreements, they should not be compelled to assume life-threatening risks based solely on their status as licensed professionals. In place of singling out health care professionals for punitive measures Read on »

EHPnet: NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Lead and Lead Exposure in Adults: A Guide for Health Care Providers by Environmental Health Posted Sun 31 Dec 2006 9:00pm EHPnet: NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Lead and Lead Exposure in Adults: A Guide for Health Care Providers... to Erin E. Dooley Citation: Dooley EE 2007. EHPnet: NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Lead and Lead Exposure in Adults: A Guide for Health Care Providers. Environ Health Read on »

Live Internet Videocast: You Are Not Your Brother's Health Care Provider by Dr. Paul Hsieh Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 10 May 2010 10:01am If you aren't able to attend tomorrow's lecture " You Are Not Your Brother's Health Care Provider " by Yaron Brook at University of Pennsylvania, you can still hear the talk via a live internet videocast . Thank you, Dr. Evan Madianos, for arranging this option! Read on »

Broadband for rural health care providers by HealthCare Posted Thu 15 Jul 2010 12:00am The Washignton Post highlights that the Federal Communications Commission has started a $400 million program to extend broadband to rural healthcare providers. This is an effort to provide a platform that can easily transfer information between healthcare providers, patients and hospitals. Read the full article here . Read on »

Accenture Knows What It Takes to Turn Your Organization into a High-performance Health Care Provider by Dr. Aniruddha M. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:17am Accenture Knows What It Takes to Turn Your Organization into a High-performance Health Care Provider: " Accenture’s research strongly suggests that high performance in the health care setting is determined by how well health care providers handle the intricate handoffs of an extended 'patient journey.' The patient journey encompasses all the services Read on »

The Rag Blog: Stayin' Alive : Picking a Health Care Provider by Dr. Syed L. Doctor of Dentistry

Posted Tue 02 Feb 2010 5:25pm If there is any advantage to paying my own medical bills, as I do with a so-called ” Health Savings Account” and high-deductible insurance (the only real alternative for self-employed Americans), it is that I’m free to choose my own …. Excerpt from: The Rag Blog: Stayin' Alive : Picking a Health Care Provider Read on »

‘Bad Ad Program’ to Help Health Care Providers Detect, Report Misleading Drug Ads by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Thu 13 May 2010 2:54pm The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched a program designed to educate health care providers about their role in ensuring that prescription drug advertising..., and Communications (DDMAC), in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “The Bad Ad Program will help health care providers recognize misleading prescription drug promotion Read on »

Does current smoking among health care providers limit their ability to dissuade smoking by the public? by Adi Jaffe

Posted Sun 21 Nov 2010 2:45pm would halve the adult smoking prevalence rate reported in 1998 (24%). Achieving this current smoking reduction may depend on the extent to which health care providers ( doctors..., health care providers’ anti-smoking and pro-quit messages will likely be more persuasive and credible to the smoking public when the messengers practice what they preach about Read on »