Healio, July 21, 2016. A panel of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee of the CMS voted that it has moderate confidence that there is sufficient evidence for intervention that improves health outcomes for certain adults with chronic venous disease.
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Physician, Patient Advocates: Don’t Exempt CME From Sunshine Reporting
InsideHealthPolicy.com, July 18, 2016. The president of the National Center for Health Research said pharmaceutical and device companies sponsor most continuing medical education programs because they’ve got something to sell.
Read More »Dems’ Platform Highlights ACA, Reproductive Rights
MedPage Today, July 5, 2016. President of the National Center for Health Research called the draft platform “very solid.”
Read More »Ikea Is Recalling 1.7 Million More Dressers in China
Fortune, July 12, 2016. The “repair” campaign didn’t mention the word “recall,” and that language choice “reduce[d] the impact” of efforts to “educate and encourage consumers to recognize the need for action when they hear about a recall.
Read More »Selling Side Effects: Big Pharma’s Marketing Machine
Drugwatch.com, 2016. New or more expensive drugs are not necessarily better. Ads for drugs are meant to persuade not to educate.
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