Outsourcing of Drug Trials Raises Concerns
Today’s NY Times discusses the good and the potentially bad when it comes to conducting trials of new drugs outside of the United States. Subjects in developing countries may be rushing to sign up and disregarding their own safety. Populations in some other countries may be so physically different from Americans that results of testing may [...]
Doctors Sue to Stop Health Insurers’ Usual and Customary Fraud
We consumers of medical care aren’t the only ones who have been short changed by major U.S. health insurers. According to an AP story in today’s NY Times, physicians have been cheated out of fees they earned for treating patients insured through such companies, which include Cigna and Aetna. This has prompted the American Medical Association to [...]
UPDATE On Fertility Clinic That Enabled Mother of Octuplets
The Medical Board of California is investigating the fertility clinic that is said to have helped Nadya Suleman conceive all 14 of her children, according to whittierdailynews.com, of Whittier, California. The Board disclosed that it wants to determine whether the act of implanting such a high volume of embryos violated the standard of care.