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Prescription Drugs: Improvements Needed in FDA’s Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Advertising, Full text GAO-07-54, and Highlights, November 16, 2006. “Studies GAO reviewed suggest that DTC advertising has contributed to increases in drug spending and utilization, for example, by prompting consumers to request the advertised drugs from their physicians, who are generally responsive to these requests. …
The Operation Paget inquiry report into the allegation of conspiracy to murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, by Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpinton, Thursday 14 December 2006. Download Operation Paget inquiry – overview (PDF) Download Operation Paget inquiry – full report (PDF)
Press release: “Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) today released the fourth annual “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism,” which found that five years after the September 11th and anthrax tragedies, emergency health preparedness is still inadequate in America. The…report contains state-by-state health preparedness scores based on 10 key indicators …
Press release, December 11, 2006: Training for Terrorism-Related Conditions in Hospitals: United States, 2003-04. Advance Data Number 380. 9 pp. (PHS) 2007-1250. “The report …is based on data from the annual National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, conducted by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).” “Eighty-eight percent of hospitals surveyed in 2003 and 2004 …
Follow up to my December 11, 2006 posting, EPA Responds to Protests Over Library Closures, see today’s ALA Press release: “American Library Association (ALA) President Leslie Burger responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) update Monday on the status of agency libraries. “The teleconference raised more questions than it answered. It is a gross oversimplification …
Ensuring Liberty And Security Through Checks And Balances: A Fresh Start For The Senate Judiciary Committee In The New 110th Congress, December 13, 2006 – By Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Incoming Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, United States Senate. “When it comes to protecting Americans privacy, what we have today are analog rules in a digital …
Press release: “U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced today during a speech at a meeting of the Lawyers for Civil Justice in New York that the Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Thompson Memorandum, which was issued in January …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Baker-Hamilton Report Evokes Modest Public Interest Growing Number Sees Iraq Becoming ‘Another Vietnam’, December 12, 2006. “Despite deep public dissatisfaction with the Iraq war, the highly anticipated report by a bipartisan panel proposing new policy options for Iraq did not register strongly with most Americans. Only …
Press release: “Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Rush Holt today said that they sent a letter [text of which is available in PDF] to the Attorney General asking for a briefing on the Amerithrax case. The letter was signed by 33 members of Congress. “We’re seeing more and more agencies thwart the Constitutional responsibility of …
Press release: “A new report on childhood asthma released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that death rates for asthma among children under age 18 have declined since 1999, while doctor visits for the condition have more than doubled over the past decade. In 2005, nearly 9 percent of children …
Unified Agenda, December 2006 Edition: “The Unified Agenda summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months.”
White House Summit on Malaria, December 14, 2006 Briefing on the White House Summit on Malaria, 12/12/2006 Fact Sheet: White House Summit on Malaria Reducing Malaria in Africa Focus of U.S. Summit
