Tag: legislation
Congress Holds Historic Hearing on Childhood Trauma
On July 11, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held its first-ever hearing on childhood trauma, featuring emotional testimony from survivor witnesses, as well as a number of prominent public health experts and government officials.
Doctors Launch Sweeping Pharmaceutical Reform Proposal
From Medical Xpress: A group of 21 prominent physicians have released a comprehensive proposal to guarantee everyone access to safe, innovative, and affordable medication. The proposed reforms...
Payment Disclosure Bill is a Good First Step, but More is...
From The Globe and Mail: Ontario's newly proposed physician-payment disclosure law is an important first step in the direction of improved health care and increased...
Ontario Bill Will Reveal Drug Company Payments to Doctors
From the Toronto Star: The province of Ontario has introduced a new transparency bill that will require pharmaceutical and medical device companies to disclose payments they make...
PA State Representatives Introduce Bill to Ban ECT on Children
From Fox43: Last week, two Pennsylvania state representatives, Tom Murt and Stephen Kinsey, introduced a bill to prohibit the use of electroconvulsive therapy on children...
Have You Ever Wondered Why Labels on Supplements are so Vague?
If it wasnât evident before, these newer regulations make it crystal clear that prescription drugs have a monopoly over the terms âmedicineâ and âtherapeutic benefit,â and that it is very difficult for anything that isnât a Big Pharma drug to make a therapeutic claim.
A Bill to Explore the Relationship Between Veteran Suicides and Prescription...
The objective of [these] bills is to combat suicide deaths by ensuring that accurate information is available on the relationship between suicides and prescription "medication". At the present time, 20 US veterans a day are dying by suicide.
âHow Poverty Affects Childrenâs Brainsâ
New research is investigating how âpoverty reduction promotes cognitive and brain development.â