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Doctors profiteering from radiation treatments
Doctors who have a financial interest in radiation treatment centers are much more likely to prescribe such treatments for patients with prostate cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/us/doctors-who-profit-from-radiation-prescribe-it-more-often-study-finds.html?ref=us Medicare beneficiaries were often unaware that their doctors stood to profit from the use of radiation therapy. Alternative treatments may be equally effective and are less expensive for Medicare and for […]
US regulatory agency allows dangerous infant research
The federal Office for Human Research Protections announced on Wednesday that it would suspend action against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which it said in March did not adequately inform parents about the risks to their premature infants of enrollment in a large research trial. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/health/watchdog-halts-action-on-researchers.html?ref=us At the center of the uproar, which has […]