Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Dr. Jan Gurley, Everything you need to know about Swine Flu, Healthy Affairs, Swine flu, The Center of Disease Control, Twitter on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Everything you need to know about Swine Flu
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
(picture courtesy of Boston.com)
Public health emergencies and pandemic disease outbreaks tend to create media frenzies. Reports of swine flu are the latest examples dominating headlines everywhere. There’s no need to barricade yourself in a sterile environment, or walk around campus with a mask on, [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Healthy Affairs, This week in health policy on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week in health policy…
By Catherine Basham, beat blogger
Several stories caught the attention of health-policy gurus this week.
FDA Ad Crackdown. Last month, the FDA sent letters to 14 pharmaceutical companies that warned ads for prescription drugs on Google could mislead patients because they don’t contain information about the risks the drugs pose to patients. The FDA [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Healthy Affairs, Hello Health, Tweet Me a Diagnosis on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tweet me a Diagnosis
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
Everywhere you look, news about blogs, Twitter, and Facebook invades headlines. Americans seem to have an insatiable appetite for social media, and with Facebook doubling its users in the last year, and Twitter experiencing 700 percent in the same time frame, the trend shows no sign of waining. [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Frontline, Healthy Affairs, Where to go and what to know on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where to go and What to Know
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
While the Healthy Affairs column is a stellar source for all of your health policy needs, this week we’d like to try something a little different and point you toward some resources we’ve found and loved.
Tomorrow night’s Frontline features an exposé on America’s fractured health care system. [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Economist, Healthy Affairs, HIV/AIDS, United Nations AIDS task force, Weighting in on the Pope's Unpopular Opinion on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weighing in on the Pope’s Unpopular Opinion
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
(pic courtesy of dijesstthis.wordpress.com)
A global health controversy erupted last week during Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Africa when he said the distribution of condoms does not remedy the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
“On the contrary,” he said. “It increases the problem.”
This came as a blow to public health advocates and experts, [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Clean Bill of Health for Obama's Policy Promise, Healthy Affairs, Obama, President Obama, Sebelius, White House on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clean Bill of Health for Obama’s Policy Promise
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
Concern among health-care reform advocates was mounting when economic stimulus bills, troop withdrawal deadlines in Iraq, and new deployments to Afghanistan dominated headlines during President Obama’s first few weeks in office. In the face of such a complicated agenda, reformers worried health care would [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Food recalls, Healthy Affairs, The New York Times, U.S. Department of Agriculture on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you need to know about Food Recalls
by Catherine Basham
photo courtesy of barblog.foodsafety.com
It would be wonderful to bite greedily into a PB and J sandwich or gulp down a Diet Coke without worrying about poisonous toxins, but the recent flood of recalls makes it clear that we need to be careful about what we eat. [...]
