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Why Bad News Is Not Always Bad
Last month, the cover of BusinessWeek featured an article, How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes, focused on co-pay charities for Medicare patients. I of course had heard about such co-pay charities before, and even had the opportunity to meet with a representative of one a few years ago, but frankly I had no idea what they did. So when the article came out, outlining the "evils" of this practice, it caught my attention. By catching my attention, it actually saved my elderly parents significant amounts of money. My father and mother are both retired, living on a small pension and Social Secur...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 096
Welcome to the majestic 96th edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week EMCrit Top spot is an absolute ripper on Critical Care Palliation with Ashley Shreves - This is the best ED...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 25, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review Resuscitation LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

Reports of therapeutic hypothermia’s death are greatly exaggerated
I expect you’re completely #FOAMed out by the post-publication frenzy stirred up by the TTM Trial. If not, you’ve come to the right place! Mike collated the explosion of initial FOAM responses in All in a lather over TTM and there have since been notable additions such as Scott Aberegg’s Chill Out: Homeopathic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest… and ICN’s interview with TTM investigators Niklas Nielsen and Anders Aneman one week after TTM. Soon after, Charles Bruen came with his fascinating blogpost/podcast putting the latest studies in historical perspective: Therapeutic hypothermia: The h...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care Resuscitation Bernard critical appraisal HACA Nielsen Targeted Temperature Management Therapeutic Hypothermia TTM Source Type: blogs