A review by the Sunlight Foundation found that important safety and other clinical data on more than one-third of the top-prescribed drugs in the U.S. is  not readily available to prescribers, researchers and patients. The transparency watchdog group foun

Health care reform needs to be more affordable for low- and middle-income Americans. That's the message being sent today to Congress and President Obama by more than 750 local, state and national leaders including Community Catalyst. Read the letter here.

Though a series of critical votes happened in the last month, not to mention the holidays, the issues that define negotiations between the House and Senate remain largely the same (check out our list if you need a refresher). Here’s an update on a few of

In a look both back and ahead at the relationships between the pharmaceutical and medical device industry and physicians, Modern Healthcare reports today that transparency has come a long way in the last three years, but there's still a ways to go to "ens

In his speech on September 9th, President Obama surprised listeners by declaring that health reform would not cost more than $900 billion. The President also committed to ensuring that the reform was fully paid for and would not add to the deficit. Prior

By reaching a compromise with Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) (we'll talk about how below), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has cleared the last major obstacle to historic passage of health reform in the U.S. Senate. If all goes according to plan, the Senate wil

In this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (subscription required), the office of the Inspector General of Health and Human Services suggests that pooled industry funding for Continuing Medical Education could provide a midterm solution to what the In

So Howard Dean has joined the ranks of liberals piling on health reform and encouraging lawmakers to toss in the towel. (See Kos and Firedoglake for more reform-flogging from the left.) Health reform does not succeed or fail by the public option, despite

The Huffington Post declared the public option's time of death as 11:12 on 12/10/09--the time of a press conference in which Nancy Pelosi signaled her willingness to entertain a bill without the provision.   If that was the technical time of death, what w