Best of the blogosphere’s health-policy wonkery
The Health Wonk Review, a selection of the blogosphere’s best posts on health policy, is published every two weeks by a blogger volunteer. The latest edition is now up at David Williams’ Health Business Blog.
Among the featured posts are:
- An analysis of Big Pharma’s apparent intimidation of drug-safety critics such as Steve Nissen, the cardiologist who first highlighted potential safety problems of the diabetes drug Avandia;
- A look at how different countries handled late-stage kidney disease, and why spending more doesn’t relate to better outcomes;
- A how-to on negotiating your MRI bill down by 50 percent;
- A critique of the Massachusetts universal-coverage plan;
- And a post on the scariness of the individual-insurance market.
Check it out. I’ll also highlight similar roundups for biotechnology and — if one exists — medical devices when they come up.
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About the Author, David P. Hamilton
David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.