The Latest from the NPA
INTRODUCING THE "SECURE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL" CAMPAIGN
The National Physicians Alliance is determined to keep health reform at the top of the political agenda. Join us in our campaign to secure guaranteed, affordable, high quality health care for all. Click here to learn more.
NPA LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN: Rx: VOTE!
The nation’s community health centers, clinics, and hospitals have a unique ability and responsibility to empower patients to participate in the democratic process and advocate for vital health reform. The NPA is organizing volunteers at clinical sites across the country to help with voter registration. Learn more and get involved at Rx: VOTE!
COVER PENNSYLVANIA'S UNINSURED
The NPA’s Pennsylvania Action Network is fighting for coverage of ALL Pennsylvanians. Learn more and sign a letter of support for critical pending legislation.
NPA LAUNCHES UNBRANDED DOCTOR CAMPAIGN
Join our network of UNBRANDED DOCTORS--physicians committed to reducing the influence of pharmaceutical marketing on our profession!
New In Our Reading Room
- Medicare Stops Paying for 10 Reasonably Preventable Medical ErrorsMedicare starting Wednesday will no longer pay hospitals for additional care resulting from "reasonably preventable" errors....
-- Kaiser Family Foundation, Oct 1, 2008 - Medical Community Takes Steps To Prevent Pharmaceutical Industry Influence Amid Recent CriticismSome major universities have begun to examine their policies on funds that they receive from pharmaceutical companies amid criticism from Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)....
-- Kaiser Family Foundation, Sept. 11, 2008 - National Medical Associations Join Together to Host Voter Registration Drives Across CountryThe American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the National Physicians Alliance (NPA) and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) launches the RxVote Campaign, a national voter registration effort....
-- Medical New Today (9/3/08) - Stanford University To Limit Pharmaceutical Industry Financing of Continuing Medical Education Stanford University officials on Tuesday plan to announce a new policy under which pharmaceutical and medical device companies no longer will have the ability to select continuing medical education courses that they seek to finance for physicians....
-- Kaiser Family Foundation, August 26, 2008 - FDA Strengthens Policy on Screening Advisers for Conflicts of InterestUnder the new guidelines, medical experts with more than a $50,000 financial interest in companies cannot serve on advisory committees that review their products or the products of their competitors....
-- Kaiser Family Foundation, August 5, 2008 - Curbs eyed for sales of W.Va. info to drug makersWith a national study calling West Virginia the most medicated state in the nation, some lawmakers are questioning the sale of information about state patients and doctors to the pharmaceutical industry.
-- CNN Money, July 29, 2008 - Drug Industry to Announce Revised Code on MarketingThe pens, pads, mugs and other gifts that drug makers have long showered on doctors will be banned from pharmaceutical marketing campaigns under a voluntary guideline that the industry is expected to announce Thursday.
-- NYT, July 10, 2008 - NPR Series Examines Health Care Systems in Five European NationsNPR, in series titled "Health Care for All," recently examined the health care systems in five European nations, which have lower health care costs than the U.S. and provide a higher quality of care on several measures. Links available.
-- Kaiser Family Foundation, July 10, 2008 - NEJM Editorial: "Why Doctors Should Worry about Preemption"A leading drug company may be poised to win a landmark legal victory next fall. If...Wyeth, prevails in a case soon to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court ... drug companies could effectively be immunized against state-level tort litigation....
-- NEJM, July 3, 2008 - Medicaid reaches more in MarylandMaryland is patching together expanded coverage for the low-income uninsured
-- Baltimore Sun, July 1 2008