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R & D tax credits forever? The drive to make the current federal R & D tax credit permanent is fueled by this statistic: the United States is ranked 24th out of 38 developed nations in R & D incentives. The bipartisan legislation was introduced this week.
Obamacare beats its deadline, confusion still reigns. The Obama administration met a deadline to appeal the Florida court decision overturning the president’s healthcare reform laws. The appeal will likely be heard this summer and the Supreme Court may get to it before the next presidential election.
5 Health Reasons to Ditch Concrete Jungles for Countryside
In an increasingly urbanized world, the allure of countryside living is growing stronger, especially when it comes to health and well-being.
Yet even with the stay, Florida will isn’t moving forward with healthcare reform.
Nursing strikes in Boston? Nurses at five hospitals – including Tufts Medical Center in Boston – are said to be planning a five-day nurses strike close to the Easter holiday.
META analysis forgets funders. Researchers who review several sets of large drug trials don’t take financial backing into account.
A geyser of medical idiocy? In The Pipeline’s Derek Lowe has just about had it with pharma critiques that are, in his words, a “geyser of idiocy” and a “waste of electrons.”
What Healthcare Can Learn from Costco
The path forward is clear: employers must evaluate their health plan the same way they do their Saturday shopping excursion.
Honestly, I really think that we should make a bigger deal out of clinical failures in this industry, so that people realize that (1) we’re always trying to do something, (2) it doesn’t always work, and (3) it costs a godawful amount of money. As it is now, no one outside of the industry really notices or remembers when the giant multi-year research programs go down in expensive flames. And that leaves the door open for knuckle-dragging stuff as quoted above, and for the fools who believe it.