For sale: Physicians' prescribing data

Article Abstract:

American health care information companies buy electronic records of prescriptions from pharmacies and other sources and then sell individual physicians' prescribing data to pharmaceutical manufacturers. A growing number of doctors in the US are rebelling against this practice, leading to the creation of a Prescribing Data Restriction Program by the American Medical Association (AMA), as well as plans by some states to enact legislation that would restrict access to physicians' data.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Physicians, Public records, Access control, Records and correspondence, Health care information services, Medical advice systems

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Medical marijuana, physician-assisted suicide, and the Controlled Substances Act

Article Abstract:

The Controlled Substances Act, a 1970 law, is subjected to legal controversies for the medical use of marijuana and physician-assisted suicide. Farms are raided, dispensaries are shut down and suppliers are prosecuted by the Justice Department that has sought to punish doctors who recommend marijuana for medical purposes and prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients by suspending or revoking their Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration.

Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Medicine, Laws, regulations and rules, Medical marijuana, Medical practice

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New technology, old dilemma--Monitoring EEG activity during executions

Article Abstract:

The electro-encephalogram (EEG) device was monitored during the procedure of Willie Brown Jr.'s execution by lethal injection in North Carolina for the 1983 killing of a convenience-store clerk. The monitor of this device resulted in some inmates not being properly anesthetized during executions by lethal injection and experienced painful deaths that violated the constitutional ban or cruel and unusual punishment.

Company legal issue, Cases, Diagnostic equipment (Medical), Execution by lethal injection

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