Articles Written by:    SARAH RUBENSTEIN     

Salmonella Risk Spurs More Recalls of Foods With Peanut Butter

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Lab tests found salmonella in an open 5-pound container of King Nut peanut butter from a Minnesota nursing home. The salmonella strain matched those tied to 30 illnesses in the state and across the ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Food and Drug Administration,  Wall Street Journal

Tufts Medical Inks Pay Deal with Massachusetts Blue Cross

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts have come to a truce over how much the insurer will pay the hospital and its doctors for treating patients. It’s not clear exactly how ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal

Medco CEO Wants Health Fed to Set Treatment Rules for Doctors

Snow said the time has come for doctors to follow set protocols on how to treat patients, and to be paid based on whether they do it. Basically, ‘If X, then do Y,’ and ‘If Y, then do Z,’ sort of stuff. Snow concedes the public doesn’t trust the private ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  16 Jan 2009

With Obama in Wings, Policy Wonks Make Health Wishlists

Barack Obama will be sworn in here on Tuesday, before jumping right on health reform. With Barack Obama’s inauguration just days away, policy wonks are itching to get started on an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system. To mark the occasion, the ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  16 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Brookings Institution

States, Advocates Challenge Bush ‘Conscience’ Rule in Court

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Seven states and two family-planning groups have filed lawsuits challenging a controversial regulation allowing health workers to refuse care, such as abortions, that the Bush administration finalized ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  16 Jan 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Planned Parenthood,  American Civil Liberties Union,  Richard Blumenthal,  Wall Street Journal

Roche Cutting Hundreds of Manufacturing Jobs

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. We hate to bring out the layoff ax again so soon, but the legions working for drug companies seem to be shrinking by the day. This time it’s Roche that’s shedding employees. The Swiss drugmaker plans ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  16 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Genentech, Inc.,  Pfizer Inc.,  Wall Street Journal

Medtronic Pays Surgeon ‘$20,000 or More’ — Much, Much More

Public disclosures about financial ties between doctors and industry can be imprecise — to put it mildly. Take Thomas Zdeblick, a prominent spine surgeon and researcher at the University of Wisconsin, who told the university in each of the five years ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  16 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Medtronic, Inc.

Report: Pfizer May Cut Sales Force by Nearly a Third

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. The job ax may fall again soon at Pfizer. Bloomberg reports that Pfizer may eliminate nearly one-third of its sales force. The plan, which is apparently under consideration by senior management, would ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  15 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Pfizer Inc.,  Sanofi-Aventis,  Wall Street Journal

Feds Delay ICD-10 for Two Years

Doctors are getting a two-year reprieve before they’ll have to use the coding system known as ICD-10. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which maintains the U.S. codes for billing and diagnosis, said today it has put the finishing touches ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  15 Jan 2009

Justice Department Beats Chest Over Zyprexa Settlement

WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Eli Lilly has earned a dubious distinction in its $1.415 billion settlement with the Justice Department over off-label marketing of Zyprexa: It’s the largest amount paid by a single defendant in DOJ ...

From SARAH RUBENSTEIN, Wall Street Journal,  15 Jan 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  Pfizer Inc.,  Wall Street Journal

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