1) A drug maker hid the results of tests from regulators showing that the diabetes drug, Avandia, was riskier for... View Article
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1) Republicans plan to live-stream their meeting with lobbyists later this week. http://bit.ly/9LDSEA 2) Lawmakers are hiding their earmark requests... View Article
Continue readingObligatory LeBron James Post
How can you tie in transparency to LeBron James’ mid-career migration to Miami? According to Center for Responsive Politics, James... View Article
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1) Congressman Greg Meeks of Jamaica, Queens paid back a $40,000 loan that he didn’t report on his personal financial... View Article
Continue readingLabs Olympics: Automate your life with geocron
geocron, a Labs Olympics experiment, automates your life based on your location.
Continue readingReid gets support from drug companies after preserving deal in health care reform
The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to wade into the 2010 midterm elections in support of those that helped to preserve... View Article
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Continue readingWhere are they now?: Former Senators of 2006 and 2008
The 2010 midterms are fast approaching and it looks like some senators will be out of a job by next... View Article
Continue readingLack of disclosure protects bad nursing home firms
The pattern of understaffing at Skilled Healthcare Group's 22 California nursing homes could have raised red flags for patients and their families, but ownership information is currently difficult to obtain. The company has been ordered to pay $670 million for violating California state staffing minimums. A portion of the fee, the result of a class action lawsuit, is intended to refund patients for the quality of care they received.
Nursing Home Compare, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) site that allows the public to evaluate nursing home performance, does not yet identify the names of nursing home owners ...
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