Dollars for Docs Widget

The Dollars for Docs Widget from ProPublica lets you track which doctors/health care providers are taking Pharma money.

"As part of ProPublica’s “Dollars for Docs” series and interactive news application, we've created a small widget that you can embed on your web site. It will let your readers look up whether their health care providers are taking money from the drug companies in our database. The widget shows the amount of money paid to each practitioner in our database, which company made the payment, and in some cases, what the companies saidthey were paying for: speaking fees, consulting, etc. The widget also lists what drugs each company sells so readers can check their own prescriptions.
We’ll be keeping this data up-to-date roughly quarterly, and the widget running on your site will always have the latest data."

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/use-our-dollars-for-docs-widget-on-your-site

We are going to grab this gadget, and hope you do too!

News: Pharma Training Doctors

Looks like the foxes are still in charge of the henhouse, and as long as that is so, good health diagnosis and helpful natural healing modalities and maintenance will not be of as much interest to physicians as they should be.

Pfizer Giving Stanford $3 Million Grant For Improving Doctors' Training
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/01/by_scott_hensley_a_leading.html
Lilly Endowment Awards $60 Million to Indiana University School of Medicine
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=277600013

What happens when drugs, money and education mix? Read BLIND FAITH.

Twelve Things We'd Say About Health

... if we weren't afraid of getting sued"
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