U.S. lawmakers blast Mylan CEO over ‘sickening’ EpiPen price hikes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday blasted Mylan NV Chief Executive Heather Bresch for sharply increasing prices for the EpiPen emergency allergy treatment at a congressional hearing in which Republicans and Democrats questioned the reasons behind rising U.S. drug costs.

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Essentials of Emergency Medicine Fellowship: Residents Apply to Win!

Do you have a passion for education and emergency medicine? Essentials of Emergency Medicine (EEM) is one of the largest live emergency medicine educational conferences in the world. Inspired by the contest operated by EMCrit and ALiEM, the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine is partnering with CanadiEM to offer a Canadian emergency medicine resident the […]…
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University of Washington scientists assess the possibilities for electricity generated by tidal currents in Puget Sound, including environmental impacts.

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Highlights from this issue

Editor’s Choice: Speaking of the gender gap

The fall is conference season for emergency medicine—RCEM, EuSEM, ACEP all hold their major scientific meetings in September and October. At these meetings we learn from experts in our field about how to improve our practice. In this month’s Editor’s Choice article, Carley and colleagues report that the gender balance of the experts at EM meetings is a bit lopsided. Only 30% of presentations at 8 major EM conferences in 2014&nda…
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Editor in Chief Dr. Foad Nahai discusses the newly published January 2016 issue highlights of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal and identifies several choice articles that are must-read. Please join our conversations on Twitter: @ASJrnl and Facebook: Aesthetic Surgery Journal.
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Senate Republicans seek probe of Mylan EpiPen oversight

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mylan NV faced new scrutiny over price hikes for its anti-allergy EpiPen on Tuesday, with U.S. lawmakers calling for a probe of oversight of the company’s rebates to government healthcare plans, while West Virginia said it was investigating whether Mylan defrauded its Medicaid department.

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9 Steps To Retire In Style With A Nurse’s Salary

The harsh reality about nurses and retirement is that most of us are not thinking about it. Which is strange, considering that our profession is a part of the reason why life expectancies continue to get longer. The CDC has…
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Changing Cancer Care at Stanford Medicine X

The past weekend we spent at Stanford Medicine X, listening to intere…
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On Blogging and Participatory Medicine

Medicine X films is a project that aims to shine a light on the thought leaders and innovators in emerging technology and medicine.

Our third film profiles ePatient Britt J. Johnson. She talks about blogging and Participatory Medicine.

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SGEM#142: We Need Asthma Education

Podcast Link: SGEM142 Date: January 5th, 2016 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Chris Carpenter is from Washington University, Deputy Editor of Academic Emergency Medicine and faculty member of Emergency Medical Abstracts. Dr. Brian Rowe is a Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of Alberta. He is a Canadian Research Chair in Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine and is also […]…
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