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The state board charged with protecting Californians from bad doctors is doing too little, too late. Complaints about physician mistakes and misconduct…
Mar 17, 2008Information from pharmacies could go to drug firms Pharmaceutical companies could gain access to medical records to send reminders to patients to…
Mar 16, 2008Even though California faces a budget crisis and the state appears to be sputtering into a recession with home mortgage foreclosures at…
Mar 14, 2008When a Senate committee killed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ambitious health care proposal, it was the culmination of months of debate, hearings and…
Mar 14, 2008Future officials at California's fledgling stem cell research agency got a hefty raise this week. The board of the California Institute for…
Mar 14, 2008Santa Monica, CA -- The insurance affiliate of the Automobile Club of Southern California (the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club) will…
Mar 14, 2008Refunds averaging $187 are in store for 120,000 policyholders of the Automobile Club of Southern California who were charged higher rates on…
Mar 14, 2008I was blown away by a conversation I had with a Silicon Valley insider who told me the technologists at Google were…
Mar 13, 2008
I spent the morning down at the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles listening to lawyers for Farmers Insurance try to convince…
Mar 13, 2008City Beats New York, D.C. -- Scientists, Investors To Attend MADISON, WI -- Wisconsin's capital city will host an international stem cell…
Mar 13, 2008California's stem cell research agency on Wednesday raised top pay levels for its executives and lead lawyers 23 percent and then, less…
Mar 13, 2008Physician has advised board on grants Marie Csete, an Emory University physician and researcher who specializes in transplant anesthesiology as well as…
Mar 13, 2008Legal battle not over, experts say Patent rights, belonging to a Wisconsin academic foundation, to grow human embryonic stem cells were affirmed,…
Mar 13, 2008The federal government has upheld two more UW-Madison stem-cell patents, meaning all three patents under contention can stand. But expected appeals on…
Mar 12, 2008MADISON, WI -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office officially upheld Tuesday the two remaining patents on stem cell technology held…
Mar 12, 2008My doctor’s office made a new, and pretty scary, request this morning. It was a routine visit, and when I paid my…
Mar 12, 2008MADISON, WI -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office upheld the two remaining embryonic stem-cell patents in support of UW-Madison researcher…
Mar 12, 2008Author Received $21,000 from Bill Benefactors SACRAMENTO, CA -- A consumer advocate will speak out against proposed legislation that would create a…
Mar 12, 2008