Pfizer announced that it has given up on developing a drug that many males were following closely.
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Category Archives: Health Care
President Bush names fellow Texan to run Medicare and Medicaid
President Bush announced that Dr. Mark B. McClellan, the food and drug commissioner, will be named to run Medicare and Medicaid, the health insurance programs for more than 70 million Americans. Dr. McClellan, 40, is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, the brother of the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, and a son of the Texas comptroller, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who has been carrying on a public spat with Governor Perry and has hinted that she might run against Governor Perry in the 2006 Republican Primary.
UT-Houston Docs get back to correct research
The Chronicle reports that the FBI has investigated The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and found no evidence that employees regularly accessed child pornography websites. The investigation was commenced after a UT-Houston auditor expressed concern last fall that a number of employees, including physicians, might have violated child predator laws when they visited porn sites on UT Houston computers. An earlier post about this matter is here.
Health Care Finance Concerns Continue
The New York Times carries a front page story today regarding the increasing trend of employers to restrict health insurance coverage for their retirees. In my view, the failure of the Bush Administration to address the spiraling problems in the health care finance system in the United States is an issue that will cause President Bush trouble in the upcoming Presidential Campaign.
Wrong Type of Research, Docs
The Houston Chronicle reports today that the FBI has commenced an investigation into teen porn websites that certain individuals at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston apparently visited on a regular basis. The UT Health Science Center is home to the University of Texas Medical School, one of two medical schools (Baylor Medical School is the other) in Houston’s famed Texas Medical Center.
The Kirkendall family has long and deep ties with the UT Health Science Center. My late father–Dr. Walter M. Kirkendall–was a longtime and loved Professor of Medicine at the UT Medical School at Houston from 1972 until his death in 1991, and the school still holds an annual lectureship in his name. I also have a brother (Matt of Dubuque, Iowa) and sister (Mary of Boerne, TX) who graduated from the UT Medical School at Houston.