Congressman Darrell Issa: FDA's email monitoring of "whistleblowers" communicating with Congress was illegal

In followup to my post of Jan. 30, 2012 "Can You Sue the Government? FDA Whistleblowers Sue Over Surveillance of Personal e-Mail" I provide a link to a probing letter from Darrell Issa, Chairman, US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to Margaret Hamburg MD, Commissioner of the FDA.The letter raises the issue that FDA's email monitoring of "whistleblowers" communicating with Congress was illegal ("unlawful, and...

atlanta was a blast!!  well worth the effort it took to get there and so much fun to see old friends!!  one thing i LOVE about atl is the shopping.  i get so much inspiration from the stores there!!  here are some of my go to shops there:Gramercy: amazing bedding, headboards, monograms and the girls who run it couldn't be any cuter!!Pieces: i mean, pieces is just the bomb....

My Sump-Pump Analogy for the ß-Cell

I'm going to try to make this as short and to the point as possible.  It's just me thinking out loud a bit, drawing on the massive amount of peer review research I've read on the topic -- a mere fraction of which I've formally blogged on -- but without any references so that I can just get this out there.  No ... this is not some manifesto grand theory on diabetes and all that to be analyzed and picked apart as if I'm presenting this as...

Death at Birth: A Tragedy Caused by Overwork and Undertraining - and Technology

As a result of my recent post "Plaintiff's Trial Lawyers Are to Blame for EHRs That 'Tattle' on Doctors - And Harm Patients", a malpractice attorney, Patrick Malone in Washington, D.C., sent me a link to a tragic summary of a case his firm handled.The story illustrates the toxic effects that health IT and other technology, especially when not "done well", can have on patient care.I present it below with just a bit of comment, with permission of...