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Recent podcasts
NEJM Interview: Sara Rosenbaum on the battle over the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
05/09/2007
Professor Sara Rosenbaum is chair of the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Rachel Gotbaum, the interviewer, is an independent producer based in Boston. Supplement to: Iglehart JK. The Battle over SCHIP. N Engl J Med 2007;357(10):957-60.
Perspective (PDF): The Battle over SCHIP
05/09/2007
Reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which was considered a routine matter until recently because of the program's success in expanding coverage to children of the working poor, has become embroiled in a larger struggle over ideologies that divide the political parties.
NEJM Interview: Senator Orrin Hatch on the regulation of follow-on biopharmaceuticals
29/08/2007
Senator Orrin Hatch is a Republican from Utah. Rachel Gotbaum is an independent producer based in Boston. Supplement to: Frank RG. Regulation of Follow-on Biologics. N Engl J Med 2007;357(9):841-3.
Perspective (PDF): Regulation of Follow-on Biologics
29/08/2007
Since modern biopharmaceuticals date back to the 1980s, the first generation of such drugs has begun to lose patent protection. Many analysts have expressed concern that without new U.S. regulations, patent expirations may not be accompanied by the introduction of competing, lower-cost biologic agents - or that imitator products might be approved without sufficient proof of efficacy and safety, posing threats to public health.
NEJM Interview: Jacob Hacker on Michael Moore's movie 'Sicko' and the outlook for reform in the U.S. health care system
22/08/2007
Jacob Hacker is a professor of political science at Yale University, New Haven, CT, and a fellow at the New America Foundation, Washington, D.C. Rachel Gotbaum is an independent producer based in Boston. Supplement to: Hacker JS. Healing Our 'Sicko' Health Care System. N Engl J Med 2007;357(8):733-5.
