Page 14 - Group Consumer News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Bill theres plenty of attention on what a poorer start this trading year is off to and not just any day or two days to see this kind of pressure but the two days to kick off the year traditionally not a great sign. Two other markets very quickly. Oil, yes, we continued lower again. Big time. Down another almost 4 on wti. We are now at 48. It did touch the 47 range and brent is threatening to go below 50 at this point. Lets show you if we can the 10year yield. It touched 1. 88. At its lowest point today taking us back the lows of last october. Yes. On your screen there, you are seeing the 10yea...

Association of the association of american medical colleges issued a report calling for much stronger conflict of interest standards, leaders standards, leaders with individual schools saying we just cannot keep going. All of all of those things came together, and the law passed in 2010. But the other piece of context that i think is not proximal to the laws passage but is important to understanding how it fits is this sort of much wider recognition that we really need to understand in this country that drivers of Health Care Costs and where the dollars go, and if you go back to 2,007 it would...

Quality of life of people of color. Were here because no one has put a leash on killer cops, so i have five recommendations. They are, here we go. Number one, we need to have a legitimate citizen review board with the power to fire officers for misconduct. Most cities have Police Complaints as we do here in d. C. But they do not have these powers. They are paper tigers and we need to give them power so they are actually responsible to the people they are serving. We should require significant number of police who work in that community to live in that community. That has been found unconstitut...

Weeds here, to maintain a practicing license has to get a certain amount of continuing medical education every year. And whats happened over the past decade and a half is more and more of that continuing medical education has been funded by the Drug Companies or the companies that make certain products. And the challenge is as the questioner pointed out, the funding passes through and its technically an unrestricted grant and there are various fire walls in place. Everybody who has looked at this from the Senate Investigations to the institute of medicine to the american medical colleges repor...

The physician payment sunshine act. It was a bipartisan piece of legislationo senate by senatorrofz grassley. Republican from iowa. And senator herb kohl a democrat from wisconsin. And the bill sought to lift the veil on the relationship between industry and it was a true piece of Bipartisan Legislation that was founded on a lot of the research that youre going to hear from some of our great speakers today. It was written in conjunction z with the information that we gotrcd from the research community, and the consumer community, represented by pew and allen here today and aarp and amsa and me...