Health Facts and Studies
AAMC Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education Report (for consideration June 2008)
Association of American Medical Colleges
An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease
The Milken Institute
An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease West Virginia Report
The Milken Institute
DEA State Fact Sheet for West Virginia
State Health Facts
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
State Health Facts West Virginia Report
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
National ADAP Monitoring Project Annual Report, April 2008
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The National ADAP Monitoring Project Annual Report provides the latest data on state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). The report, the 12th in an annual series, was prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
SureScripts National Progress Report on E-Prescribing, December 2007
The inaugural National Progress Report on E-Prescribing is an at-a-glance summary of key statistics detailing the status of e-prescribing adoption and utilization in the U.S. Beginning with statistics from 2004, the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange’s first year of operation, the report tracks actual electronic prescription activity through 2007 and includes projections for 2008. The report includes a detailed analysis of the individual variables that influence e-prescribing and concludes with a series of recommendations on how to accelerate e-prescribing adoption and utilization.
USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Survey:
The Public on Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceutical Companies
March 2008
This poll, the third in a series conducted jointly by USA Today and public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, by USA Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds Americans greatly value prescription drugs’ potential benefits for their families, but most believe they cost too much money.
Kevin Outterson West Virginia Pharmaceutical Cost Management Council Member
The Vanishing Public Domain:
Antibiotic Resistance, Pharmaceutical Innovation and Global Public Health
University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 67, pp. 67-123, 2005
This Article describes the vanishing public domain of exhaustible pharmaceutical knowledge and begins a discussion of the public domain which extends far beyond copyright...