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		<title>Lip Service &#8211; but No Word from Science Editors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after HIV co-discoverer Luc Montagnier MD accepted a Nobel Prize that Robert Gallo MD didn’t receive, Semmelweis Society International (SSI) endorsed a demand by 37 scientists and researchers for the journal Science to retract Gallo’s four original reports.  What happened since then?]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2012/01/21/lip-service-but-no-word-from-science-editors/</link>
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		<title>Surgeon Wins $4.7M Settlement in Long-Running Dispute With Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A surgeon who complained about the safety of reprocessing practices at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the subsequent restriction of his privileges there is entitled to the multi-million dollar arbitrated settlement the hospital agreed to pay him in 2009 but later attempted to reverse, a California appeals court has ruled.]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/06/04/surgeon-wins-4-7m-settlement-in-long-running-dispute-with-hospital/</link>
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		<title>Jury Awards $8.8 Million to Anesthesiologist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas - In the six years since Dr. Charles Williams lost his privileges at University Medical Center, the anesthesiologist also lost his professional reputation, his family and his home.]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/06/02/jury-awards-8-8-million-to-anesthesiologist/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Kolkhorst Needs Help to Keep TMB Reform Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[18 May &#8211; As Chairwoman of the House Public Health Committee, Rep. Lois W. Kolkhorst has demonstrated her commitment to ensuring that physicians are afforded legal due process whenever they have dealings with the Texas Medical Board (TMB). She has done a yeoman’s job in writing the provision to HB 3816 during the 2009 Legislative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/05/18/rep-kolkhorst-needs-help-to-keep-tmb-reform-alive/</link>
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		<title>Is Dr. Andrew Wakefield a Victim of Sham Peer Review?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10 May&#124;Washington DC - For over 20 years,  the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has quietly awarded millions of dollars in damages for vaccine injury to children where their brain damage results in autism.  At the same time, the US government has publicly denied a vaccine-autism link, while pressuring parents to blame the autism-spectrum brain injuries on non-autism causes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/05/10/is-dr-andrew-wakefield-a-victim-of-sham-peer-review/</link>
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		<title>Texas House Unanimously Passes Medical Board Reform Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9 May - The Texas House passed HB 1013 today by a vote of 147-0, endorsing crucial reforms necessary to make the actions of the Texas Medical Board (TMB ) transparent.  This action sends a message that the TMB&#8217;s unconstitutional actions will no longer be tolerated by the Texas House. Rep. Fred Brown, who has advocated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/05/10/texas-house-unanimously-passes-medical-board-reform-bill/</link>
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		<title>Will You be the Next Subject of Peer Review?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[11 March &#8211; One day, you receive a letter from your hospital&#8217;s medical executive committee (MEC) informing you that you&#8217;re going to be the subject of a peer review.  What you do next can determine whether you&#8217;ll be exonerated at the hearing, be forced to undergo &#8220;corrective action&#8221; such as continuing medical education or proctoring, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/03/25/will-you-be-the-next-subject-of-peer-review/</link>
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		<title>Medical Peer Review Used to Silence MD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4 Jan &#8211; In the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, a peer review drama is unfolding. Petitioner R.V. Rao has taken on Washington Township Health Care District, Respondent, re its judicial review committee. In a nutshell, a conflict is now in about its 8th year. The conflict arose after Dr. Rao questioned administrative proceedings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2011/01/07/medical-peer-review-used-to-silence-md/</link>
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		<title>Why We Still Kill Patients: Invisibility, Inertia, and Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[25 Dec/AHRP &#8211; Between 1978 and 1999, 2.5 million American men, women and children died preventable deaths in US hospitals and 17 million suffered preventable injuries.  Two recent reports confirm that American hospitals continue to cause serious preventable harm to patients. The question, that Michael Millenson asks in HealthAffairs is, WHY?  Why has the medical profession failed to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2010/12/28/why-we-still-kill-patients-invisibility-inertia-and-income/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Against Texas Medical Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 6 &#8211; The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled against the Texas Medical Board (TMB), allowing landmark litigation by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeon to proceed to prove wrongdoing by the Board. Among the claims of &#8220;pervasive and continuing violations of&#8230; constitutional rights&#8221; by the TMB, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://semmelweis.org/2010/12/11/u-s-court-of-appeals-rules-against-texas-medical-board/</link>
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