Media coverage of new public health regulations often seems to follow a template: The [regulatory agency]’s plan to implement [public health regulation] is causing controversy among [businesses affected] and [individuals who object]. While public health officials say the plan is… Read More ›
Dr Robert Potenza and Dominica Potenza, partners in life and in work, are, respectively, a cardiologist and a registered nurse who have a cardiology/internal medicine practice in the Bronx. (Dominica, who is pursuing a Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Hunter… Read More ›
Recent recommendations that advise laboratories and physicians how to tell patients about incidental findings in genetic tests contradict ethical clinical practice, according to bioethicists at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics in California. A working group convened by the American… Read More ›
President Obama spoke extensively about implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during his recent press conference, particularly about what it means for people: So there are a whole host of benefits that, for the average American out there, for… Read More ›
On April 1, India’s Supreme Court ruled against drug company Novartis regarding its claim for a patent on the lucrative and widely used cancer drug imatinib (marketed by Novartis as Gleevec in the United States and as Glivec elsewhere). To… Read More ›
Nearly half of all US working-age adults—about 84 million people—were uninsured or had too little health coverage to protect them from high out-of-pocket medical costs last year, according to a new survey. The Commonwealth Fund 2012 Biennial Health Insurance Survey… Read More ›
There are few minutiae of health care economics that policy wonks love to fight about more than insurers’ administrative costs. These are costs for things like management and marketing that are not directly related to care delivery. Are they too… Read More ›
Children and adolescents who are injured by firearms are more likely than youth who have injuries resulting from other causes to require intensive care and to die, according to an analysis published in JAMA today. As state and federal legislators… Read More ›
“The rich are different from you and me. They have more money,” a cynic once noted. The modern-day version would add a deeply troubling observation: and they live longer too. The gap in life expectancy between the better off and… Read More ›
A complication after surgery is something patients and physicians want to avoid, but certain types of payments to hospitals appear to reward suboptimal care and penalize quality care, according to study findings appearing today in JAMA. The study found that… Read More ›
