“Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his body.” Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, Schloendorff v Society of New York Hospital, (1914) For many years, medical students working to master… Read More ›
The size of the US health care industry is increasing rapidly, and the cost of health care now exceeds 18% of the gross domestic product. State governments play a major role in paying for health care through their Medicaid programs… Read More ›
Immigration reform is a topic about which many people in the United States are passionate. It involves not only concerns about economic interests, but national security as well. Our health care system is especially sensitive to alterations in immigration policy…. Read More ›
On May 25, 2016, Sen John Barrasso (R, Wyoming) introduced the Protect Continuing Physician Education and Patient Care Act of 2016, a measure intended to exempt pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers from reporting payments made to physicians for receiving… Read More ›
A recent report by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee on the financing and governance of graduate medical education (GME) considered an important question for health care in the United States: to what extent does the current GME system, which… Read More ›
Many leaders at academic medical centers are doing double duty, serving on the boards of pharmaceutical companies and being paid handsomely for it, finds an analysis published in JAMA today. Nearly half of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies worldwide have… Read More ›
Some medical communications companies such as Medscape/WebMD that offer online continuing medical education (CME) programs receive millions of dollars from pharmaceutical and device manufacturers and share information such as a physician’s licensing number and specialty with unnamed third parties, warn… Read More ›
