Why Health Coaching Helps
<p>A coach <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coach">is defined</a> as a person who is tasked with teaching or training others, usually in conjunction with athletic...
View ArticleThe Price of Consciousness
<p>Earlier this month, the New York Times (NYT) reported on individuals in a minimally conscious state (MCS). Although the article headed: ‘<a...
View ArticleAdvocating Pill, U.S. Signals Shift to Prevent AIDS
[The New York Times]Federal health officials recommended Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for AIDS take a daily pill that has been shown to prevent infection with the virus...
View ArticleThe Readmission Problem
<p>No one seems to know what the answer is to keeping costs down in healthcare but grand efforts have been undertaken to find someone to blame. Some of the targets are patients, others are...
View ArticlePharmaceutical firms find it hard to exit essential drugs market
[TheEconomicTimes] Pharmaceutical companies having more than a 1% market share for any essential drugs may find it difficult to stop manufacturing those products. Since May, when the government brought...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations
[The New York Times] The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated a federal law...
View ArticleMerck Says It Regrets Strong-Arming Italian Researcher
[Forbes] Merck says that it “regrets” using legal threats to push a leading Italian researcher to muffle his public critiques of one of the company’s cholesterol drugs. Merck spokesman Steve Cragle...
View ArticleIs It Possible To Do Bioethics In Contemporary America?
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Ok, I realize I am being somewhat provocative. But there is a real and very serious issue, which I...
View ArticleAs Doctors Lose Clout, Drug Firms Redirect the Sales Call
[The Wall Street Journal] SAN DIEGO—Kendall French used to pitch drugs to doctors who could prescribe them. But many of those doctors now work for hospitals that don’t give them final say over what is...
View ArticleWhy Buying A Car Is So Unlike Buying Healthcare
<p style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Let’s say you are looking to buy a car. You think you might want to buy a Volvo so you go down to...
View ArticleWill the US Ever Control Drug Prices Like the Rest of the World?
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">Probably not. It’s...
View ArticleThe Unique Challenge of Healthcare Reform in the US, and Why it Might All...
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Those of us who...
View Article“Reasonable Profits” For Pharmaceutical Manufacturers?
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">With the recent success of the blockbuster drug Sovaldi© (Gilead Sciences,...
View Article“Bad Guy” Big Pharma: An Easy Target?
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Do Americans always need an entire...
View ArticleSupport New York State’s Oncofertility Legislation
As I have discussed in previous blogs, fertility preservation for cancer patients is very expensive and it is rarely covered by insurance. Cost is the primary barrier for why cancer patients do not...
View ArticleZeke Emanuel May Not Be Right This Time: Increasing Costs Will Probably Not...
Ezekiel J. (Zeke) Emanuel, MD, PhD, is chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. On May 30, 2016, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by...
View ArticleMaking Progress in Improving End-of-Life Care
This past week the JAMA Network and the Kaiser Family Foundation published a one-page graphic providing the latest data and information about Medicare patients and end-of-life care. JAMA....
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