New Checks and Balances For Big Pharma
By ROBERT PEARL, MD “Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered,” the saying goes. And so may it prove to be true for the pharmaceutical industry. Three articles, a...
By ROBERT PEARL, MD “Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered,” the saying goes. And so may it prove to be true for the pharmaceutical industry. Three articles, a...
By ROSS KOPPEL and HAROLD THIMBLEBY The world is reeling from the massive ransomware attack on at least a hundred nations’ computer systems. The unprecedented m...
BY CARL FRANZEN While Congress ponders a true fix for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), consider this about health coverage. Problem #1, Can’t Use It: Healthy peop...
By RICHARD WAGEMAN, MD Two recent hospital admissions and the medical record dictation records events, visits, and documentation of physical examinations that d...
By HANS DUEVEFELT, MD Now, I’m just a country doctor, but I have to say I find it very hard to understand why folks in this country on one hand keep talking abo...
By JILL MERRIGAN We know improving health through design doesn’t happen overnight, so we decided to extend the submission date for the HxRefactored Design For H...
By MICHAEL MILLENSON You (or a loved one) has cancer, but the latest round of chemotherapy has unfortunately had only a modest impact. While you’re acutely awar...
By KENNETH BARTHOLOMEW, MD My big brother Bill, may he rest in peace, taught me a valuable lesson four decades ago. We were gearing up for an extended Alaskan w...
By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE The recent debate over the potential repeal and replacement of the ACA, with the current focus on coverage for preexisting...