Shivan J. Mehta
Dr. Mehta is a gastroenterologist who leads a variety of projects across the health system focused on developing and testing new delivery and payment models for care through...
Shopping for Health Insurance? Buyer Beware, Especially If You Have Cancer
In an op-ed published by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Laura Yasaitis, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI); Daniel Polsky,...
Should FDA Grant Accelerated Approval to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy?
On May 12, independent experts narrowly recommendedopens in a new tab or window that the FDA grant accelerated approval to Sarepta's new gene therapy, SRP-9001...
Should Physicians “Prescribe” Cannabis?
An LDI Policy$ense ethical analysis by Aaron Glickman and Dom Sisti, PhD "Over the last decade, medical cannabis has moved from the fringe to the mainstream—at least in...
Should You Find Out if You’re at Risk of Alzheimer’s?
With a simple at-home genetics test, some people are learning they have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s. Can they do anything to prevent the disease?
Shouldn't Docs Who Spread False COVID Info Lose Their Licenses?
From WebMD: it's not clear that US physicians who are not government officials have any legal obligation ― as opposed to a moral obligation ― to the government or the...
