The National Academy of Social Insurance announces Isabel M. Perera as the winner of the 2019 John Heinz Dissertation Award
The National Academy of Social Insurance announces Isabel M. Perera as the winner of the 2019 John Heinz Dissertation Award. Perera joins a prestigious and diverse network of...
The Navy SEAL and is doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up 2 lives
REWIRED is a two-part inewsource investigation into a promising and experimental brain treatment that has sparked mayhem for the doctor who developed it and the Navy SEAL who...
The new Alzheimer’s drug is the first of its kind. Will it be the last?
From Vox: The FDA’s recent approval of the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab is a crucial crossroads in the continuing search for a cure for this devastating disease. Federal...
The New Face of Medical Advice: The Online Pregnancy Forum
Last September, three months pregnant with my first child, I began to feel shooting pains in my abdomen. I surmised that this was round ligament pain, a typical pregnancy...
The Next Generation of Episode-Based Payments
Medicare bundled payments have become a cornerstone of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) reimbursement program, in efforts to reduce healthcare costs. A...
The Perils of “Survivorship Bias”
From Katy Milkman, PhD, in The Scientific American: My colleagues and I, we’ve been spending a lot of time looking at medical decision-making. Say you walk into an...