Why Trump's comments on mental health have drawn attention to a Penn professor's work
A 2015 paper by Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy Assistant Professor Dominic Sisti has roared back into conversations as pundits re-evalute how individuals like...
Why UCSD keeps denying a genital mutilation study involving Kenyan girls
For years, a distinguished UC San Diego economist has wanted to stop young girls in Kenya from undergoing genital mutilation by offering them and their families money toward...
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell is a senior project manager working in the Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE). Prior to joining CHIBE, he worked in Penn Medicine's...
"Will robots replace doctors?" Bob Kocher and Zeke Emanuel
A 2017 study out of the Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT showed that an artificial intelligence (AI) system was equal or better than radiologists at reading mammograms...
Will Walmart’s Health Care Gamble Pay Off?
Pushing deeper into the high-risk business of health services, Walmart has opened its first standalone primary care clinic in suburban Atlanta. Walmart Health, which has a...
With time running out, an ALS patient fights with Biogen over expanded access to its drug
From STAT (subscription required to read the full article) When Biogen declined to allow an ALS patient to participate in a clinical trial under compassionate use,...
Without oversight, electronic prescribing can harm patients
By Liisa Laine and Jason Doctor "The use of electronic health record systems in doctors’ offices and hospitals has hit a major speed bump, and rightly so, with the federal...