Insured, But Still Barred From Top-Tier Cancer Centers
Choosing a cheaper health plan could cost you access to cream-of-the-crop cancer doctors and facilities, a new study reports. Less-expensive "narrow network" health plans...
'Internal Competitiveness' of Docs Spurs Improvement
Medscape's Nick Mulcahy quotes Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, in an article about interventions that can change clinician behavior. "'Getting physicians to change their prevalent...
Is it possible to change bad behavior - permanently?
“With the recently launched Behavior Change for Good Initiative, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Angela Duckworth and Wharton professor of operations,...
Is the Alzheimer’s Association really pushing Biogen to lower its new drug’s price — or is it lip service?
From STAT: The Alzheimer’s Association stunned Washington last month when it urged Biogen to lower the price of its new Alzheimer’s drug — an extremely rare rebuke on drug...
Is the American identity undergoing a transformation?
Warren Olney talks with Ezekiel Emanuel, former health care advisor to President Obama and now a member of Joe Biden's Public Health Advisory Committee about his new book...
Is the WHO Definition of Health Aging Well? Frameworks for “Health” After Three Score and Ten
On April 7, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) turned 71—surpassing the proverbial life span of “three score and ten.” Its definition of health as a “state of complete...