Top health care experts meeting at the Institute of Medicine last week delivered a stern message to the nation’s 15,000 oncologists and their patients: Either learn to…
Gilead Sciences has set the wholesale price for its new once-a-day HIV/AIDS pill: It’s $28,500 a year. That works out to $78 per pill.Earlier this year, the…
Obesity rates have doubled over the past two decades and will almost double again over the next two decades unless the public comes to grips with its…
Journalist-turned investment banker-turned auto bailout czar Steven Rattner provocatively calls for “not quite” death panels in an op-ed in today’s New York Times. Noting a quarter of…
Every reputable budget analyst recognizes that dealing with the long-term budget deficit depends on holding government health care costs in check. One line in Republican presidential candidate…
Medicare has moved to the center of this year’s presidential campaign for a single overriding reason: shrinking the nation’s long-term government deficit demands dealing with health care…
The number of states hiking cigarette taxes to raise revenue while curbing smoking has slowed to a crawl.Just one state, Illinois, has enacted a tobacco tax increase…
Five years ago in the wake of the Vioxx scandal, Congress passed tough new distribution rules for companies whose prescription drugs pose a serious risk to patients…
By Michael Halpern(The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog) By Michael Halpern(The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog)About a year ago, some medical…
