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Getting There

Imagine you are in a room full of diverse people, with differing…

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Bad News for Evidence-Based Medicine

Bruce Booth, a venture capitalist explains the perils of investing in companies…

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A Few Notes on Hospitals, and US Health Care Spending

What’s wrong with this headline: “Falls in hospitals are not preventable and…

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Employers as Doctors

Major employers across the country, eager to curb fast-rising healthcare costs, are…

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The One Medicare Program that Actually Works

This is Avik Roy, writing in National Affairs: This is Avik Roy,…

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Cheap Generic Drugs from Emerging Markets Risky

Poorly made medicines are a greater threat than counterfeit medications, according to…

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Why I’m Not Having More Children

A man over 40 is almost six times as likely as a…

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To Heal a Heart, Train Harder

Traditionally, heart patients were encouraged to begin slowly and work up to…

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Pharma R & D Spending is Down

And that’s probably bad news. Here is Megan McArdle, writing in The…

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Imagine: EMRs Without Big Brother

I now have more health information on my wrist than my doctor…

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