Don’t Let Lance Armstrong’s Crash Dampen Your Cancer Hope
For years cancer survivors rode along with Lance Armstrong, the phenomenal cyclist. Many of us wore the yellow bracelets of the LIVESTRONG cancer charity. I went through several until the…
A Baby Has Special Health Care Needs
Why Are A Baby's Health Care Needs Different Than Ours? A baby has special health care needs that are different than adults or even older children. They have not been…
How Physicians Can Adapt to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
There's been a lot of speculation about what will happen to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)--commonly referred to as a Obamacare--if Mitt Romney is elected in November. Although Mr. Romney…
Texas Health Plan May Strand Thousands of Women
Texas our Texas (Photo credit: jmtimages)The state of Texas is famous for many things – from the Alamo to oil. However, being “women’s health friendly” certainly isn’t on the list.…
Health Workers Mobility Around the World
In some Gulf states, more than 50% of health workers are migrants. 75% of Mozambican doctors and 56,000 indians physicians work abroad. In some Gulf states, more than 50% of…
High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare Video Interview Series: Neel Shah and CostsOfCare
Last week, we joined Jeanne Pinder of ClearHealthCosts in New York City to talk about cost transparency in healthcare. Today, Neel Shah joins us from Boston to speak about his…
The Changing Focus of Medical School Admissions: People Skills Required!
When I was applying to medical school in 1991, a stellar GPA and near perfect MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) score would almost guarantee admission to a student’s medical school of choice.…
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Says No to Cancer Drug Zaltrap for Colorectal Cancer-Avastin Works Just As Well and the Cost is Half
I think we may see more of these types of studies and the two doctors do state they have been paid consulting fees from Genentech (Roche) who makes Avastin. Avastin…
Linking Meaningful Use and HIT Sector Consolidation
Since January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have implemented incentive programs to drive meaningful use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) technology – software and support tools that…
Introducing the Global Fund Forum
When the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created in 2002, it was intended to combat the global burden of these diseases while simultaneously delivering aid…
