Myth Busters #5: Hospital Rate Setting
With the repeal of the Health Planning Act in 1982, a lot of health policy wonks found themselves out of work. They had to come up with something new to…
NanoViricides Reports Positive Anti-viral Effect of HIV Drug
NanoViricides (OTCBB:NNVC) announced Monday that its anti-HIV drug candidate, HIVCide, achieved a positive, long-term effect with fewer and weaker doses than the traditional anti-retroviral combination therapy. In a recent study…
InVivo Therapeutics Treats the Spinal Cord Itself, A Novel Technology
Frank Reynolds, President and CEO of InVivo Therapeutics was interviewed by OneMedRadio where he describes the company’s strategy in bringing its unique spinal cord injury (SPI) products to market. …
Pharma Companies Closing Down Facebook Sites
The main reason of course here is for the chat and discussion from adverse affects from drugs, and the fact that as big as the companies are, who wants to…
Spine Surgery is an Exception to the Usual Country Market Rules
A great many markets for medical technologies have similar market drivers, economics, regulatory restraints and other features, resulting frequently in market sizes that can be fairly accurately predicted on the…
New Guide For Male Caregivers Available
A new book, Who Says Men Don't Care? is written specifically for four generations of male caregivers. A new book, Who Says Men Don't Care? is written specifically for four…
Greedy Insurance Company Backs Down: The Little Guy Wins!
A few months back, while we were on vacation in Washington, D.C., my 17-year-old son Noah sustained an injury at 1:00 a.m. I was asleep, but this is usually a few…
Partners Health Care acquiring Neighborhood Health Plan: The 800-Pound Gorilla and the Fig Leaf?
Partners Health Care (the dominant provider network in Greater Boston) and Neighborhood Health Plan (a local mostly-Medicaid HMO) just announced that the former intends to acquire the latter, and maintain…
Ethicist’s Take on Concierge Medicine is a Misdiagnosis
Arthur Caplan, a leading bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, published a Medscape video editorial on August 4th discussing the ethics of concierge medicine. Titled “Concierge Practice: Unjust for Patients…
End-Use Verification: Simple but Potentially Powerful
When budget cuts loom and all the issues are big and thorny, one is naturally attracted to the small and overlooked initiatives that might make a difference. I recently discovered…
