Vaccine Financing: Assessing Progress and Envisioning Future Directions
As the GAVI Alliance gears up for its pledging conference in June, a CGD panel reflected on progress and lessons learned in financing GAVI since 2001 and explored implications…
Paul Ryan’s Medicare Reform Falls Short
The Medicare part of Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, Path to Prosperity, is superior to the status quo, or anything proposed by President Obama. Unfortunately, it falls short of the high…
California Insurers Slash Number of Doctors You Can See
The new health reform law removes health insurance limits on spending, but gives insurers free reign to limit the doctors and hospitals you have access to. A strange discrepancy that…
Hospitals Are Hiring More Physicians
Basically, it’s illegal for a hospital to give a physician a “kickback” for a referral. But it is legal for a hospital to buy the referrals by hiring the physician…
NSAIDs Linked to Erectile Dysfunction
The use of Motrin, Aleve and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) is associated with erectile dysfunction, according to a study by scientists affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. The apparent link surprised…
Stem Cells Grow an Eye Retina
This is only the beginning but a good start for the eyes with stem cell treatments. The retina was grown in a dish and later down the road who knows…
Cost of Medical Errors: $17 billion
Its has been well established that medical errors are a serious problem in modern health care. One study found that medical errors kill between 50k and 100k annually and another…
Bill McGuire on Wireless Health and Technology
The following article was originally posted in mobihealthnews by Brian Dolan. McGuire: The Land Grab is Misguided The former chairman and CEO of United Health Group Dr. Bill McGuire recently…
Painless Injections Make Child Vaccine Delivery Easy
AtriCure (NASDAQ:ATRC) founder, Michael Hooven‘s next project could change the way children are injected with vaccines. Hooven politely declined to provide much detail on Cincinnati-based Enable Injections, saying that the…
Challenges of Healthcare of Gays & Lesbians under Reform
Euphemistically, the population of gay and lesbian adults in this country has always been labeled “the ten percent”, owing to the presumptive political implications that have become significantly mainstream since…
