Ronald Hansen on the NIH’s Planned Drug Development Center (transcript)
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Ron Hansen of the University of Rochester. David Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of…
Obesity and its Growing Prevalence Globally
Overweight and obesity were once considered a problem only in high-income countries. This is no longer the case: overweight and obesity are dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income…
New Zealand Making a Renewed Effort to Attract Patients from the US With Non-Tort Surgical Procedures-Medical Tourism
Last year New Zealand started promoting medical tourism and the company Medtral has now established an office in California to further promote traveling to New Zealand. With only 4…
US Medical Device Companies Look to Europe and Other Countries for Approval and Sales-Some Not Even Selling Here While We Over Inflate Value on Social Algorithms
The approval process too has been hit by economics. Due to the money needed to be spent for FDA approval, some companies simply don’t have the money to go through…
The Department of Health and Human Services Makes Effort to Increase PCIP Rolls
By the close of 2010, the Obama administration had hoped that roughly 375000 healthcare consumers would take advantage of the national high-risk insurance pool, known as the government’s Pre-existing Condition…
Estimating Lifetime or Episode-of-Illness Costs Under Censoring
How can you estimate an individual’s total lifetime cost of medical care? For people who die in your sample, this is simple. In most data sets, however, not all individuals…
Health in a Networked Life
Markle identified some interesting social and cultural findings in their survey Health in a Networked Life. They include: Many doctors and patients surveyed believe key information is lost in their…
How PPACA fixes some of the problems of Part D
One of the most infuriating and hypocritical elements of the GOP’s attack on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the complaint about its cost. The non-partisan Congressional…
CMS Chief Answers to Congress, Provides Few Details on Reform’s Early Progress
The first opportunity for the House to fire questions at Obama recess appointee (to CMS head) Donald Berwick, MD took place yesterday. Berwick took the time to affirm that the…
Klein: Decision on Individual Mandate Could Come Down to Kennedy
Prognostications and general predictions aside, the often polarized nature of the SCOTUS lends itself to easy expectations of the high court’s decisions on many key issues. Hot buttons such as…
