Today, Medicare and Medicaid mark their 55th birthdays, a day that should remind us of the damage that ill-conceived healthcare reforms can inflict. Little did President Lyndon Johnson know when he signed the programs into law that he’d be setting the …
The move to slap price controls on prescription drugs will be a disaster, wrecking our cutting-edge pharmaceutical companies and foisting a sicker future on us.
The second-most populous nation has its work cut out to deal with a surge in domestic infections and global turmoil.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Dave Wessner explains how infectious diseases get their names, and why using those names properly is an important aspect of fighting them.
With the news that nearly $6 million Americans have lost their employer-sponsored health due to COVID, it is finally time to ask ourselves: is the “American Model” of health care working? The “American Model” is a system of fragmentation: one in which …
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have deleted a viral video titled “America’s Frontline Doctors” that attracted millions of views with dubious claims about hydroxychloroquine.
91% of the state’s counties are above the threshold for acceptable virus transmission level.
Other European nations, such as Germany and France, are also seeing their numbers rise after lifting some of their toughest restrictions.
Other European nations, such as Germany and France, are also seeing their numbers rise after lifting some of their toughest restrictions.
Five years ago, if you asked oncologists at my practice to name the list price of a given chemotherapy agent, most wouldn’t have known–unless they were executives, maybe. Pharmaceutical reps rarely talk about costs. The EMRs don’t give list price…
