Policy and Practice

Global Elite are Bored with Health, Just When It’s Getting Really Exciting

Our global leaders may regret not paying more attention to what is happening in health: help middle-income countries leap past…

3 years ago

Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?

A central question for scientists championing boosters is why rates have stalled among people 65 and older.

3 years ago

What Patients Know About Saving Money and Improving Care

The importance of one key source of frontline healthcare insights — patients.

3 years ago

The Power of Lifestyle Choices – The Dose of Truth in “Heal Thyself”

“You need to lose weight.”   Doctors say that to patients every day.  What they don’t do is tell patients how…

3 years ago

Cutting-Edge Innovation Is Not Enough To Save Lives

Yesterday, my 97-year-old physician father-in-law died.  His longevity was the result of great medical advances during the past two decades,…

3 years ago

Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

[Reprinted with permission from Kaiser Health News - Author Jordan Rau. The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including…

3 years ago

Was 2019 a High-Water Mark for Global Public Health?

There is a reason most children today live into adulthood, women around the world no longer feel like surviving childbirth…

3 years ago

Aiding and Abetting a Virus

Viruses are the ultimate freeloaders. The best among them — influenza, smallpox and SARS-CoV-2 — spread easily among human hosts…

3 years ago

Deep Roots Help This Chicago Pharmacist Avoid Creating Another Drugstore Desert

[This article, authored by Markian Hawryluk, appeared in Fortune and KHN News and is reprinted with permission.] CHICAGO — Del-Kar Pharmacy…

3 years ago

Inadequate or Unqualified Therapy Because of Low Medicaid Reimbursement?

Reimbursement rates shouldn’t determine whether or not someone receives adequate treatment for anything, including mental health therapy. But, too often,…

3 years ago

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