Tool weighs potential health, economic tradeoffs in pandemic response | Hub
Johns Hopkins-led effort offers powerful new tool to aid health policy by integrating personal decision-making into disease prediction model| The Hub
Trump-GOP's refusal to negotiate on health care subsidies is a Dickensian death panel: "If they would rather die, ...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." The post Trump’s GOP Death Panel in Progress appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
Johns Hopkins-led effort offers powerful new tool to aid health policy by integrating personal decision-making into disease prediction model| The Hub
There are crucial questions about what causes autism and how to prevent and address it.| The Hastings Center for Bioethics
This proposal reflects a broader shift toward more restrictive oversight of inpatient utilization. As CMS finalizes this policy, providers should be aware of the immediate compliance and reimbursement risks associated with the phase-out.| MedCity News
Health & Medicine’s Executive Director, Margie Schaps, recently shared her perspective in the Chicago Sun-Times on the devastating impact of the newly passed “Big Beautiful Bill.” In her letter to […] The post New Op-Ed: Very few left unscathed with ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ appeared first on Health & Medicine Policy Research Group.| Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
ACEP Now offers real-time clinical news, news from the American College of Emergency Physicians, and news on practice trends and health care reform for the emergency medicine physician. ACEP Now is an official publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians.| ACEP Now
One evidence review of the literature on gender affirming care for youth. Two evidence reviews on gender affirming care for youth. Three evidence reviews on gender affirming care for youth! (Well, “evidence review” might be stretching it for two of these three.) So many reviews! First we had the Cass Report out of the UK, […]| QueerDoc • Trans Online Doctors Office
Public health experts from Johns Hopkins share their insights on the FDA's approval of over-the-counter Narcan, which puts the lifesaving medicine in everyone's reach| The Hub
The Oregon Department of Justice has published an explanation of the Oregon shield law and its protections for gender affirming care.| QueerDoc • Transgender and Gender Diverse Online Healthcare
By standing with tenured faculty and powerful political operatives against contingent researchers and trainees at Stanford, President Jonathan Levin has already betrayed academic freedom, writes Mallory Harris.| The Stanford Daily
Whether we know it, or like it, our bodies are polluted by tiny fragments of plastic that fail to break down in our earthly environment. What does that mean for our long-term health, and what can we do about it?| Scope
Some researchers and clinicians are questioning the value of the body mass index, which estimates a person’s body composition. But do better alternatives exist?| Scope
Researchers find ED visits more than doubled from 2021 to 2022 and call for federal legislation and regulation to address this child hazard.| Pediatrics Nationwide
Each November, the American Medical Association (AMA) Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates is held. The House of Delegates is a policy and legislative body comprising nearly 500 elected physicians. The House of Delegates convenes under one roof with delegates from each state and specialty society to discuss the direction of medicine and medical advocacy for the coming six months. The following topics were at the forefront of negotiations at this meeting in November 2023.| Biomedical Odyssey
CDC has added COVID-19 vaccines to the childhood schedule, but that does not make it required for school. Only states can require vaccines.| Shot of Prevention
Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.| Random Critical Analysis
Prices are not inexplicably high; America spends more because it consumes much more per person.| Random Critical Analysis
Linking to my primer on fundamental misconceptions about health care -- so that it may be discovered by blog readers.| Random Critical Analysis
No, @Noahpinion, we can spend proportionally more on health care and still consume much more of everything else. This is easily explained by relative prices (ultimately productivity).| Random Critical Analysis
US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns elsewhere; obesity, drugs, etc drive down the intercept (mostly)| Random Critical Analysis
Last week, Hubert Biscuit posted a response on Medium questioning the relevance per capita income to national health expenditures. Here’s more on the debate about the source of high US health…| Random Critical Analysis
Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll recently wrote a piece for the New York Times re-hashing Uwe Reinhardt’s fifteen-year-old argument (“It’s The Prices, Stupid”) that high prices expl…| Random Critical Analysis
As I mentioned in two (long) posts on how comprehensive measures of household consumption or disposable income explain high US national health expenditures (NHE) rather well, I believe US health ex…| Random Critical Analysis
