I'm recovering from a bout of COVID. Sick as I was, the bug bothered me much less than RFK Jr.s' attack on the CDC. The post RFK Jr. DNR’d the US Healthcare System appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
Forget the 2004 horror film set in AG John Ashcroft's ICU room. RFK Jr. is no Dick Cheney and Donald Trump is no George W Bush. In today's horror story at the CDC, as the movie lingo puts it, the shooting is coming from inside the house. The post CDC Shooting 2.0 – It’s Coming from Inside the House appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
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
The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 176 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted Aug. 4-10, 2025. A total of 3,554 panelists responded out of 3,784 who were sampled, for a survey-level response […] The post Methodology appeared first on Pew Research Center.| Pew Research Center
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchSteven Shepard, Associate Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateAndy Cerda, Research AnalystJoseph Copeland, Research AnalystShanay Gracia, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystRolando Ortega, Former […] T...| Pew Research Center
The U.S. Postal Service, Park Service, Weather Service and NASA are viewed favorably by Republicans and Democrats, while views of ICE are deeply polarized. The post Republicans’ Views of Justice Department, FBI Rebound as Democrats’ Views Shift More Negative appeared first on Pew Research Center.| Pew Research Center
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
Hospital-at-home is reshaping acute care. Emergency medicine must claim a seat at the table to lead this change or risk being sidelined in this new era. The post Hospital at Home Is Here: An Opportunity EM Can’t Ignore appeared first on ACEP Now.| 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
Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create the Center for Humanities-based Health AI Innovation (CHHAIN). The new center and three-year initiative aims to create ethically responsible and trustworthy AI for health care that uses history and patient narratives to shape the technology, according to a release. It represents a collaboration between the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy ...| InnovationMap
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 American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is excited to announce that Brandy Spaulding, DC, will join its staff team as vice president of health policy and advocacy. Dr. Spaulding brings a wealth of experience from her six-year tenure as executive director of the Ohio State Chiropractic Association as well as her 20 years in private practice. [...] Read More... The post ACA Welcomes Dr. Brandy Spaulding to Its Policy and Advocacy Team appeared first on ACA Today.| ACA Today
When I tell classmates they should be contacting lawmakers, I usually get the same response: “I’m too busy,” or “I wouldn’t know what to say.” But the truth is, if you’re a chiropractic student, you already have what it takes to be an advocate. And right now, your voice matters more than ever. One of [...] Read More... The post From Capitol Hill to Campus: Why Chiropractic Students Need to Step into Advocacy appeared first on ACA Today.| ACA Today
Explore how Africa can achieve lasting impact with digital health innovations through sustainable foundations like policy, financing, and community ownership, as discussed at the Vitendo Symposium.| VillageReach
Arlington, Va. — The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has updated its coding guidance for doctors of chiropractic when providing evaluation and management (E/M) services on the same date as chiropractic manipulative treatment (CMT). ACA’s white paper on the topic, available to members on the ACA website, provides not only added clarity, but also includes scenarios [...] Read More... The post ACA Updates Coding Guidance for Evaluation and Management on Same Day as CMT appeared first...| ACA Today
By Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers’ Alliance As the World Conference on Tobacco Control unfolded in Dublin this week, a powerful visual protest captured a fundamental injustice: consumers, the very people most affected by tobacco policies, remain systematically excluded from global decision-making. The “Voices Unheard – Consumers Matter!” campaign featured a light show […]| Brussels Report
Africa’s telehealth future can’t rely on copy-paste models. Success requires local design, community trust, and systems built from the ground up.| VillageReach
As federal public health funding and its workforce face sweeping changes, a panel at HJ25 discussed the future of the system at large.| Association of Health Care Journalists
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
Voters in as many as nine states could sidestep their legislators and directly decide whether to expand access to abortion through citizen-led ballot initiatives.| Louisiana Illuminator
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