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The day has finally come: We have covid vaccines for kids under five. There are lots of questions and a few concerns. Let’s address them!

The day has finally come: We have covid vaccines for kids under five. There are lots of questions and a few concerns. Let’s address them!
Joe Biden has won the 2020 Presidential election. But there is a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and the chances of Democratic control
We talk a lot about different areas of health research, and how that research may lead to treatments. Today we’re talking about research into healthcare
Charles Ornstein reports on the latest chapter in research access to Medicare Advantage encounter data: The government has collected [Medicare Advantage] data on patients’ diagnoses
You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard about a blockbuster JAMA paper looking at the relationship between income and life
Vox seems to be getting a lot of clicks for a new paper claiming that there are “too many scientific studies out there.” Mind you,
I have been blogging lightly as of late because tomorrow is my oldest’s Bar Mitzvah, and that has consumed much of my free time this week.
A reader tipped me off to this letter from the National Association of ACOs. If the federal government is unwilling to reform patient consent for
I’ve received a lot of questions about CMS’s deletion of substance use disorder related claims from research Medicare and Medicaid files, which seems to have been done without
As Austin wrote last week, CMS has begun withholding from researchers Medicare and Medicaid claims data relating to substance use diagnoses and related procedures. The
I’ve heard from trustworthy sources that in its Medicare and Medicaid research data files, CMS is no longer including claims for patients with certain alcohol
From the annals of studies that make me sigh, “Numeracy and Literacy Independently Predict Patients’ Ability to Identify Out-of-Range Test Results“: Background: Increasing numbers of