CDC: Winnable battles, Tobacco Use (many links) Bloomberg law: New & improved SCOTUS blog OMB: Ltr from Jacob Lew to Harry Reid on FEMA/continuing budget
The CEO of Amedisys, one of the largest home health providers in the U.S. says that the industry would rather take the pain of Medicare
For vaccines, positive externalities include herd immunity and reduced transmission of the disease. But vaccines also have potentially negative (or offsetting) external epidemiological effects: namely
It seems that whenever I question the way physicians practice, I make some new enemies. I should know better by now. My father, a retired surgeon,
Black/White racial disparities in health: A cross-country comparison of Canada and the United States, appeared in Archives of Internal Medicine. This study compared estimates of health
Diane Meier, Manish Srivastava, and Amanda Holbrook have a nice op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer describing Palliative Care as a national priority given the aging
I’m constantly telling you what I think of the US health care system, so it only seems fair to talk about what other doctors think
A long post on important topics: Medicare hospital payments, private hospital prices, hospital costs, and market power. In the third chapter of its 2011 Report
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