$1 billion antibiotic venture fund launched
Antibiotic resistance is a problem. One study from Europe found that in 2015 there were 33,110 deaths attributable to antibiotic resistance...Read More
The COVID-19 Pandemic – Insurer Insights Into Challenges, Implications, and Lessons Learned
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has placed enormous pressure on virtually all facets of U.S. society. Much attention has appropria...Read More
Feeding our health heroes: it takes a village
Across the country, health care workers are selflessly caring for their communities during COVID-19 and beyond. The Durh...Read More
Essential Worker Shoulders $1,840 Pandemic Debt Due To COVID Cost Loophole
Carmen Quintero works an early shift as a supervisor at a 3M distribution warehouse that ships N95 masks to a nation under siege from the co...Read More
Health care in Ukraine
Recently I read an interesting book called Moneyland by Oliver Bullough . The book describes how with porous borders facilitated by the inte...Read More
The need for continuous cost-effectiveness analysis
At drug launch, treatments have some benefit and cost. However, drug prices may change over time. Additionally, treatment benefits may rise ...Read More
Paddling: social distancing and serenity in one
The racks at the Great Outdoor Provision Co. store in Chapel Hill are typically stocked with canoes and kayaks. They wer...Read More
Is the cost to bring a drug to market $48 million or $2 billion?
A recent paper in BMJ Open by Moore et al. (2020) aims to estimate the cost of pivotal trials for recently approved drugs. The authors use...Read More
Is Social Distancing Weakening Our Immune Systems?
Discover how social distancing and wearing a mask can impact the strength of your immune system. Based on the most up-t...Read More
AI and health care: Where are we now?
There has been much hype about how artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize health care. Has it been able to do so? According to a The...Read More
The Scoop: June 24, 2020 Edition
In this edition COVID-19 enrollment windows extended in Maryland, Massachusetts, California Oklahoma voters will decide next week whethe...Read More
Effects of Medicaid Health Plan Dominance on the Health Insurance Marketplaces
Medicaid insurers have become increasingly dominant in many of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplaces. In the early yea...Read More
Ghost Bill: UVA Siphons Couple’s Tax Refund To Pay 20-Year-Old Medical Debt
The notice from the Virginia tax department puzzled a Charlottesville couple last October. It said their state income tax refund had been re...Read More
How to get patients to use telemedicine? Charge for parking
What factors predict use of telemedicine? A paper by Reed et al. (2020) uses primary care data from Kaiser Permanente between 2016 and 2018...Read More
Managing Chronic Pain During the Pandemic
COVID-19 has amplified the impact of chronic pain, which impacts 20 percent of Americans and is the leading cause of dis...Read More
Why We Can’t Rely on Health Insurance Alone to Guarantee Universal Immunization Against COVID-19
Many Americans are pinning their hopes on a vaccine to bring COVID-19 to heel. But, as George Washington University and CHIR experts outline...Read More
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