Defending Tiered Health Plans
Tiered health plans cutting costs, restricting options in today’s Boston Globe raises…
Joint Commission Says Texting Orders is a No-No, But Maybe Docs Are On To Something
The Joint Commission has issued a statement indicating that health care professionals…
Yanking Avastin’s Breast Cancer Indication –the Right Thing To Do
As expected the FDA today removed Avastin’s approval for use as a…
Massachusetts: Land of Affordable Health Insurance
The Commonwealth Fund just released a sobering analysis (State Trends in Premiums…
Bigger Carrots and Painful Sticks to Improve Medication Adherence
As you’ve probably read by now in the New England Journal of…
Time for Higher Income Seniors to Pay More for Medicare
I’m pleased to learn that the super committee is seriously contemplating having…
Maybe Walmart Should Open a Hospital Instead
GOOD IDEA! - Kaiser Health News and NPR found a request for…
Why You Won’t See a Bold Medicare Plan From Mitt Romney
Kaiser Health News tries hard to understand Mitt Romney’s Medicare plans and…
Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: A Surgeon Makes the Case (podcast)
Open surgery is still the most common way to perform a hysterectomy,…
Off-Label Drug Promotion and the First Amendment
Doctors can and often do prescribe medications for different purposes than what…