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Reform, Pay Cuts to Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor Hospitals. Analysts…

GlennLaffel GlennLaffel

FDA Approves Roche (Genentech) Skin Cancer Drug–Zelboraf

Cancer drugs certainly are not cheap and for a year, this one…

BarbaraDuck BarbaraDuck

Why Profit Is Our Best Friend

One reason why entrepreneurs do what they do is that they want…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

NanoViricides Reports Positive Anti-viral Effect of HIV Drug

NanoViricides (OTCBB:NNVC) announced Monday that its anti-HIV drug candidate, HIVCide, achieved a…

HerinaAyot HerinaAyot

Pharma Companies Closing Down Facebook Sites

The main reason of course here is for the chat and discussion…

BarbaraDuck BarbaraDuck

Spine Surgery is an Exception to the Usual Country Market Rules

A great many markets for medical technologies have similar market drivers, economics,…

PatrickDriscoll PatrickDriscoll

Partners Health Care acquiring Neighborhood Health Plan: The 800-Pound Gorilla and the Fig Leaf?

 Partners Health Care (the dominant provider network in Greater Boston) and Neighborhood…

David Harlow David Harlow

Ethicist’s Take on Concierge Medicine is a Misdiagnosis

Arthur Caplan, a leading bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, published a…

Thomas Pane Thomas Pane

How Much do Financial Incentives Matter to Physicians?

In this experiment, medical students were paid under fee-for-service and capitated payment…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Emergency Department Charges

     Have you been to the emergency room lately?  Everyone tries to…

Gary Levin MD Gary Levin MD