Tag: healthcare business

Does Your Plastic Surgeon Take Plastic?

Increasingly, doctors, dentists and especially physicians who treat patients paying out-of-pocket are…

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Discretion is the Better Part of Health Care

To people in what I call the health policy establishment, the riddle…

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White House Names Former Microsoft Executive as Next US CIO

$80 billion a year is what is spent by the government on…

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Sweetened Drinks Boost Heart Disease Risk. Beverages sweetened with fructose or high-fructose…

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Marketers Hope to Boost Salad Consumption. Americans are in a salad rut,…

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Merck To Cut 13,000 More Jobs in The Next 4 Years

Some of this is the results of the Schering-Plough merger and the…

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Institute of Medicine Calls for Overhaul of Device Regulation

The Institute of Medicine committee that’s been reviewing medical device regulation for…

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Humans Alone in Brain Shrinkage. Human brains shrink as people grow old,…

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Entitlements and Estate Taxes: the Medicare Connection

I really liked Dr. David J. Gross’s letter to the Wall St.…

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