January 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Healthcare industry leaders gathering in San Francisco for an annual conference typically discuss dealmaking, bestselling drugs and how to entice their next big investor. This year another topic is foremost on their minds: Staying safe. The … Read More
January 13, 2025
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 21, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 9, 2025
(NBC News) – The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research. A yearlong bipartisan congressional investigation into two private equity-backed U.S. hospital systems found that patient care … Read More
January 7, 2025
(NPR) – The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ban … Read More
January 7, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 6, 2025
(KFF Health News) – “Insurance covers a knee replacement if it’s covered with skin, but if it’s covered with plastic, it’s not going to cover it,” said Jeffrey Cain, a family physician and former chair of the board of the … Read More
January 6, 2025
(STAT News) – Advocates worry about cuts to long-term care as well as home- and community-based services The changes would dramatically alter states’ budgets and could curtail or end care for millions of people with disabilities. Two expensive programs in … Read More
January 6, 2025
(Axios) – Mounting public anger over health insurance is leading more state legislatures to eye tighter oversight of the industry, starting with its use of AI to screen claims and issue denials. Why it matters: While congressional scrutiny of the … Read More
January 6, 2025
(Axios) – Charging patients to message their doctors through portals could reduce health worker burnout and modestly lightened clinicians’ workloads at the Mayo Clinic, researchers said. Why it matters: More health systems have been charging to answer patient queries since … Read More
January 3, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – From a humble base, it gobbled up big chunks of the U.S. health system, including doctor practices, pharmacy-benefits managers and medical billing services UnitedHealth recorded $372 billion in revenue last year—making it about the same size … Read More
January 3, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
December 31, 2024
(ProPublica) – Health insurers frequently review patients’ progress to see if they can be moved down to a lower — and almost always cheaper — level of care. That can cut both ways. They sometimes cite a lack of progress … Read More
December 30, 2024
(The Hill) – A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee offers a critical look at the CIA’s handling of cases of unexplained health incidents, determining its approach hindered its ability to care for staff and alienated employees. The Friday report on … Read More
December 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The government’s Medicare Advantage system, which uses private insurers to provide health benefits to seniors and disabled people, pays the companies based on how sick patients are, to cover the higher costs of sicker patients. Medicare … Read More
December 27, 2024
(The Guardian) – Drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro are an attractive prospect for online businesses and traditional pharmacies as well as the firms that make them It is a trend rooted in profit-making. Adverts featuring prescription-only weight-loss medications are … Read More
December 27, 2024
(Reuters via Yahoo! News) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from … Read More
December 27, 2024
(The Washington Post) – Overdose deaths have reached record levels in the United States in recent years. Despite signs of decline, the number of people dying nationwide from overdoses has eclipsed 100,000 annually between 2020 and 2023, according to national … Read More
December 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Since the late 1990s, drug companies have spent tens of billions of dollars on television ads, drumming up demand for their products with cheerful jingles and scenes of dancing patients. Now, some people up for top … Read More
December 27, 2024
(ABC) – From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include the discovery of a cause of an autoimmune disease, the development of a “game-changing” drug and potential hope … Read More
December 27, 2024
(Wired) – By learning lessons from other sectors, public health can ensure it is ready to face future outbreaks in record time. Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are … Read More
December 24, 2024
(STAT News) – In the wake of the tragic murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, all of us who serve in health care must take time to pause and reflect on how we move forward. As a religious sister and … Read More
December 23, 2024
(NBC News) – Health care sharing ministries advertise reimbursements for members’ medical bills. But they are largely unregulated, and most have restrictions on maternity coverage. One service ministries commonly restrict is maternity care, for which many require a waiting period … Read More
December 23, 2024
(New York Times) – Shuttered drugstores pose a particular threat to older adults, who take more medications than younger people and often rely on pharmacies for advice. Nearly 30 percent of pharmacies in the United States closed between 2010 and … Read More
December 23, 2024
(CNBC) – “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” analysts ask in an April 10 report entitled “The Genome Revolution.” “The potential to deliver ‘one shot cures’ is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy … Read More
December 23, 2024
Clinical Ethics (vol. 19, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
