August 20, 2025
A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
Healthcare
August 18, 2025
EHR Notes Reveal Potential Racial Bias in Doctors’ Perception of Patient Credibility
(HealthDay News) – Clinician documentation undermining patient credibility may disproportionately undermine Black individuals An analysis of more than 13 million electronic health record (EHR) notes shows potential racial bias in how doctors document patient trustworthiness, according to a study published … Read More
August 18, 2025
A New Reality for Terminal Cancer: Longer Lives, With Chronic Uncertainty
(Wall Street Journal) – Orilio is part of a new era of cancer treatment challenging the idea of what it means to have and survive cancer. A small but growing population is living longer with incurable or advanced cancer, navigating … Read More
August 15, 2025
Why a Michigan man waited over a month in the hospital for stroke rehab
(NBC News) – His doctors recommended that he start an intensive rehab program within days of his stroke. “Almost immediately they started telling me that the No. 1 most important thing now is to as quickly as possible get me … Read More
August 6, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 4, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 1, 2025
Feds Launch Experiment to Have Medicare Cover GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs
(Gizmodo) – The federal government may not have closed the window on paying for GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound after all. The Trump administration is reportedly planning to conduct an experiment that will allow some people to … Read More
August 1, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 30, 2025
A New Edition of Bioethics Is Now Available
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 6, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 29, 2025
UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
(New York Times) – The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media. Ms. Strause had no way of knowing it, but the video … Read More
July 28, 2025
UnitedHealth Grew to Be a Leviathan. Then Came the Backlash.
(New York Times) – The conglomerate was viewed as one of the most successful companies in America, but patients are enraged and investors have lost faith in its business model. UnitedHealth Group emerged as a health care colossus over the … Read More
July 21, 2025
Hospitals scoop up physician practices, driving prices up
(Axios) – Hospitals are steadily buying small physician practices and, in the process, driving up the price of care, a new National Bureau of Economic Research study shows. Why it matters: It’s the latest evidence of consolidation in health care … Read More
July 18, 2025
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
(NPR) – Health insurance premiums are going way up next year for people who buy their insurance on Healthcare[dot]gov or the state-based marketplaces, according to an analysis out Friday. The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be … Read More
July 17, 2025
Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
(AP) – Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United … Read More
July 17, 2025
Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed
(New York Times) – Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, … Read More
July 16, 2025
New Articles from BMC Medical Ethics Are Now Available
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
July 14, 2025
A New Edition of Hastings Center Report Is Now Available
Hastings Center Report (vol. 55, Issue 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 11, 2025
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 9, 2025
The World Bank set out to transform health care for the poor in Africa. It drove patients deeper into poverty.
(ICIJ) – A surge in private equity funding for hospitals left a trail of crushing debts, patient detentions and broken promises. In over 70 interviews, former and current doctors, nurses and executives from [International Finance Corp]-backed facilities in Kenya and … Read More
July 9, 2025
Prosecutors Question Doctors About UnitedHealth’s Medicare Billing Practices
(Wall Street Journal) – The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare-fraud unit is investigating UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare billing practices, including how the giant company deployed doctors and nurses to gather diagnoses that bolstered its payments, people familiar with the matter said. The … Read More
July 7, 2025
She Paid $1 Million to Join a Senior Facility. Its Bankruptcy Wiped Her Out.
(Wall Street Journal) – Among nearly 2,000 of these types of facilities nationwide, at least 16 of them have filed for chapter 11 since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, according to a Wall Street Journal review of court … Read More
July 2, 2025
A New Edition of Nursing Ethics Is Now Available
Nursing Ethics (vol. 32, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 1, 2025
A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.
(KFF Health News via MSN) – In the early days of the West Texas measles outbreak, Thang Nguyen eyed the rising number of cases and worried. His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of … Read More
June 30, 2025
SCOTUS upholds Obamacare free preventive care coverage
(Axios) – The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to a section of the Affordable Care Act that designates a federal task force to recommend which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients. Why it matters: … Read More
June 30, 2025
A New Edition of Developing World Bioethics Is Now Available
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 25, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
