Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Gambling as a public health issue (Lancet)

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  Here's a warning about gambling from the Lancet: The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling    October 24, 2024 "Executive S...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Do Americans Drink Too Much? Politics and science in the debate over guidelines

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  The WSJ has the story:   Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington . Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fi...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Gaming the health care system; David Cutler's concerns

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 The eminent Harvard health economist   David Cutler is worried by, among other things, the takeover of many healthcare facilities by privat...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Global pacemaker retransplantation

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  There are innovative approaches to global health care.  Here is one, that involves reusing pacemakers recovered from deceased donors and r...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Who Shall Live? (3rd edition) by Victor R. Fuchs and Karen Eggleston

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Shortly before he passed away in September at the age of 99, Vic Fuchs finished the third edition of his book Who Shall Live? , now with a c...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Vic Fuchs (1924-2023)

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My friend and neighbor Vic Fuchs, the dean of American health economists, passed away on Friday.   He was just a few months short of 100, bu...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Can Britain Fix Its National Health Service?

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 The NYT has the story A National Treasure, Tarnished: Can Britain Fix Its Health Service? As it turns 75, the N.H.S., a proud symbol of Bri...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Harm reduction is not a panacea: drug use and drug policy in Portugal, and San Francisco

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 The Washington Post has a story about Portugal, and the SF Chronicle has one as well. Both stories touch on the tensions between treating d...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes

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  The Washington Post has the story: Canada to require health warnings on individual cigarettes  By Sarah Dadouch "Beginning next year...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Market Shaping at the University of Chicago: Promoting needed innovation

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  One of many exciting talks yesterday at the first day of the New Directions in Market Design conferen ce was by U. Chicago's Rachel Gl...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) at 75

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 An editorial in Nature considers the complicated history of  the World Health Organization.  The WHO at 75: what doesn’t kill you makes you...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Incarceration isn't always the best treatment for drug addiction

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  Here's a NY Times editorial: America Has Lost the War on Drugs. Here’s What Needs to Happen Next.    Feb. 22, 2023 It begins with this...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Gay couples, surrogacy, IVF and health insurance

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  The Guardian has a story about the obstacles consulting a married gay couple in New York. They have an ongoing lawsuit regarding discrimin...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Opioid prescription and curtailment are associated with increased rates of suicide among rural veterans:

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 Chronic pain, followed by prescription of opioid pain medicines, is sometimes followed by opioid addiction.  A recent NBER working paper sh...
Monday, August 16, 2021

Alain Enthoven on fragmented American health care

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 Writing in Health Affairs, Alain Enthoven notes that most American workers insured through their jobs work for self-insured employers, i.e....
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Guns and public health: research funds available again

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  Here's the story, from the Journal of the American Medical Association: Gun Violence Researchers Are Making Up for 20 Years of Lost Ti...
Friday, February 19, 2021

The 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project (including kidney exchange)

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  The goal of the 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project is to shift the way we think about health care spending in the US and offer a road...
Friday, January 1, 2021

Hypertension: the surgeon general calls for a New Year's resolution

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  The U.S. Public Health Service has issued the following call to action on high blood pressure, which affects many Americans, differentiall...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

De-adopting zombie medical procedures

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What happens to medical procedures that are found to be no more effective than placebos?  Some live on for quite a while. One thing that wor...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

PNAS celebrates Janet Currie

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 The National Academy of Sciences celebrates Janet Currie in the current issue of PNAS, with an interview and an inaugural article. QnAs wi...