After covering health care for so many years, I don't often come across a story that makes me say, "Wow, I didn't know anything about that." But Chad Terhune of the Los Angeles Times had a story on May 27 that, for me at least, was an eye-opening account of ...Last week was life-changing for Bob DeMarco, author of the Alzheimer's Reading Room blog. It was the week that his beloved mother, Dotty – the inspiration for his blog – died.
Regular readers knew that Dotty was failing because DeMarco wrote about the end of her life as he writes about ...Please welcome our newest professional and student members to AHCJ. All new members are welcome to stop by this post’s comment section to introduce themselves.
Esther Amar Kagan, publisher, Israel Science Info, Paris, France
Lori Baker, independent journalist, Mesa, Ariz.
Robert Carlson, medical editor, DailyRx.com, Sitka, Alaska (@sitka1867)
Jonathan Chapman, student, Meharry ...According to my mother, it sometimes isn't enough to just say you're sorry. In The Kansas City Star, Alan Bavley writes that, apparently, some physicians disagree. In particular, an organization called "Sorry Works!" thinks that apologies are powerful enough that they should provide doctors with immunity from some malpractice ...The future of services for our aging population will be shaped by the future of technology.
A small example of this important trend appeared last week in a Bloomberg BusinessWeek article by Jane Applegate. She wrote about a new line of walking shoes outfitted with GPS devices that can help track ...NationalJournal's Margot Sanger-Katz reports on the sometimes woeful state of American dental care, especially for low-income children. And yes, her piece is datelined "HAZARD, Ky." But that's where its anecdotal focus ends and Sanger-Katz paints the bigger picture.
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The United States faces a shortage of dentists that ...Drug rebates aren't the headline grabbing element of health reform; for some of us they are probably in the eye-glazing category.
But Medicaid drug rebates do change a bit under the Affordable Care Act, and various proposals about rebates have surfaced – and will again – in the perpetual debates about ...Reuters' Frederik Joelving reports that a new, easier method of taking biopsies to detect esophogeal cancer, called TSA, has opened a up a whole new profit center for folks pushing cancer screening, despite the fact that, as Joelving writes, "there is no research showing that routine screening for esophageal cancer ...
Carlos Fuentes, who has died aged 83, will be honoured at the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.Following up on reporting efforts from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today and ProPublica, a Senate committee has launched investigation into the pharmaceutical industry's conflict-of-interest-laden promotion of pain management drugs, one of which may or may not be related to one pharma-tied patient organization's Tuesday announcement that is was closing up ...