Business of Medicine
Feature
Trump administration salutes parade of generic drug approvals, but hundreds aren’t for sale
More than 700 generics, or about 43%, still weren’t on the market as of early January, a KHN data analysis of FDA and drug list price records...
Conference Coverage
Hearing drills into patient impact of ACA legal challenge
A ruling for the plaintiffs in Texas v. United States also would mean the ACA’s consumer protections for employer-based coverage would be...
Feature
President Trump calls for end to HIV/AIDS, pediatric cancer
Health care was addressed in speech more focused on immigration, a nod to unity, honoring vets, and featuring Congressional women dressed in white...
Feature
Winners and losers under bold Trump plan to slash drug rebate deals
“A shadowy system of kickbacks,” was how Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar described the current system in a speech on Feb. 1.
From the Journals
Shifting drugs from Part B to Part D could be costly to patients
The impact would vary based on the drug, as well as patients’ insurance coverage in addition to Medicare.
Med Tech Report
Breaking down blockchain: How this novel technology will unfetter health care
One evening in 2016, my 9-year-old son suggested we use Bitcoin to purchase something on the Microsoft Xbox store.
Opinion
Medical ethics and economics
It’s up to physicians to build an ethical wall between interests in clinical research.
From the Journals
Anxiety, depression, burnout higher in physician mothers caring for others at home
While the study did not examine physician fathers, caring for someone with a major illness or disability more frequently falls to women.
Latest News
Drug-pricing policies find new momentum as ‘a 2020 thing’
Spurred on by midterm election results that showed health care to be a deciding issue, lawmakers are pushing a bevy of new proposals and...
News
Useful financial and efficiency advice to practices is hard to come by
Cold Iron Truth
Strategic planning for physicians