Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Family’s History Shows Why.
How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives? More
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Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others
Covid patients who did not speak English well were 35% more likely to die, data from one Boston hospital shows. More
Initiatives to Reduce Cesarean Delivery Rates for Low-risk First Births
Although cesarean delivery can be lifesaving for both the mother and neonate, the increase in cesarean delivery rates has not been associated with any demonstrable improvements in maternal or neonatal morbidity or mortality. More
Antidepressants Not Clinically Useful for Back Pain
While professional guidelines recommend antidepressants for back pain, researchers point out the lack of evidence for their usefulness. More
How are hospitals dealing with price transparency rule?
For the first time, each hospital was required to publish a website file showing the payment rates it had negotiated with insurers, and another post that would let consumers search for hundreds of “shoppable’’ medical services. More
VIDEO: New research on hospital overuse
We're excited to share our new research on hospital overuse just published in JAMA Network Open! More
Inside the fight among Louisiana’s major hospital systems and why it might become public soon
A behind-the-scenes war between some of the state’s largest health systems could soon spill into public view at the State Capitol, after months of negotiations broke down over an obscure but bitterly contested topic: non-compete agreements written into doctors’ contracts. More
Parents Want Justice for Birth Injuries. Hospitals Want to Strip Them of the Right to Make That Decision.
Florida hospitals rely on the state’s NICA program to protect themselves from costly lawsuits. When parents resist, some of those same hospitals ask a judge to appoint an “independent guardian” to take the decision away. More
Opinion: Preserving intellectual property barriers to covid-19 vaccines is morally wrong and foolish
Why hasn't the Biden administration ended this self-defeating policy from the Trump administration? More
Frequency and Costs of Out-of-Network Bills for Outpatient Laboratory Services Among Privately Insured Patients
This cohort study uses national commercial claims data to evaluate the frequency and cost of out-of-network bills for outpatient laboratory services compared with in-network laboratory services. More
Medical device industry spends more on physician payments than pharma
A recent study finds that medical device companies spend more than pharma on payments to physicians, but spend it in different ways. More
Our Health System Is Failing Patients with Limited English
Better communication could help reduce inequities, but our medical infrastructure isn’t designed to take that into account More
Burned out by the pandemic, 3 in 10 health-care workers consider leaving the profession
After a year of trauma, doctors, nurses and other health workers are struggling to cope. More than half are burned out. More than 6 in 10 have struggled with worsening mental health. More
Survey by Ohio regulator shows stress, fatigue among pharmacists at chain stores
The findings echo NBC News reporting in March that overworked, understaffed pharmacists at chain drug stores say they are reaching a breaking point. More
FDA: Make medical apps reliable, not risky
Better regulations and reviews are needed so the FDA can ensure that consumer-facing health and medical apps are safe and effective. More
Asian Americans face barriers and bigotry in medicine
Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi writes on the struggles faced by Asian Americans working in medicine, who have endured biased comments and discrimination. More
3 Decades After Approval, Still on the Balancing Beam
The adoption of expensive medical technology by individual providers to compete for patients is one of the reasons that U.S. healthcare is the world’s most expensive on a per capita basis. Many experts see proton beam as a classic example of an American-style medical arms race. “There’s real harm in spending money on something that’s not better and is more expensive. That harm is a hospital not investing in something else that could improve its community or improve the health of more patients,” Shannon Brownlee, special adviser to the president of the Lown Institute, wrote in a recent blog post about proton beam therapy. More
A year into COVID-19, hospitals find a new normal
After battling the coronavirus for more than a year, Massachusetts hospitals have shifted from managing a raging crisis to incorporating COVID-19 into their daily work. More
UVA Health Will Wipe Out Tens of Thousands of Lawsuits Against Patients
The Virginia hospital giant had already stopped suing patients with less than $107,000 in household income. More
Medicine’s Privileged Gatekeepers: Producing Harmful Ignorance About Racism And Health
Ignorance is neither neutral nor benign, especially when it cloaks evidence of harm. And when ignorance is produced and entrenched by gatekeeper medical institutions, as has been the case with obfuscation of at least 200 years of knowledge about racism and health, the damage is compounded. More