Homeless people are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19, but its impact on them is largely a mystery as data collection is sparse and, minus any coordinated federal response, local governments must figure out how to protect their homeless during the pandemic. More
You’d need a pretty big, stiff broom to sweep away all of the hype dished out by the Trump Administration as it announced an Emergency Use Authorization for convalescent plasma – the liquid component of blood that may be tapped for disease-fighting antibodies from people who’ve been infected with COVID-19. More
In this latest edition of “Lown Hospitals Q&A,” Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini discuss why certain hospitals on the top of the US News ranking don't come out on top in the Lown Index. More
What has been the impact of hospital consolidation, and what can we do to reverse the harm from health care monopolies? At the second in an Open Markets Institute webinar series, health care experts outlined some of the key steps forward. More
Infection control specialists are being deployed to battle COVID-19, but there are concerns the workforce is being stretched thin and hospital-acquired infections may be rising as a result. More
When nonprofit medicine and nitty-gritty capitalism mix, the potential for financial conflicts abound. More
The upheaval in the provision of routine health care caused by the Covid-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to reduce low-value care significantly with concurrent efforts from providers and health systems, payers, policymakers, employers, and patients. More
As the coronavirus crisis deepened in April, Georgia officials circulated documents showing that to get through the next month, the state would need millions more masks, gowns and other supplies than it had on hand. More
The policy change has been a major point of tension for weeks between HHS and FDA. More
Taking lots of medications is, for many of us, an inevitable part of getting older. While some of these drugs help keep us healthy, there are serious risks to taking too many. For my husband, the drugs he was prescribed to alleviate his symptoms became a cascade of medications that eventually destroyed his health. More
Soon after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was recognized in the United States in early 2020, troubling patterns emerged, revealing that US Black and Hispanic residents were experiencing several-fold greater incidence of infection and increased rates of hospitalization. More
At the 2020 Academy Health Research Meeting, presenters dug deep into the subject on everyone's minds: How do we tackle structural racism within health services research? More
Hala Borno, who has been studying the gap between real-world demographics and clinical trial enrollment, discusses how Covid-19 studies are falling short. More
In this latest edition of “Lown Hospitals Q&A,” Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini discuss trends in hospital executive pay and explain why the Lown Institute included pay equity as a metric on the Lown Institute Hospitals Index More
After months of fighting the pandemic, health care workers are breaking under heavy emotional and physical strain. More
An administration shift is putting a burden on hospitals and undercutting the integrity of data on the pandemic, current and former members of a federal advisory panel said. More
Black children are 3.4 times more likely to die within a month after surgery than their white peers, a study shows. More
Advocates are calling for universal policies on maternity care to reduce disparities in maternal mortality between Black and white women. More
Like other businesses around the country, many doctors were forced to close their offices — or at least see only emergency cases — when the pandemic struck. That led to sharp revenue losses, layoffs and pay cuts. More
Health care facilities are urging patients back for routine screening tests. Critics say Covid-19 begs a recalibration. More