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Addressing our maternity care crisis

What factors are behind our country’s maternal health crisis, and what can we do about it? Lessons from the 2018 Lown Conference panel on maternity care.

When doing everything means doing less

For Randi Oster, the hardest part of her father’s cancer wasn’t getting him through treatment. It was getting his doctors to listen to what he wanted.

Copay “charities” more charitable for pharma

What’s wrong with programs that help patients afford their drug copays? When they’re funded by drug companies behind the scenes, they help pharma more than patients…

The cart is driving the horse: Misguided performance measures

When it comes to measuring quality, there is a huge disconnect between payers and physicians. A recent analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine lends support to the physicians’ side of the issue.

Restoring the lost heart of medicine

Two reactions to Victor Montori’s “Why We Revolt,” from Lown VP Shannon Brownlee and Right Care Alliance member Mary Mack

Belief and evidence: How framing health news matters

Gina Kolata misrepresents the debate on tPA for strokes by painting the issue as evidence versus belief.

Building our next health system: Highlights from the Lown Conference

Highlights from this year’s annual Lown Conference, in case you missed it!

“Tweetable Moments” from #Lown2018

Were you following the 2018 Lown Conference on Twitter? I hope so, because we (and many conference participants) were tweeting some of the best quotes and moments of the conference.