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Insurance industry positioned to profit from reform
In BusinessWeek, Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein write that major insurance companies have already succeeded in defining the debate over…
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Propofol abuse a concern in medical profession
Alicia Mundy of The Wall Street Journal reports that abuse of the common anesthetic propofol has become a problem the…
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Hearst project looks at toll of medical mistakes
A team of reporters from Hearst news organizations across the country contributed to “Dead by Mistake,” a broad investigation into…
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Hensley: New FDA chief looks to be tough
According to NPR Health Blog’s Scott Hensley, newly confirmed FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg sounds like she means business. Hamburg vowed…
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Making sense of Health Policy rumors
The New York Times‘ Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn do their best to help regular folks understand the increasingly…
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AHRQ names decade’s five costliest conditions
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the five costliest conditions from 1996 to 2006 were heart disease,…
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Antiaging hormone therapies unproven, carry risks
In Self magazine, Harriet Brott reports on the rise of Suzanne Somers-esque hormone therapies to combat the signs of aging.…
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Post documents self-referred, in-house scans
The Washington Post‘s Shankar Vedantam explores the well-documented phenomenon in which physicians who own scanners are far, far more likely…
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Novel H1N1 ‘remarkably similar’ to seasonal flu
Sarasota Health News editor and reporter David Gulliver talked to experts and listened to press conferences to produce a primer…
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Columnist blogs about her breast cancer
NJ.com columnist Kathleen O’Brien has been blogging her breast cancer treatment experience from the beginning. O’Brien’s posts address a mixture…