By Kevin Kunzmann & Jenna Payesko, MD Magazine. Alex James knew how to exhaust himself. It started on his childhood swim team when his coach, a whistle-blowing, red-faced caricature, demanded he swim to the end
By Ken Alltucker, USA Today. Americans borrowed about $88 billion to pay for health care last year, and one infour people skipped care because of costs, according to a new Gallup survey fundedby a nonpartisan… Read More
By Maggie Fox and Lauren Dunn, for NBC News. Medical mistakes — from surgical disasters to accidental drug overdoses — are the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S., behind cancer and heart disease, two… Read More
By Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News. The Justice Department on Monday accused a defunct chain of Tennessee-based pain clinics of cheating Medicare and other taxpayer-funded health insurers out of at least $25 million in needless… Read More
By Emmarie Huetteman, KHN. Ketamine is a darling of combat medics and clubgoers, an anesthetic that can quiet your pain without suppressing breathing and a hallucinogenic that can get you high with little risk of… Read More
By Richard Harris, NPR SHOTS. Cancer drugs that speed onto the market based on encouraging preliminary studies often don’t show clear benefits when more careful follow-up trials are done, according to research published Tuesday. These… Read More
By Graison Dangor, KHN. Amanda Bacon’s eating disorder was growing worse. She had lost 60% of her body weight and was consuming about 100 calories a day. But that wasn’t sick enough for her Medicaid… Read More
Hospitals Chafe Under Medicare’s New Payment Rule For Off-Campus Clinics By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, KHN News. Eric Lewis’ plans for expansion have derailed. As chief executive officer of Olympic Medical Center, he oversees efforts to provide care… Read More
BY JONATHAN BLOCK, for MED Shadow. July 10, 2018 Many FDA advisory committee members later receive kickbacks from the very pharma companies whose drug they approved. How can we stem conflicts of interest? When it
Medical school teaches us to examine, to research, to treat. We don’t learn to err and recover. By Sara Manning Peskin, M.D. For The New York Times. The needles go under the skin, into a layer… Read More