The Quinnipiac poll of swing states– Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania raises profound challenges for President Obama, underscoring why the election is effectively a tossup, notwithstanding his narrow lead in the Real Clear Politics averages. There are a number of reasons I have reached this conclusion.
The latest version of an annual survey from Medscape/Web M.D., shows dissatisfaction among U.S. doctors rising. In an online questionnaire of 24,000 doctors representing 25 specialties,only 54%, said they would choose medicine again as a career, down from 69% in 2011. Just 41% would choose the same specialty again. Only ...
Manhattan Institute Project FDA Report No. 5. “Stifling New Cures: The True Cost of Lengthy Clinical Trials,” by Avik Roy. Yesterday, the Manhattan Institute released a study I authored, entitled “Stifling New Cures: The True Cost of Lengthy Clinical Drug Trials.” (You can read the full report here.) The paper ...
Walgreens CEO Greg Wasson waits on the arrival of first lady Michelle Obama during an event at a Walgreens store that sells produce with on October 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The event was part of the first lady’s ‘Let’s Move!’ initiative, which is designed to promote healthy eating in low-income ...
Over the near term, the big event at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA) will take place on May 9, 2012, when the new president and CEO, Jeremy Levin, formerly a senior executive at Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMY), takes the helm of the world’s largest generic drug maker. With several analysts quite optimistic ...
A new study finds that one-third of patients admitted to the epilepsy unit are not actually suffering from epileptic seizures: they’re suffering from stress. As if we weren’t already stressed out enough about our stress levels, a new study reports that over a third of seizures in patients admitted to ...
New research to be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has good news for people who want to lose weight, and not such good news for those peddling “popular diets, liquid diets, nonprescription weight loss pills, and diet foods/products.” This well-done national survey of weight loss strategies showed ...
Executive recruiter DeeDee DeMan This guest post was written by Denise ( DeeDee) Deman, Chief Executive Officer, Bench International,the oldest and largest global, woman-owned retained executive recruiting, talent mapping and consulting organization serving the life sciences sector.In 2009 DeeDee was the first executive recruiter to be named one of the ...
Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative | Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. One of the great movements in reforming our health care system is rebuilding primary care delivery. Health systems with a strong primary care focus foster healthier people at lower costs. The decimation of our primary care workforce in the ...
This is the main entrance of MGH in Boston, MA. The building on the right is the White Building. The building on the left is the Lunder Building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Durably improving health is really, really hard. I’ve discussed this in the context of drug discovery, which must contend ...
Two of my recent posts* have addressed the drivers of high health care costs in the U.S. I’ve received a lot of comments, for which I’m grateful, as this is meant to be a conversation. Many of the comments have come from the medical community: doctors, heads of medical practice ...
“Food and nutrition related issues are a critical driver of health and well being,” commented Todd Park, chief technology officer of HSS by email. “The growth of the food tech community, along with the release of new food and health data sources, can give consumers new tools to help them ...
A quick round up of cool science and medicine stories from around the Web. Therapeutic cancer vaccines, which train immune cells to attack cancer cells, are one of the most enticing areas of drug development. One against prostate cancer, from Dendreon, is already approved, but attempts to develop such a ...
When businesses think their costs are high and uncompetitive, they use a practical tool called benchmarking: they compare their costs and quality to peers and determine where the difference (“gap”) arises, and why. Yet, for all the attention health care has received in recent years, there is little understanding in ...
Two of Kawakami’s co-authors are well known researchers affiliated with Harvard University and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Peter Libby and Frank Sacks. Prior to his position in Tokyo, Kawakami had been at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition, where Sacks also works. Sacks is a ...
Investors busy assessing how the state of the global economy will affect their stock portfolios should start thinking about how the presidential race will weigh in. In particular, investors may want to look at how to play the health insurance space. Health care remains a subject of divide between the ...
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife The battle over how to best contain America’s out-of-control healthcare costs has raged for decades with conservatives long pushing the concept of consumer driven healthcare as the means to bring down the high cost of care. Others, such as myself, have long argued that ...
