- Moving the bar(rier) forward: the benefits of de-risking cytokine release syndromeby matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on September 6, 2024 at 5:41 am
By SAMANTHA McCLENAHAN Every breakthrough in cancer treatment brings hope, but it also comes with a staggering price, raising a critical question: how do we balance groundbreaking advances with the financial realityContinue reading...
- Everything you ever want to know about birth control and much more — Sophia Yen, Pandia Healthby matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on September 5, 2024 at 8:50 pm
Dr. Sophia Yen is the Chief Medical Officer (and Founder) of Pandia Health. She is about as expert as it comes on the topics contraception, emergency contraception, medication abortion, menopause and lotsContinue reading...
- The Fantastic Fungi — Biohybrid Bots Are Mushroomingby matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on September 4, 2024 at 5:26 am
By KIM BELLARD I hadn’t expected to write about a biology-related topic anytime soon after doing so last week, but, gosh darn it, then I saw a press release from Cornell aboutContinue reading...
- Convention Invisibility Teaches A Crucial Health Policy Lessonby matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on September 3, 2024 at 7:10 am
By MICHAEL MILLENSON It’s close to an iron rule: Politics drives policy. In that context, the health policy issues that were largely invisible at the Republican and Democratic conventions taught a crucialContinue reading...
- How’s Human Evolution Going? The Harris-Walz Health Policy team wants to know.by matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on September 2, 2024 at 6:57 am
By MIKE MAGEE Clearly the Harris-Walz ticket has been doing their homework. Last week, the book above was spotted on one prominent thought-leader’s pile: “Human Evolutionary Demography.” It’s a 780 page academicContinue reading...
- “Moral Distress” Has Arrived On Health Care’s Stoopby matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on August 30, 2024 at 7:49 am
By MIKE MAGEE When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSF in 1984 published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues”, the term “Moral Distress”Continue reading...
- Fake News from MedPac on Medicare Advantage Needs to Be Corrected, Part 2by matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on August 29, 2024 at 7:45 am
By GEORGE HALVORSON Special Needs Plans Change Lives for The Lowest Income and Highest Need Patients The people who benefit the most from Medicare Advantage are clearly the very low-income and highContinue reading...
- Biology to the Rescue?by matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on August 28, 2024 at 7:12 am
By KIM BELLARD I feel much about synthetic biology as I do AI: I don’t really understand it from a technical point of view, but I sure am excited about its potential.Continue reading...
- Fake News from MedPac on Medicare Advantage Needs to Be Corrected, Pt 1by matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on August 27, 2024 at 7:28 am
By GEORGE HALVORSON MedPac has just released a report on Medicare Advantage that’s incorrect on multiple key points that need to be corrected. Medicare Advantage currently enrolls the majority of Medicare membersContinue reading...
- What will Harris mean for Health Care? – Not muchby matthew holt (The Health Care Blog) on August 23, 2024 at 9:58 am
By MATTHEW HOLT The Democratic convention wrapped with a fine speech from Kamala Harris, star power from the Obamas and Clintons, and a bunch of Republicans telling their ideological brethren that itContinue reading...