Does Your Local Hospital Make the Grade on Community Benefit? Now There’s a Way to Tell
This year, the public will have unprecedented access to critical new information about how hospitals in their communities fulfill their obligations to the people they serve.
For the past several years, there’s been a need for a well-defined standard by wh
Patients, physicians join to ask Congress to take up medication safety
Today a coalition of nine major consumer and physician groups representing millions of Americans asked Members of the House of Representatives to get behind a bill that would give the FDA broader powers and better resources to ensure the safety of the imp
As Chinese drugmakers adopt new quality standards, probe begins into safety of essential meds
A year into implementation of their new Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, Chinese authorities have begun an investigation into safety problems of “essential medicines” after a test sample of children's medication contained twice the allowable
On This Mother's Day, the Affordable Care Act Keeps Working for Our Children
Having celebrated Mother’s Day with my mom this past weekend, I know that despite leaving home over a decade ago, she’s still always looking out for me. And she is not alone. Moms (and dads, too) across the country are making sure their young adult childr
When “State Flexibility” Means “Cutting Vulnerable Americans off Health Insurance”
On Tuesday, Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Phil Gingrey unveiled new legislation, The State Flexibility Act, which they touted as providing states with “greater Medicaid flexibility in order to innovate and better target health care spending.” Let’s
Head-to-head data available for most new drugs, but is it getting used?
A new study in JAMA this week shows about 70 percent of newly-marketed drugs in the last decade came to market with comparative effectiveness data – research done against at least one existing similar therapy. (Authors Nikolas Goldberg et al. excluded orp
The Insider: "Win or go home."
Looming vote over debt ceiling is next critical hurdle for ACA & other health programs
Getting the ACA implemented is like playing in the NCAA basketball tournament—reformers face multiple hurdles, and in each case, failure to clear them could mean th
Save the Exchange!
States around the country have spent the last few months working hard to set up Health Insurance Exchanges – competitive health insurance marketplaces that help people compare and enroll in quality health insurance. However, over at the U.S. House of Repr
Meals with Mass repeal
As you may have read by now, the Massachusetts House has voted to repeal a chunk of its first-in-nation gift and meal ban, spurred on by cries from the state restaurant lobby. The law, which bans drug companies from treating Bay State physicians to some g