Healthcare is the Most Important Issue for Voters
The Midterms Highlight Reel The voters of the 2018 Midterm elections have spoken: The Democrats took the House of Representatives, while the Republicans maintained…
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Bleeding Control: New Initiatives to Prevent Pre-Hospital Hemorrhagic Deaths
Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) such as shootings, infrastructure collapses, or bombings can quickly overwhelm emergency medical resources with gravely injured victims. This has highlighted…
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Site-Neutral Payments: A Shift Toward More Efficient Healthcare
CMS is proposing a controversial change to Medicare reimbursements beginning in 2019, known as the site-neutral payment policy. Under the policy, Medicare would reimburse…
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Hurricanes and Economics: A Glimpse Into the Prescription Drug Shortage
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in the fall of 2017, one of the many ensuing scandals was its disablement of several pharmaceutical manufacturing…
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Insta-Docs: The Physicians Inspiring Our Instagram Feeds
One of the things I most love about medicine is the multitude of choices we have to create our careers. Primary care or specialty…
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Holding Pharmaceutical Companies Accountable for Antimicrobial Resistance
The World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, has become a platform where politicians, scientists, economists, and other global influencers gather to discuss…
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NIH Lifts Funding Moratorium on Gain-of-Function Research for Deadly Pathogens
In December 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it is lifting a moratorium on funding for gain-of-function research on influenza, severe…
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Telemedicine Advances Another Step With MACRA Change
Virtual medical care has been gaining traction, and now, a recent change to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) just gave it…
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Maternal and Neonatal Health Disparities in the Urban Native American Population
The Indian Health Services (IHS) was created in the 1950s with the aim of ensuring that comprehensive and culturally acceptable personal and public health…
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Eliminating Cost-Sharing Reductions
When the Affordable Care Act was created, it included a provision referred to as “cost-sharing reductions” for households that had an annual income 100-250%…
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