NC Health News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

By Grace Vitaglione This article was written with the support of a journalism fellowship from The Gerontological Society of America, The Journalists Network on Generations and The Silver Century Foundation. Marian Spicer, 72, was treated for a kidney stone at Duke Health in late October.

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The Network for Public Health Law

MAY 2, 2024

She has drafted numerous pieces of federal and state legislation that have shaped the landscape of public health. Her contributions to public health emergency preparedness and response are widely recognized, having published two books and multiple articles that have made a significant impact in the field. Allison holds a J.D.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

The proliferation of Medicare Advantage plan options has led to confusion, as vulnerable populations such as the elderly may have lower levels of health literacy and encounter greater difficulties in navigating these options.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

.” This article was produced by KFF Health News , which publishes California Healthline , an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The rise in modern health problems such as obesity can also be traced back to evolutionary principles. An article published in Frontiers in Science demonstrates how applying an evolutionary perspective to medicine can inspire new ways of preventing and treating disease. Selling the articles is not allowed.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For 10 years until last spring, she was a health reporter at the Boston Globe, where the crisis in primary care was among the topics she covered. Now working independently, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This article is not available for syndication due to republishing restrictions. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFFan independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

In a recent Kaiser Family Foundation article, the authors reviewed case numbers and death rates organized by race/ethnicity. Two years ago, University of Oregon Professor of History Jeffrey Ostler recently challenged the “virgin-soil” hypothesis in an article in The Atlantic. BY MIKE MAGEE.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The articles by Bob Herman and Casey Ross detailed the dangers of using an artificial intelligence-driven algorithm to assist doctors and insurance case managers in making health care decisions for patients.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 27, 2022

On June 16, 1966, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article titled “Ethics and Clinical Research.” I do not plan to answer this letter.”. Written by a highly respected Harvard physician, Henry K.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve written before about shady hospital billing practices , those faux community benefits , issues with price transparency , inadequate wages for healthcare workers , and inequities in health care , so I feel pretty good about their list. Chokshi, MD, MSc and Adam L.

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National Network of Public Health Institutes

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Specific areas of learning include: Social Justice & Cultural Humility, Grant Writing, Digital Storytelling, Climate Change & Emergency Preparation, and Tribal Public Health Policy to name a few. We hope you find this course both enriching and transformative as you embark on your public health journey.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I aim to boost advocacy for eliminating HBV through participating in meetings, presenting talks, and writing articles. Despite causing more deaths than the former three diseases combined, HBV receives little attention and funding from global health policy makers.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The pattern showed that the sickest Medicare Advantage patients were canceling their coverage just as their health needs and the cost of that care rose, the article showed. 11, 2024.

Health Policy 52

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That’s too bad, because I was sparked by an article on one of my favorite topics: synthetic biology. geneticist who describes his mission as “to accelerate the Century of Biology,” has a great article on his Substack: Atoms are local. Elliot Hershberg , a Ph.D.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

As I said in the latter article, . Two of the most consistent themes I’ve had over the years are that AI is going to play a big role , including acting as a “doctor” in some respects, and that state/national restrictions are not going to be effective against online options. We no longer live in that world…And just wait until we get A.I.

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Gideon

JULY 7, 2021

Alisa Aliaga-Samanez Exactly one month ago, on June 7th, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases published a research article Worldwide dynamic biogeography of zoonotic and anthroponotic Dengue. We got to know GIDEON thanks to an article published in PNAS by Kris A. How did you find out about GIDEON?

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Two articles recently provided some good insights into how to think about the future: Kevin Kelly’s How to Future and an except from Jane McGonigal’s new book Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything? I’m not so sure the future is going to be better, but I still have hopes that it can be better.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Your comments are welcome here.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Maternal Health Task Force

JANUARY 24, 2024

By: Katarzyna Borkowski , Former FDA ORISE Fellow, working with the Office of Medical Policy; current oncology research nurse at the NIH.; Maggie McCoy , Former Health Policy and Communications Intern with the Cure Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, currently works in communications and development at an education-focused nonprofit.;

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Leading this article collection is Dr. Jason M Lavender , from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). His research focuses on the confluence of body image, disordered eating, health policy, and the health of racial and sexual minorities. Dr. Alvin Tran (University of New Haven).

Mental Health and Public Health 52

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What started me down this grim train of thought, oddly enough, is a new article in The Atlantic by Jennifer A. Given a choice between short term benefits versus long term consequences, though, we’ll eat that Oreo every time, literally and metaphorically.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 17, 2022

In her article, Ms. Amouyel is the Executive Director of Solve , an MIT initiative whose mission is “to drive innovation to solve world challenges.” It sees itself as “a marketplace for social impact innovation.”. Amouyel notes that traditional definitions of innovation focus on the use of novelty to create wealth.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In fact, the article says, “Utility customers on average experienced just over eight hours of power interruptions in 2020, more than double the amount in 2013.” The Wall Street Journal reported : Large, sustained outages have occurred with increasing frequency in the U.S. In 2020, the number surpassed 180.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

I touched upon DAOs in a previous article on Web3. . Graphite Health seeks to create “a standardized, interoperable data platform that enables a secure and open marketplace to streamline the distribution of digital health solutions for both health systems and entrepreneurs.”

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The article further asserts: There is no device, no drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that are hard to navigate on foot and inequitable access to health care, particularly in minority communities. We have to disrupt that.”.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 1, 2021

RS: As Director of Aging Research at King’s (ARK), my vision has been to establish an international academic-industry hub to promote healthy longevity innovation and to better inform government health policy decisions.

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Public Healthy

APRIL 19, 2021

* This article was written on behalf of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on the launch of their Wellbeing Economy Policy Design Guide , and originally published here * — Those of us working in public health are interested in the causes of poor health and wellbeing, but also in ‘the causes of the causes’.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Millenson is president of Health Quality Advisors & a regular THCB Contributor. This article was previously published in STAT Questionable or absent information about care quality and financial incentives is no way to treat a partner.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Eventually I’ll be doing a summary article about all the back and forth about what Medicare Advantage really costs!- This is the second part of former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson’s critique of Medpac’s new analysis of Medicare Advantage.Part 1 is here. The final part will be published on THCB later this week.

Health Policy 122

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Eventually I’ll be doing a summary article about all the back and forth about what Medicare Advantage really costs!- This is the first part of former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson’s critique of Medpac’s new analysis of Medicare Advantage. The rest will be published on THCB later this week. Matthew Holt.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

Eventually I’ll be doing a summary article about all the back and forth about what Medicare Advantage really costs!- This is the third part of former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson’s critique of Medpac’s new analysis of Medicare Advantage. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Matthew Holt. Risk status and RAF.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By KIM BELLARD The article I can’t get out of my head is one by Greg Ip in The Wall Street Journal : Crises at Boeing and Intel Area National Emergency. I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

DNA is not changed by mRNA, despite a new piece of misinformation that anti-vaxxers have been adding to their narrative lately, based on an article that a group of researchers from Sweden published this past February in Current Issues in Molecular Biology.

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Sheffield DPH

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Big fan of Pekka but not of the framing in this article! Is the issue a lack of funding, corporate conduct, or a lack of political will to implement public health policies? Who is committing the ‘sin’ here? Even his conclusion repeats the ‘healthier choices’ dogma. See more on sins here. Establishing causality & harms.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It’s critical for lawmakers to advance policies that expand access to PACE services so that we can set more older Americans up for success as they age at home. It’s difficult to find unbiased health-related articles nowadays. I request that you write an article concerning RFK Jr. ’s Watch ” (Dec.

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