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Springsteen Joins Pharma, Tech Protest Over North Carolina LGBT Law
The father of a recent Duke University graduate announced Friday the cancellation of his musical performance to be held Sunday night in Greensboro. The cancellation, wrote Bruce Springsteen, is in solidarity with those unjustly affected by North Carolina’s exclusion of LGBT citizens from HB2, a recently-enacted, statewide anti-discrimination law.
Winston Churchill’s Secretary Was Archbishop’s Father
DNA tests reveal that the Archbishop of Canterbury was the son of Churchill’s secretary.
Five Grand National Investment Punts For Stock Pickers
On the eve of one of the biggest and most famous horse racing events, the Grand National at Aintree racecourse near Liverpool, England, punters will be lining up their bets for the 169th running of Europe’s most valuable jump race. But when the tape goes up will your investments prove to have been rewarding?
Why The First American Uterus Transplant Failed
Cleveland Clinic doctors have placed their uterus transplant clinical trial on hold as they try to figure out how best to prevent future patients from developing a fungal infection. The never-before-seen complication forced them to remove their first patient’s uterus less than two weeks after it was transplanted.
As Obamacare Doctor Networks Narrow, Telehealth Wants To Get In
As patients lose choices of doctors from an increasing number of narrow network health plans on public exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, a push is on to allow greater access to telehealth providers who consult with patients via smartphones, pads and laptops via video.
Sleep-Deprived Teenagers Make Worse Choices — But Schools Could Help
Only about one in six U.S. high schools and middle schools begins the day at 8:30 a.m. or later, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics to combat sleep deprivation in teens. A new study suggests that insufficient sleep increases the chance that adolescents will engage in behaviors that could lead to injuries.
Marijuana For Menstrual Cramps? New Jersey May Just Say Yes
New Jersey assemblyman Tim Eustace is introducing legislation to add menstrual cramps to the list of conditions for medical marijuana.
Does Money From Pharma Companies Make Physicians Prescribe Pricey Medications?
When your doctor tells you that you should take a new medication, you want to trust that she has your best interests in mind. You certainly don’t want to think that she is allowing her own financial interests to influence her prescribing decisions. Take for instance the decision to prescribe brand-name drugs versus generics. When you have high cholesterol and your doctor prescribed an expensive brand-name statin, is she doing that because she believes that drug is the best one to prevent you from experiencing a heart attack or stroke? Or is she doing it because she feels obligated to the company that manufactures the drug?
Why It’s Time To Put Big Pharma Conspiracy Theories To Rest
How valid are skeptics’ arguments that pharmaceutical companies aren’t trying to cure deadly diseases because doing so would impact their bottom line? This question was originally answered on Quora by Drew Smith.
Outside Experts Hired By Theranos See Promise But Still Seek Proof
Theranos, the embattled blood testing startup that hopes to replace needles with finger pricks, announced yesterday that it had recruited six experts in the science of diagnostic testing to its scientific advisory board, a group of paid consultants whose job is to help Theranos founder and chief executive Elizabeth Holmes make decisions. Unlike a board of directors, such a scientific advisory board has no formal power.
Buy Internet Finance, Healthcare Stocks In China: Forbes Asia Power Woman Polly Chu
Polly Chu, the CEO of Kingston Financial Group in Hong Kong, was an easy pick for the new edition of Forbes Asia’s “Power Women” issue unveiled this week based on the direction of her wealth alone: Way up. Her fortune on the 2016 Forbes Billionaires List published earlier this year was estimated at $3.1 billion, double last year’s figure, on a big rise in Hong Kong-listed Kingston’s stock price and profit in 2015. (Click here for the full 2016 Power Women List.)
The Biotech Hedge Fund Junior Analyst Interview Prep Quiz
Which of the following applicants is most likely to get an interview? The student with a perfect GPA and relevant internship experience The student with a near-perfect GPA and unique but non-relevant work experience The student with an average GPA, but Olympic athlete/Carnegie Hall level musician/bestselling author type extracurricular history The student whose cover letter is sprinkled with references to articles I have written The student who sends a hand-written letter in a hand-written envelope and describes why her experience and interests are well-matched to my firm
As Specialty Pharmacy Evolves, Armada Changes Name To Asembia
Privately held Armada Health Care has changed its name to Asembia to reflect its broadening business portfolio and the rapidly growing and changing specialty pharmacy business.
Pfizer, IBM Launch Ambitious ‘Internet Of Things’ For Parkinson’s Research
Pfizer is betting big on the Internet of Things, or IoT, in medicine – that is, the connectivity of physical objects like medical devices to collect and exchange data – to better understand the inform care for patients.
The Unrelenting Global March Of Diabetes [Infographic]
A major new report from the World Health Organization has revealed that global diabetes cases have almost quadrupled to 422 million in 2014 from 108 million in 1980. Diabetes now affects nearly one in 11 adults with high blood sugar levels linked to 3.8 million deaths every year. Even though the report covers both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the latter (which is connected to poor lifestyle) is primarily responsible for the majority of cases.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Addresses Opioid, Heroin Epidemic
In response to an increase in opioid-related deaths in his hometown, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently outlined his plan to combat the nation’s epidemic: improving treatment and prevention efforts, educating the medical community about more effective pain management practices, focusing on newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and preventing illicit drug trade.
More Evidence That Obesity Is A Global Catastrophe In Slow Motion
Sometimes it is harder to see things that move in slow motion. As two recent studies published in The Lancet have re-emphasized, the sheer magnitude of the global obesity epidemic dwarfs those of most other epidemics.
United States Lags Behind All Other Developed Countries When It Comes To Paid Maternity Leave
The United States is one of only two countries in the world that don’t mandate paid maternity leave, spurring individual cities and states to pass laws providing the benefit to workers in their jurisdictions. Research has linked paid leave to higher rates of breastfeeding and lower rates of infant mortality and depression in mothers.
The Social Costs To Pfizer In The Wake Of The Allergan Break-Up
But these major mergers are time consuming, draining, and a major distraction.
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Is Looking Smart For Avoiding A Tax Inversion
The U.S. Department of Treasury appears to have scuttled Pfizer’s planned merger with Allergan, a “tax inversion” deal that would have lowered Pfizer’s tax rate by letting it avoid U.S. taxes.
Walgreens Unlikely To Make Rite Aid’s PBM A Priority
Walgreens Boots Alliance will obtain a pharmacy benefit manager once its acquisition of Rite Aid closes in the second half of this year but Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina said the smaller EnvisionRx PBM would be too small to be “considered a true competitor.”
Global 2000: The Biggest Drug Companies Of 2015
Allergan Boss Brent Saunders On The Failed Pfizer Deal And Why He’s Not Like Valeant
Well, that’s quite a monkey wrench. Two days ago, Allergan was set to be purchased by larger rival Pfizer in the largest pharmaceutical deal ever and its chief executive, Brent Saunders, looked as if he would be the heir apparent at Pfizer. But new rules from the Department of Treasury removed the tax benefits Pfizer would have accrued from the deal, and so Pfizer walked away. I spoke with Saunders this morning about the deal.
Why Primary Care Is The Loneliest Specialty For Doctors, And What We Can Do About It
How do we get more doctors interested in becoming primary care physicians? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jae Won Joh.
Proteus’ Digital Medicine Offering Leads To Improved Compliance And Lower Blood Pressure
Interim findings from a new Digital Medicines study presented yesterday at the 65th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (#ACC16) demonstrated that patients benefit from feedback on medication adherence and behavior patterns, translating to improved outcomes for chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. The study included patients using Proteus Discover, a digital medicine offering from Proteus Digital Health, which utilizes a novel platform enabling quick assessment and personalized management alterations by their medical provider. The patients in the trial using Proteus Discover had uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia, which have been linked to increased healthcare costs and morbidity if left untreated.
What Can Science And Government Do To Prevent The Next Zika Virus?
What can science and the government do to minimize the risk of future viruses like Zika? This question was originally answered on Quora by Amy Pope.
Pfizer Vs. Obama: The Treasury Tries To Stop Pharma’s Tax Dodge
Most experts in corporate taxes thought there was little President Barack Obama could do to force Pfizer from moving its corporate address to Ireland in order to escape paying U.S. taxes. Yesterday evening, Jack Lew, Obama’s secretary of the treasury, called Pfizer’s bluff, instituting new rules to make the move as difficult as possible. The punch hit, and investors are reeling.
Global 2000: The Biggest Drug Companies Of 2015
Would Pfizer And AstraZeneca Both Revisit That $100 Billion Deal?
As analysts and investors interpret new proposals from the U.S. Treasury Department designed to thwart tax-inversion deals–and which risk unravelling Pfizer’s proposed $160 billion merger with Allergan–one suspects that shareholders at both Pfizer and AstraZeneca would turn the clock back to 2014 if they could. Pfizer’s $100 billion offer looks increasingly good value from both sides of the table.
If Healthcare Prices Emerge, Americans Won’t Link To Quality
When it comes to healthcare, most Americans — up to 71 percent — don’t think that prices and quality are associated, according to a new study
7 Things You Need To Learn About Autism
Being autistic reflects what being human intrinsically is, but often magnified.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Says Board Committee Finds No New Issues At Philodor
Embattled drug giant Valeant Pharmaceuticals said on Tuesday morning a board committee investigating the accounting of the company’s poorly disclosed and now shuttered mail order pharmacy channel, Philidor Rx, has found no new issues that would cause additional restatements to its reported financial results.
The Problems Behind Valeant’s Dizzying Descent
As U.S. Pharmacy Sales Slow, Walgreens Says Rite Aid Deal On Track
Walgreens Boots Alliance is improving margins through cost-cutting to combat a slow U.S. prescription market that led in part to its acquisition of Rite Aid, a deal Walgreens expects to close later this year.
The Best Health Care Jobs In 2016
Inventor Of Banned Drug Taken By Sharapova Insists It Protects Heart But Doesn’t Boost Performance
The inventor of meldonium, which Maria Sharapova says she took for years, has expressed concern that athletes might suddenly die because the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA, banned the drug as of Jan. 1. Ivars Kalvins says meldonium helps
Industry Is Vital In Turning Promising Medical Research Into Robust Solutions
Turning science into medicines is an important and worthy challenge, pursued with passion, intelligence, and integrity by many physicians and scientists. New medicines do not fall easily and inevitably out of academic research, but require deliberate, painstaking development – and unreasonably resilient drug hunters able to cope with a staggeringly high failure rate.
A Perilous Proposal To Privatize Veterans’ Care And End The VA
A panel picked largely by Congressional Republicans floated a proposal last week to eliminate all VA medical centers and outpatient clinics, and dump 9 million unprepared veterans on private sector care.
More People Should Consider Cholesterol Pills, Study Says
A new, 12,000-person study backs wider use of powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins in relatively healthy people, but does not provide similar evidence for blood pressure pills.
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Why You Need A Medical Sherpa And How To Find One
What are “medical sherpas,” and how can you get one to help guide you through the complicated, cumbersome, and often-frightening matrix of health care providers, insurance companies, and treatment plans?
Monsanto-Linked Study Finds No Monsanto-Linked Herbicide Glyphosate In Breast Milk
The consensus is that glyphosate wasn’t expected to bioaccumulate in breast milk in the first place.
Atlas-Backed Nimbus Delivers Its Apollo Mission: A $1.2B Gilead Partnership
Today Gilead announced the acquisition of Nimbus’ lead program targeting NASH and related metabolic disorders for $400M upfront and up to another $800M in development and regulatory milestones (here). This transformative deal is the culmination of over five years of work on the program, and a real testimony to the Nimbus team and its exceptional drug discovery platform. Upon closing, Gilead will be acquiring the subsidiary, Nimbus Apollo, that owns the acetyl-coA carboxylase (ACC) franchise.
Long-term Antibiotic Use For Lyme Disease Doesn’t Work, Study Finds
Chronic Lyme Disease is a myth, yet thousands of patients are treated with long-term antibiotics, lasting months or years, by “Lyme literate” doctors who insist that their patients have the disease. A new study examined the question of whether lengthy antibiotic treatments provides any benefit over a simple two-week course, and found no difference. Scientific studies going back to 2001 have found the same thing, but “Lyme literate” docs have banded together to form societies that insist they are right, and that continue to recruit patients, solicit donations, and prescribe antibiotic treatments that last for years.
One Trauma Surgeon’s Struggle For Finding Balance
Being a trauma surgeon is about remaining vulnerable but not breakable. If you stop feeling, you stop caring. If you allow your feelings to paralyze you, you are useless to all the patients that still need you. It is about compartmentalizing but not forgetting.
Some People Really Can’t Take Statins For High Cholesterol, Scientists Prove
You can’t write a story about the lifesaving benefits of the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins without getting comments like this one, from reader Bill Hayman, on my story yesterday:
I cannot take Crestor or Zetia or any form of statin drug! I can barely walk with any statin drug. My legs become painful and so weak, they feel like rubber. Several years ago, I used Lipitor and had four pancreatic attacks until I stopped the Lipitor.
Or this, from reader James Leedy:
People should be warned of side effects. Doctors should listen to patients . I have taken statins for several years. I had extreme muscle pains all that was done was adjust the dose. Now I can hardly walk. What is the purpose of having low cholesterol and be unable to walk. Please take notice of the side effects! Low cholesterol may not increase the quality of life.
Statins, in rare cases, have long been known to cause a side effect called rhabdomyolysis, in which the muscles are literally eaten away. One statin, Bayer’s Baycol, was withdrawn from the market because of this side effect, as was the top dose of Merck’s Zocor. But there are also a lot of people who complain of symptoms that aren’t rhabdomyolysis: general achiness and muscle pain that many patients describe as intolerable.
Trump Was Right On Target About Abortion — And The Utter Moral Incoherence Of Pro-Lifers
Should a woman who breaks a law involving killing be punished? In his flip-flopping, Trump fell back to the stock pro-life position of demonizing abortion providers rather than the women choosing the procedure. This ethical three-card Monte has led to closing clinics but ultimately will fail, because of a profound shift in how abortions are being carried out.
As GOP Digs In, ACA’s Medicaid Expansion Holds At 31 States
Republican-led states are balking at Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which means 19 states will likely pass up 100 percent federal funding available to expand health benefits to their state’s poor. Idaho decided against an executive order and legislative solution last week
Obese People Now Outnumber Underweight People, Study Finds
The media has been claiming for a while that Americans–as well as all global citizens–are getting heavier . While there may be anecdotal evidence to support this claim, backing it up with data is ultimately more important.
Andrew Wakefield’s Film Fizzles
Reviews of the Andrew Wakefield-directed “Vaxxed” film are dribbling in, and they’re not flattering. As the New York Times reported, “several dozen people” turned up for the premiere in Manhattan. Rebecca Robbins from Stat tweeted from the premiere:
Not a huge crowd here.
Writing at Indiewire, film critic Eric Kohn gave the film a D and called it “one-sided propaganda,” with “nothing in terms of real science.” He goes on to say:
the movie would have fit better in a sidebar showcasing tone-deaf agitprop alongside the likes of Dinesh D’Souza’s gloomy “2016: Obama’s America” and Stephen K. Bannon’s hagiographic Sarah Palin clip show “The Undefeated.” But Wakefield’s self-aggrandizing approach walks a more troubling ethical line, pushing an outrageous agenda only evident to viewers willing to look beneath its paranoid surface.
Wakefield, Kohn writes, doesn’t “just have a dog in this fight; he is the dog.”
Apple Goes Beyond Autism Awareness, Promotes Acceptance
Without a world willing to step from awareness to acceptance, having autism will be like being in hell for a lot of autistic people.
Coffee, Decaf, Espresso, Or Instant: All Brews May Lower Colon Cancer Risk
More good news for coffeephiles: Coffee of any description may lower the risk of colon cancer.
Keith Robertson Is One Of America’s Most Innovative Benefits Leaders
Healthcare’s dysfunction and out-of-control costs are well documented. I’ve been on a quest over the last several years to find the “health reform” that few talk about–the do-it-yourself variety. A set of benefits leaders have not only tamed the healthcare cost beast, they are showing that the best way to slash healthcare costs is to improve health benefits.
Can Patty Duke’s Death Help Prevent Other Sepsis Deaths?
Sepsis is an overwhelming inflammatory response to infection. Left unrecognized and untreated, it can lead to irreversible damage to organs such as the kidneys, lungs, or brain, as the body goes into shock. Bleeding often occurs as well. With severe sepsis, about 40-50% of patients will die. In the U.S., there over 1 million cases of sepsis each year, and the numbers have been increasing.
How Allergies And Aging May Be Fueling The Hot Sauce Boom
Allergies and aging both compromise the sense of smell, which is key to how we taste food. Given increases in both worldwide, could it be that the boom in hot sauce sales is partly due to more people reaching for extreme flavorings to make up for their dulled sense of taste?
Regeneron’s Eczema Data Look Great. Don’t Believe Me? Ask A Patient
Austin Jacobson, a 54-year-old trial attorney, had had rashes since he was a baby. At first they occurred in the warm weather when he played, and would go away with calamine lotion. But after he got married, and then had a child, they got worse. For twenty years, he endured itching that he says was like having poison ivy all over his body all the time.
Starting Today, Medicare’s Bundled Fees Hit Hospitals Hard
Beginning April 1, hospitals and doctors in 67 regions – one in every five U.S. metro areas – will be at risk for all Medicare spending for hip and knee replacements covered by the health insurance program for the elderly as the Obama administration rolls out a major bundled payment initiative as part of the move away from fee-for-service medicine.
The Most And Least Expensive Places To Get A Knee Replacement
How Game Day Weather Affects Concussion Rates In The NFL
NFL players have a two-fold greater risk of concussions while playing games at colder temperatures, according to a new study.
Weird Loops Of Genetic Material Help Cause Cancer
An unusual form of circular RNA can lead to leukaemia.
Naltrexone Diminishes Opioid Relapse Rates In Ex-Convicts
Determining effective treatments for those patients addicted to opioids is an ongoing process for many clinicians. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach for individuals seeking help. New research on the topic strengthens the argument for one particular alternative treatment option for opioid addiction.
Theranos Could Have Avoided Recent Problems By Engaging The Scientific Community
Theranos Inc. may have avoided its recent series of challenges by more actively and proactively engaging the scientific community. Scientists may not always be the most popular people in high school and college, but they are central to the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and could have helped steer Theranos away from potential landmines.
What’s Going Unsaid About The Healthcare Pitches From Our Presidential Candidates
Each of the candidates for president has put forward a plan about how, if elected, he or she would approach the all-important issue of healthcare in the U.S. The differing views include calls to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, modify the law with incremental, market-based reforms, or shift to a universal, government-financed, taxpayer-funded healthcare scheme.
The Most In-Demand Healthcare Career Specialties 2015
Abortion Pill Labeling Catches Up With The Scientific Evidence And Access Is Expected To Improve
Some states have restricted the use of the so-called abortion pill by requiring that health-care professionals adhere to instructions on its outdated label. But the FDA on Wednesday updated the label based on the latest research, a move that could increase access to medical abortions.
Could New Lung Cancer Meds Keep Walter White From Breaking Bad?
Today, Walter White might not be doomed by his lung cancer. The harder problem is how to pay for his care.
Portola’s Lesson For ‘Innovative’ Clinical Trial Designers
On Thursday, March 24, Portola announced the top-line results from APEX, a large phase 3 trial of the novel oral anticoagulant betrixaban. With two other Factor Xa inhibitors already on the market (and no head-to-head comparison data) the findings of APEX are of more immediate interest to clinical trial designers than patients.
New Digital Credentials Will Bring Good Fortune (Cookies)
Although new digital credentials are bound to be much less costly than current degree offerings, I wonder whether we’re all destined to gain the educational equivalent of 10 lbs. when new digital credentials inevitably wheedle their way into the Title IV ecosystem and are as readily available as free cookies, pies and cakes. Is radical accessibility the enemy of affordability?
What Politicians Aren’t Telling You About Health Savings Accounts
When it comes to the U.S. healthcare system, Republicans presidential candidates agree on two things – that Obamacare is a disaster, and that more Americans should be using health savings accounts, or HSAs. With HSAs, people put aside money, pretaxes, to pay for healthcare expenses. Specifically, they cover high out-of-pocket costs associated with consumer directed health plans – plans with low monthly premiums but high deductibles. If your insurance requires you to pay, say, a $5000 deductible, an HSA allows you to stash money away should you become sick and incur those expenses.
Biotech’s Top 5 Stock Winners, and Losers, in Q1 2016
These are grim days for biotech investors. The backlash over high drug prices, and the uncertainty over whether drugmakers will face some kind of crackdown in the U.S., has cast a cloud over those who invest in the development of new medicines.
15 Surprising Things Productive People Do Differently
This Is Why Busy People Slay Dragons While Others Just Get Burned
New research uncovers why staying busy is so valuable to performance.
Healing The Healer: Why Physicians and Medical Professionals Must Practice Self-Care
Self-care practices energize and sustain you while decreasing the emotional exhaustion, stress and potential burnout. As the saying goes, “Secure your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” Self-care is the oxygen mask for us and it is time to be mindful of this fact!
Antibiotics for Lyme Disease — How Long is Enough?
How long to treat patients with Lyme remains an issue of controversy. With traditional antibiotic therapy, lasting 2-4 weeks, 10-20% of patients will have ongoing symptoms including fatigue, joint pain, insomnia, and complaints of “brain fog.” Indefinite long-term treatment is advocated by ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society), based on a patient’s symptoms. In contrast, IDSA (Infectious Disease Society of America ) only recommends 2-4 weeks treatment. The two groups are bitter adversaries.
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Clean, Safe Places For Heroin Addicts To Shoot Up: Coming To A City Near You?
A handful of U.S. states and cities are looking at the possibility of providing heroin addicts with a safe, clean place in which to inject the drug. Other countries have found that such facilities reduce the risk of fatal overdoses and the transmission of HIV.
Medicare Advantage Makes It Easier For People To Achieve Their Best Health
Today, Medicare Advantage provides high-quality, coordinated care to millions of people with Medicare across the country. And, in partnership with leading hospitals and doctors like the Cleveland Clinic, Humana is pointing the way toward a new era of healthcare delivery.
How Did Martin Shkreli Ever Become A Pharmaceutical CEO?
With many talented biomedical, health, and public health scientists and experts looking for opportunities, how in the world did Shkreli get his opportunities? And what is to prevent other Shkrelis from becoming pharmaceutical CEOs and running pharmaceutical companies in a similar manner?
GSK Reaffirms Its Commitment To Oncology Research But The Strategy Is Unclear
And I think Witty’s position on pricing is noble. It’s just that I am not sure it is in the best interests for the future of his company.
Deadlocked Supreme Court Asks For Ideas On How To Solve Contraception Coverage
From a deadlocked Supreme Court, hints of a way to compromise on contraceptive benefits.
Autism Research Lacks Cultural And Ethnic Diversity
Autism can affect individuals from all sorts of different backgrounds, but a new study suggests those from ethnically and culturally diverse families are not well represented in autism research. Instead, behavioral interventions and treatment programs for autism are largely tailored to white, middle-class children.
New Method For Discovering Chemical Reactions Could Speed Product Development
A study shows pulling back the curtain on the way some molecules react could help scientists find valuable new compounds.
Top 5 Technologies Disrupting Healthcare by 2020
The healthcare landscape is changing exponentially and the following technologies are expected to have far reaching implications in terms of diagnostics, treatments and delivery of care in the future. Artificial Intelligence: CAGR of 42% to reach $6.6 billion in 2021
Pittsburgh 1st Graders’ $2B Advantage Over Philly Counterparts
At long last, forward-looking school and union leaders recognize they share the same goals and are proving that it’s not that difficult to slay the healthcare cost beast even in an expensive and contentious healthcare market. Philadelphia represents the model that is destroying education budgets while Pittsburgh represents the antidote to that poisonous approach. Philadelphia is like virtually every community in the country that I wrote about where teacher unions are on the wrong side of the negotiating table. In contrast, if teacher unions want to ensure their members get fairly compensated and schools aren’t further decimated by healthcare’s hyperinflation, they should follow Pittsburgh lead.
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Cancer And The Presidency: Why This CEO Says Each Candidate Needs A Plan
Itus CEO Robert Berman says the presidential candidates are making a mistake by ignoring the issue of cancer research, and he’s even launched a campaign to get them talking.
Obamacare Patients 20% More Costly Than Expected, Blue Cross Says
Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans say health costs of individuals buying coverage on exchanges is 20 percent higher than those who purchased their employer group plan coverage, according to an analysis looking at medical spending in 2014 and 2015 after the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
Is Ransomware Considered A Health Data Breach Under HIPAA?
While it’s tempting to think of ransomware as a new cyber threat, the history of digital extortion dates back to the 1980’s and one of the first examples of ransomware was the PC Cyborg Trojan. Like modern ransomware, the Cyborg Trojan (a.k.a. Aids Info Disk) first encrypted files and then demanded payment (to a PO Box in Panama) in the more friendly terminology of a software “license renewal.”
Cycle For Survival Is Both Hope-Raiser And Fund-Raiser In The Fight Against Rare Cancers
Cycle for Survival continues to grow, raising funds and hope in an accelerating fight against numerous rare cancers, which in sum account for about half of all cancers.
This Is How Uncertainty Makes You Lose Your Mind
You might be shocked to know just how much your brain craves knowing for certain.
Entrepreneurship As Translation: Why A Rising Academic Physician Left Stanford For A Startup
Translation is complex in a way that?s difficult to fully appreciate and understand unless you are in the arena, as a participant, actively engaged in wrestling a difficult problem to the ground.
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The Problems Behind Valeant’s Dizzying Descent
Allergan’s Attacks On Valeant Are Looking Eerily Prescient
In the April 4 issue of the New Yorker, James Surowiecki turns his here’s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-business-for-cocktail-parties technique on Valeant Pharmaceuticals and its billionaire CEO (OK, he used to be a billionaire) Michael Pearson.
Uncertainty About The Future Is More Stressful Than Knowing That The Future Is Going To Suck
It’s harder not to know what’s coming than to know something bad is coming, finds study.
Think 12-Step Programs Have Lost Their Value? Think Again.
Although there remains criticism about Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs, should these programs be fully dismissed? With over 2 million in membership worldwide, many think not.
How to snap up a quick $51 million: blow the whistle on your employers
John Slowik, a hitherto loyal employee of 20 years at Olympus Corporation of the Americas, revealed a culture of favors and inappropriate payments made to doctors across the US. The company was issued with a fine of $646 million after it admitted to contravening kickback laws.
Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants Near Prescribing Authority In Holdout State
Florida is on the verge of being the last of the nation’s 50 states to grant nurse practitioners prescriptive authority for controlled substances like painkillers. Physician assistants would also get the ability to write such prescriptions
How To Change Your Brain For The Better
Study: Early Links To Alzheimer’s Can Appear In Your 40s
A study has found that people in their 40s can show signs of arterial stiffening associated with the development of Alzheimer’s later in life.
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