Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages by the amount of sugar they contain, rather than by the liquid volume of these drinks, as several U.S. cities currently do, could produce even greater health benefits and economic gains, a ...
Sep 5, 2019
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Government has been getting out of the hospital business in the United States, which begs a question: Are patients better off when private owners take over?
Jan 10, 2023
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A state prescription drug policy first adopted in 1939, and last ended in 2004, appears to have influenced where Purdue Pharma chose to market its opioid drug OxyContin upon launch in 1996. The consequences of that decision ...
Jan 26, 2022
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Among the international scientists working to awaken greater attention to sleep in government policymaking circles, LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania faculty member Heather Schofield, Ph.D., was featured in ...
Dec 14, 2021
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As large, for-profit dialysis chains acquired more than 1,200 smaller providers across the U.S. from 1998 to 2010, they cut skilled medical staff, increased patient volumes, altered drug regimens and adopted other practices ...
Oct 23, 2019
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African-American doctors could help reduce cardiovascular mortality among black men by 19 percent—if there was more racial diversity among physicians, according to a new study led by Stanford Health Policy's Marcella Alsan.
Jul 20, 2018
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In Miami, health care providers spent about $14,423 per Medicare patient in 2010. But in Minneapolis, average spending on Medicare enrollees that year was $7,819, just over half as much. In fact, the U.S. is filled with regional ...
Nov 3, 2016
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A study by Bocconi's Jérôme Adda shows that epidemics spread faster during economic booms because more people are traveling and finds that school shutdowns and transportation network closures are seldom efficient measures
Oct 4, 2016
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When it comes to addressing disease, many industry observers and public health advocates believe that pharmaceutical companies prefer to invest in drugs rather than vaccines, as preventives are perceived to be inherently ...
Mar 2, 2016
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Adults who are covered by Medicaid use emergency rooms 40 percent more than those in similar circumstances who do not have health insurance, according to a unique new study, co-authored by an MIT economist, that sheds empirical ...
Jan 2, 2014
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