Medical economics
Surprising turn: Worker wages rising faster than the cost of job-based health insurance
Enjoy it while it lasts: Workers' pay has been growing faster than the cost of job-based health insurance.
Nov 7, 2022
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Medical economics
Family health plan premiums hold at $22,463, but employers see growth in mental health needs
A prominent national survey finds that premiums for family coverage in employer health plans held steady this year—a first for an annual report that for decades has shown family coverage in the U.S. becoming increasingly ...
Oct 28, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Veterans who worked as 9/11 first responders can't access WTC health program due to technicality
Nate Coward didn't ask questions when his company of the Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment was called on to recover and bury the Pentagon's dead after a jetliner blew a massive hole in the military headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001.
Aug 30, 2022
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Medical economics
Health insurance price data: It's out there, but it's not for the faint of heart
Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much.
Aug 1, 2022
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Medical economics
New book highlights how small biotech companies are outperforming big pharma
Biotech firms have developed nearly 40 percent more of key treatments for unmet medical needs, says a new book co-authored by Cambridge researchers.
Feb 15, 2022
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Cardiology
Without appropriate technical updates, patients are at risk of inappropriate shocks from their defibrillators
A case study of a patient who experienced inappropriate shocks from her defibrillator is presented in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, an official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society. This event likely took place because an FDA-recommended ...
Jan 20, 2022
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Private equity long-term care homes have the highest mortality rate during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that for-profit long-term care homes had worse patient outcomes than not-for-profit homes. A new study found that of those for-profit homes, long-term care homes (LTCs) owned by private equity ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Medical economics
Private equity ownership of nursing homes linked to lower quality of care, higher Medicare costs
Nursing homes acquired by private equity companies saw an increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations among long-stay residents and an uptick in Medicare costs, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine ...
Nov 20, 2021
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Medications
US pharmaceutical firm Moderna to build plant in Africa
US pharmaceutical giant Moderna announced Thursday it would build a plant in Africa, as pressure mounts on drugmakers to help ramp up COVID-19 vaccine production in areas that have received fewer doses.
Oct 7, 2021
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Vaccination
The race to vaccinate: why Africa is struggling to get COVID jabs
Vaccines were promoted as a silver bullet to end the pandemic, the path to finally beating COVID-19.
Sep 21, 2021
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