Jun 29 Watch Hospitals turning to data brokers for patient information By PBS News Hour A new report this week describes how hospitals are buying information from data brokers to determine how likely you are to get sick and what it may cost to treat you. For more on this Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg News… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch Are generic drugs being delayed to market? By PBS News Hour Are generic drugs being delayed to market by so-called "pay for delay" deals between drug companies? The deals happen after generic drug companies challenge the patents on brand-name drugs. The settlements include a date that the generic drug can enter… Continue watching
Jun 28 Courts weigh in on generic drug delays By Megan Thompson In legal battles over drug patents, a brand-drug company will sometimes make a payment to a generic manufacturer that opponents allege is meant to delay the generic to market. Continue reading
Jun 26 Drink up -- New York City's soda ban is dead By Lorna Baldwin New York's highest court ruled Thursday not to reinstate a ban on big sodas. Continue reading
Jun 21 Watch 'Right to try' law gives terminal patients access to drugs not approved by FDA By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 02 Doctors turn to artificial intelligence when they're stumped By Daniela Hernandez, Kaiser Health News Tech titans like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple already have made huge investments in artificial intelligence to deliver tailored search results and build virtual personal assistants. That approach is starting to trickle down into health care too, thanks in part… Continue reading
May 29 Better medical information needed on youth sports concussions, Obama says By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is a lover of games played on hard courts, baseball diamonds and in 10-yard increments. His two daughters are active in sports and, like many parents with children on athletic teams, he worries about their… Continue reading
May 27 First lady responds to critics of school nutrition guidelines By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press First lady Michelle Obama is answering Republicans in Congress who want to roll back healthier school meal standards, holding an event at the White House to highlight the success of the health guidelines. The Tuesday event is an unusual move… Continue reading
May 26 Suspended animation human trials to begin for wounded patients By Justin Scuiletti The process, which is being called “emergency preservation and resuscitation,” replaces all of a patient’s blood with a cold saline solution in order to induce hypothermia and stop almost all cellular activity in the body. In the cooler body… Continue reading
May 20 Americans favor tax breaks to encourage savings for long term care By Patti Parson For the second year in a row, the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs conducted a survey of attitudes towards long-term care among those over age 40. The survey, funded by a grant from The SCAN Foundation which is also… Continue reading