Photo: Marc Levin, via Flickr After writing a piece on concerns about blood-testing disruptor Theranos, I had the pleasure of being on the business end of Mark Cuban’s fury. And for that, I am truly...
Category - Healthcare
Photo: frankieleon via Flickr As I’ve noted before, parents who are against vaccinating their kids not only put their own children at risk, they put other kids at risk as well. My back-of-the-envelope estimate is that this...
There’s been some grumbling about how unaffordable health insurance has become under the Affordable Care Act. Most of the complaints are about the size of the deductible — how much the insured patient has to pay...
When it comes to how people take their prescription medications, there’s an enormous amount of value left on the healthcare table. That’s because for many health conditions, any one of several drugs work well. And...
I recently had the good fortune to speak briefly with Pamela Ritchie of Bloomberg TV Canada about prescription drug pricing. My message? The US approach works when three features are in place: A robust regulatory pathway that...
There’s a lot of heat but not much light in most of the discussions around measles and whether or not to make vaccinations mandatory. It turns out that’s not the real question; all fifty states currently require the MMR...
