Health Care

It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs

By Marc Joffe

With dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown

By Rob Garver

On the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with the...
Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone

By Christina Farr, CNBC

Imagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your...
How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business

By Yuval Rosenberg

Who’s to blame for the sad state of the American health care system in 2017? The short answer, as Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal details in her new book “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big...
Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda

By Barbara Moran

New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.

One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year

By Eric Pianin

Despite high premiums and diminished consumer choices that might deter consumers from enrolling in Obamacare, a new financial analysis concludes that the individual health insurance market has shaken...
New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices

By DEENA BEASLEY, Reuters

Newer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year. The drugs' success...
The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive

By Andrew L Yarrow

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order earlier this month, declaring the state’s opioid addiction crisis a state of emergency, is yet another example of the state’s leadership in addressing a...
Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire

By Eric Pianin

Ian C. Read, Pfizer’s hard-edged, Scottish-born CEO and chairman, has been unapologetic about his company’s dubious pricing practices. Last week, he gave no ground on the larger question about...
Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress

By Eric Pianin

NIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health

Is Obama Anti-business? Consider the Forest Labs Case

By Liz Peek

Reasonable people sometimes challenge the notion that President Obama is anti-business. Look at Wall Street, they say, making millions again. Nary a head has rolled! It is true that President Obama...
Health Care: ‘Free’ Check-ups Can Cost Hundreds

By Harris Meyer, Kaiser Health News

Important preventive services, including colonoscopy, are supposed to be free to insured patients. But if your doctor finds a problem, you could be hit with surprise charges running hundreds of...
Bachmann Errs on $105 Billion Hidden in Health Bill

By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal Times

CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified on Tuesday that there is no hidden $105 billion in the health care reform law, which some GOP members, including Michele Bachmann, have been asserting in...
Corporate Giants at Odds with Health Care Law

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

Corporate giants like McDonalds, Ruby Tuesday, and others worry Obama’s health care reform law will force them to take employees off mini-med programs, thus increasing turnover, and operating costs.
Chopping Block Politics Threatens Biomedical Jobs

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

A House Republicans’ budget proposal would cancel $1 billion the Obama administration wanted to add to the National Institutes of Health. The proposal is seen as another way to clean the country’s...

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