Thu, Dec 5 2019

The nation's hospital groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over a new federal rule that would require them to disclose the discounted prices they give insurers for all sorts of procedures. The hospitals, including the American Hospital…

It was below freezing in Chicago on December 12, 2017 when a 23-year-old man was fatally shot in the abdomen while standing on the sidewalk. In the days following the victim's death, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) gathered information about…

Won't you spare a thought for America's medical debt collectors? And while you're at it, will you say a prayer for the nation's health care billing managers? Let's also consider the kindly, economically productive citizens in swing states whose job…

Anybody who has had a loved one with an acute hospitalization or a chronic illness will have experienced some of the many ways in which healthcare systems fail to live up to the values and ideals of the people who have chosen healthcare as a…

Caring for someone with a serious illness stretches people spiritually and emotionally, often beyond what they might have thought possible. Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a professor of psychiatry and anthropology at Harvard University, calls this…

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One shows the prisoner nude and strapped to a crude gurney, his entire body clenched as he is waterboarded by an unseen…

LOS ANGELES — In late November, the president of Purdue University, Mitch Daniels, told students that he will soon “be recruiting one of the rarest creatures in America — a leading, I mean a really leading, African-American…

Cochrane – Oct 23

Background: full involvement of healthcare consumers in conferences is not yet the norm but is increasingly recognised as desirable. Bringing in consumers' diverse experiences and skills has many benefits both at the event and beyond it.

Author Affiliations Article Information Arc of Greater Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio JAMA. 2019;322(21):2077-2078. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.18730 In the spring of his 17th year, our child Matthew—born with Down…

By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co. 's 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already at their desks at…