Policy & Ethics

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that he wants to spend $100 million to provide healthcare “coverage” for an estimated 600,000 uninsured New Yorkers, and that includes an estimated 300,000 undocumented individuals.

Media buzz is afoot surrounding the announcement pharmaceutical companies will be raising U.S.

Bundled care, where Medicare pays one fee for the entire “episode” of care continues to grow. Some quick caveats, bundled care includes the index hospitalization and the next 90 days of care related to that hospital admission.

Is it possible to direct scientific research? Scientists working in the private sector are directed by their corporate funders.

It is now indisputable that the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, United States, 2016 was a catastrophe by any measure.

  Bad boys, bad boys What’cha gonna do? What’cha gonna do when they come for you?  

We often use models to understand the complexities of our world and to predict what happens next. But all models are wrong because they simplify reality.

It is that gift-giving season, so perhaps it is a moment when we can reflect upon them. Gifts are often accompanied by a silent companion, debt.

By Kai Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I’ve written in the past about medicine by algorithm, but a recent article in Science Translational Medicine, as well as a deep dive into the writings of Daniel Dennett o