Policy & Ethics

Much of the “debate” between those believing in vaccinations and the “anti-vaxxers” revolve around facts, facts whose discovery and promotion may be more influenced by beliefs than reproducible testable theory.

Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public Health Reports offers a reason 

One of the most challenging portions of Medicare for beneficiaries to wrap their heads around is the Part D Pharmaceutical Coverage – helping to pay for medications.

You may have recently seen any of the following headlines saturating the airwaves over a scientist in China defying global ethical and procedural norms by going rogue and utilizing CRISPR technology in real world human experimentation:

Canada pays for its citizen’s health care with the notable exception of pharmaceutical costs; yes when we talk about our neighbor to the North and its healthcare financing drug costs remain with the individual.

I had the distinct pleasure of joining Miss America’s Outstanding Teen 2019 London Hibbs for a NBC Philly

 It's more than a little ironic that the state motto for New Hampshire is: "Live Free or Die"

Deductibles and co-payments are meant to make patient’s think twice about seeing physicians, making them pay a bit more to use the insurance benefits they already pay – skin in the game.

In what is simply proving to be a redundant exercise at this point, new research published in the Annals of Family Medicine supports much existing evidence that greater continui

This is antibiotic awareness week. To mark this week, there has been a great deal of talk and the publication of several important papers and workshops on antibiotics and resistance.