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

3 Ways to Know If Concierge Medicine Is for You

By Sharon Epperson, CNBC

Paying for concierge health care, no longer a just a perk for the super rich, is growing in popularity. With rising out-of-pocket costs, higher deductibles in their health plans and fewer doctors in...
3 Options for Congress If Court Kills Obamacare Subsidies

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

On March 4 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear King v. Burwell, the case challenging health insurance-premium subsidies for those who buy their insurance on the 37 federal exchanges. The Reply Brief...
Hospital Equipment May Have Infected L.A. Patients with Deadly Superbug

By Steve Gorman and Deena Beasley, Reuters

A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they may have been exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial "superbug" during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and...
The Shocking Truth About Home Care Pay

By Clare L. Stacy, The Conversation

There are two million home care workers in the United States. They change diapers, administer medications, bathe and dress people and transfer the immobile from one place to another. They also take...
Robots Really Are Taking Over Hospital Work

By Robert Ferris, CNBC

Hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area are using robots called Tugs to take over many of the everyday tasks involved in tending to patients. The bots are programmed to deliver food and drugs, pick...

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