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Some 25% of people in the United States who lack health coverage are eligible for public insurance programs but are not enrolled due to barriers that make it difficult for them to do so.
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States are pursuing health system improvements across the full spectrum of their authority, including health care purchasing, provider regulation, performance data reporting, integration of public health with health care approaches, and improving the availability and affordability of health insurance.
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A "friend-of-the-court" brief filed with a federal district court on behalf of more than 25 prominent health policy and child health experts says Department of Health and Human Services changes to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) "have no basis in evidence or the law."
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By ignoring red flags of dangers posed to patients subjected to tests of hemoglobin-based blood substitutes (HBBS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed trials to continue when stopping them eight years ago would have saved lives, a blistering report released in April asserts.
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When research calls for recruiting patients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, it's often hard to know whether patients would want to participate had they been able to make the decision themselves.
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In the wake of complaints from doctors who said a November 2007 opinion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) threatened their rights of conscience, ACOG has issued a statement insisting it "affirms the importance of conscience in shaping ethical professional conduct" and will re-examine the controversial opinion, which states that physicians who oppose sterilization and abortion are compelled to refer patients to doctors who don't object to the procedures.
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A physician working in a clinic that sees a high percentage of minority patients who live in public housing reports a difficult time obtaining reports from other providers; his peers in more affluent parts of town who see fewer minority patients report no such delays.
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Genetics research tells us that every person has as many as six or even more genetic mutations placing him or her at risk for some disease.
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"At what price is cure a goal? And what price does hope carry?" Lindsay E. Rockwell, MD, a Northampton, MA oncologist, wrote in a 2007 JAMA article.
