Healthcare Innovation

Once a Taboo, Exercise Becomes Post-Cancer-Surgery Rehab Tool

How Researchers Literally Rowed Past Traditional Medical Wisdom

Reform Economics

Physician Income in The New Age of Health Reform Frugality

A University of Pennsylvania Roundtable Discussion

Health Insurance

What Kind of Health Insurance Do Health Economists Buy?

Four of Them Discuss Their Choices and Reasons

Obesity Epidemic

Supermarkets and Obesity

University Researchers Explore Methods for In-Store Demarketing of Unhealthy Foods

Health Reform Law

Understanding The Individual Mandate's SCOTUS Pivot Points

Justices Ponder Adverse Selection, A Potential 'Death Spiral' and Severability

Nursing

Beyond Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

Emerging Research Consensus Eyes a More Complex Set of Variables

Health Care Reform

Penn Health Care Analysts Critique a PBS Documentary

Is 'U.S. Health Care: The Good News' Really That Good?

Emergency Medicine

The AED: Medical Marvel, Measurement Mystery

Lack of Data Gathering Impedes Broader and More Effective Use of a Life-Saving Device

Telemedicine

Lowering Premature-Infant Blindness Risk

Study Explores a Promising New Telemedicine Paradigm

Health Insurance

Making Sense of New Medical Loss Ratio Rules

What It Really Means to Insurers and Consumers

Healthcare Payment Systems

Meet The Architect of Vermont's Single-Payer Plan

Harvard's William Hsiao Zigs as Rest of Health Care Zags

Emergency Services

Tracking The 'Golden Hour' of Trauma Care

Interactive Mapping Project Provides New Insights

Health on Capitol Hill

Unspinning the 2009-10 Health Reform Public Opinion Polls

Research Team Faults Press for Inaccurate Interpretation and Reports

Health Research Funding

Arlen Specter: Are Universities Doing Enough to Support NIH Funding?

Says Cuts 'Cause Us to Lose a Generation of Scientists'

Electromagnetic Fields

Dialing Up The Cellphones-and-Cancer Controversy

Views of a Danish Researcher

Underserved Communities

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Why the Foreclosure Crisis is a Health Crisis

Health on Capitol Hill

The Growing Ruckus Over the RUC and Medicare Fees

Little-Known Rate-Setting Physicians' Panel Draws Sharp Criticism

Aggressive Hospital Care

AcademyHealth Honors Research Papers Challenging 'Aggressive' Hospital Assumptions

Contradict Previous Claims About Cost and Care Quality

Infectious Disease

Bioethicist Faults Media for Vaccine Reporting Distortions

Urges Health Community to Push Back Harder Against Anti-Vaccination Activists

Global Health

Global Health Care: Easy to Promise; Difficult to Achieve

Defining a University's Role

Emergency Medicine

Impose Further Limits on Emergency Room Access?

States' Latest Cost-Cutting Proposals Spark Debate

Medical Education

The Health-Economics Teaching Gap in Med Schools

Many Students Feel Unprepared For the Business Side of Health Reform Medicine

Fast Food and Obesity

The FDA Rolls Out Menu-Labeling Rules: But Does It Really Work?

Initial Analyses Find Little Impact on Fast Food Choices

Bioethics

NIH Ethics Chief: Conflict of Interest Rules Go Too Far

Ezekiel Emanuel Calls for New Thinking About Scholarship and Corporate Enterprise

Capitol Hill Policy Makers

Congressional Budget Office Eyes Health Research, Teaching Cuts

Targets NIH, The Largest Provider of Academic Grants

Health Reform

The New Medicaid: Expanded Eligibility, Less Care?

Harvard's Michael Chernew Fears 'Hollowed Out' State Programs