How We’re Curing The Incurable

This post first appeared on the Morning Consult. In 1989, while the world watched the Berlin Wall fall and history opened a new chapter, researchers in government and private labs half a world away...
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Combatting a Lack of Transparency in Health Insurance Exchanges

In our last whiteboard video, we emphasized the importance of being smart consumers when shopping for health insurance plans. By asking the right questions and comparing different plans you are more...
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TEDMED Great Challenges Google Hangout on Balancing the Costs of Health Care

Today, I had the chance take part in a Google+ Hangout organized by TEDMED. A part of TEDMED’s Great Challenges series, the Hangout, titled, “A Delicate Balance: How Can We Rightsize Treatment...
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Patient Safety Demands that Drug Compounders Comply With Law

“When compounded products are not made according to strict quality standards appropriate for their scale of production, the results can be deadly.” Six public health organizations wrote this to FDA...
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Debunking Common Myths About Clinical Trials

MYTH: Clinical trial volunteers are merely human guinea pigs. FACT: You may be hesitant to participate in a clinical trial out of concern that you will be treated as a set of symptoms upon which to...
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Biopharmaceutical companies reaffirm commitment to patients in updated Principles on Conduct of Clinical Trials and Communication of Clinical Trial Results

Researchers in biopharmaceutical companies strive to discover and develop new medicines and vaccines that will help people to live longer, healthier lives. They go to work every day knowing that...
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Prescription Drug Lifecycle Helps Health Care Spending Hit Record Low

Following several years of modest growth, a new study published in Health Affairs reports a record low health care spending increase of 3.6 percent in 2013. The last time the annual growth rate was...
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World AIDS Day 2014: Transforming the Trajectory of Disease

Today is World AIDS Day, and we’re examining the tremendous progress we’ve made turning what was once considered a virtual death sentence into a chronic condition. The fact that the death rate for...
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