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Doctor Wanted: Small Town Offers Big Perks To Attract a Physician
HAVANA, Fla. — For a rural community, this town of 1,750 people has been more fortunate than most. A family doctor has practiced here for the last 30 years. But that ended in December when Mark Newberry retired. To attract a new doctor, Havana leaders took out want ads in local newspapers, posted notices on…
An Arm and a Leg: How Do You Deal With Wild Drug Prices?
Prices for brand-name drugs in the U.S. are three times what the same drugs cost in other countries. And in a recent KFF survey, 3 in 10 adults reported not taking their medicine as prescribed at some point in the past year because of costs. “An Arm and a Leg” is collecting stories from listeners…
George Boghos, Imagine Pediatrics
George Boghos is CEO of Imagine Pediatrics, a company founded out of former CMS Innovation head Adam Boehler’s Rubicon Partners fund. Imagine is a wraparound tech-based service helping some of the sickest kids in America–think kids on feeding tubes, cancer, mental health conditions, autism and more. They provide telehealth and on the ground services (like…
Public vs. Private Sector R&D Investments
In 2011, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded discoveries contributed $69 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) and supported seven million jobs. In 2020 alone, the US biomedical and pharmaceutical private sector generated more than $1.4 trillion in economic output. From Reece et al. (Health Affairs 2025) In addition to economic output, private-sector R&D…
How long until widespread AI use comes to health systems?
The answer to this question depends, not only on how well AI tools work, but also on how AI technologies are regulated by the FDA. Scott Gottlieb has some thoughts on preferred regulatory approaches in his recent article in JAMA Health Forum. Artificial intelligence tools with advanced analytical capabilities used in clinical practice, especially tools…
Un año después del tiroteo en el desfile del Super Bowl, los sobrevivientes suman confusión al trauma
Emily Tavis estaba en una primera cita en diciembre cuando levantó la vista y se dio cuenta que estaban pasando por la esquina del centro de Kansas City, Missouri, en donde una bala le atravesó la pierna durante el desfile del Super Bowl, el año pasado. “Oh, c…”, dijo Tavis, desconcertando a su cita. Tavis…
Kaiser Permanente Back in the Hot Seat Over Mental Health Care, but It’s Not Only a KP Issue
For more than a decade, Kaiser Permanente has been under the microscope for shortcomings in mental health care, even as it is held in high esteem on the medical side. In 2013, California regulators fined the insurer $4 million for failing to reduce wait times, giving patients inaccurate information, and improperly tracking appointment data. And…
A Year After Super Bowl Parade Shooting, Trauma Freeze Gives Way to Turmoil for Survivors
KFF Health News and KCUR followed the stories of people injured during the Feb. 14, 2024, mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration. As the one-year mark since the parade shooting nears, the last installment in our series “The Injured” looks at how some survivors talk about resilience, while others are desperately…
Man and Machine: A New Age for Medicine
By MIKE MAGEE “As machines become more intelligent and can performance more sophisticated functions, a new relationship between human and automation is dawning. This relationship is moving from master-servant to teammates…” NASA Langley Research Center/2019 “DeepSeek’s Breakthrough Sparks National Pride in China,” screamed the Wall Street Journal headline last week. In the age of Trump’s…