Supporters of a nontraditional medical freedom movement who’ve placed their faith in Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are frustrated he hasn’t done more to push their agenda. But people close to Kennedy have been telling them to be patient. They say he is committed to the aims of the Make America…
April has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, AdventHealth and DexCare both named new CEOs, and Crozer Health and UNC Health have undergone CEO exits. There were also layoffs at organizations including Aetna, Sanford Health and Caribou Biosciences. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of…
Executives say early signs from the experiment in both the U.S. and internationally have been positive
This analysis looks at traditional Medicare spending among people who choose to disenroll from Medicare Advantage and obtain coverage under traditional Medicare during the annual Medicare open enrollment period. It compares their traditional Medicare spending (Parts A and B) in the year following disenrollment to similar people who were continuously covered by traditional Medicare, using…
This year, the Nobel Prize in medicine went to Victor Ambros, currently a Professor of Natural Science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. The two men won the award for their discovery of microRNA. One of the key questions of science is figuring…