The American Journal of Bioethics has published what has to be one of the longest corrections ever for an academic journal. And yet it manages to beg more questions than it answers.
Healthcare Systems & Policy
More than one in four West Virginia fifth-graders are now obese. One in four already has high blood pressure. What's their future going to be?
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner has designed a way to care for Camden, N.J.'s, sickest that gives hope as our nation struggles with rising health care costs. Find out why Brenner calls his approach a “game changer” that can shake up the hospital-based culture of medicine.
The nurse wheeled my young friend Alexander’s gurney into the emergency room. As she walked away from him, she shot out a parting remark: “This is how you lose a leg – or your life.”
A sampling of reaction from politicians, patients, advocates and pundits on today's historic Supreme Court decision on health reform.
Tomorrow, doctors will still be taking care of their patients, regardless of the Supreme Court's decision on health reform.
The court ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional, defining it as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the more liberal justices in the majority. However, the court limited the federal government's power to cut off Medicaid money going to states....
With the Supreme Court poised to issue its ruling on “Obamacare” any day now, many of us find ourselves wondering whether our nation’s highest court will ...make it MORE difficult for this country to achieve what virtually every other industrialized nation already guarantees as a fundamental human r
What Americans should know about the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on health reform.
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