Healthcare Economy

What the World Health Organization Still Hasn’t Done About Coronavirus

Posted: February 10, 2020 at 12:56 pm

Since the government of China first declared an emergency related to the outbreak of coronavirus on January 9, more than 900 people have died there and more than 40,000 cases ...
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China Virus: A Black Swan?

Posted: January 21, 2020 at 6:15 am

Rarely does a disease spread fast enough and is labeled dangerous enough that it quickly gets the attention of the World Health Organization. A coronavirus, which has killed several people ...
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Growing Number of Americans Still Don’t Think Vaccines Are Important

Posted: January 15, 2020 at 6:20 am

There is an ongoing battle in the United States about whether vaccines are useful as a way to protect people, and in particular children, from a disease. A minority of ...
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Is Pfizer Raising Drug Prices Too Much in 2020?

Posted: January 2, 2020 at 4:51 pm
Last updated: January 30, 2020 11:38 am

Ahead of election years, the cost and future of health care has become one of the top debates for better than two decades now. Most politicians say that they want ...
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America’s Unsafe Medical Products

Posted: December 31, 2019 at 1:22 pm

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two new safety alerts in the past two weeks. Both are recalls, including one Class I recall for a product that may ...
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A Third of Adolescents Make Risky Lifestyle Choices

Posted: December 26, 2019 at 9:46 am

More than 70% of worldwide deaths each year are the result of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. These four groups account for more ...
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America’s Unsafe Medical Products

Posted: December 20, 2019 at 4:42 pm

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued 11 new safety alerts in the past four weeks: one safety communication, two alerts and eight product recalls, including three Class I ...
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This Is How to Protect Yourself Against the Flu, According to Doctors

Posted: December 17, 2019 at 9:14 am

The influenza season officially runs from October to as late as May each year. Activity peaks around the end of the year and into January, which means that the U.S. ...
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Health Insurance Helps You Live Longer

Posted: December 10, 2019 at 12:00 pm

One of the most controversial parts of the Affordable Care Act (aka, the ACA or Obamacare) was the penalty for taxpayers who did not have health care coverage, the so-called ...
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More Americans Delay Medical Treatment Because of Cost

Posted: December 10, 2019 at 7:00 am

Some sick Americans have probably become sicker because they do not believe they can pay for appropriate treatment. And the trend has spiked since last year. A new Gallup poll ...
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Study: The Poor Get Less Sleep, Leading to Greater Risk of Heart Disease

Posted: December 2, 2019 at 1:20 pm
Last updated: January 6, 2020 12:50 am

According to a 2002 study of socioeconomic and behavioral influences on deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD), about two-thirds of such deaths among the poorest quartile of the study's population would ...
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America’s Unsafe Medical Products

Posted: November 22, 2019 at 1:50 pm
Last updated: January 6, 2020 12:59 am

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued seven new safety alerts in the past week, one safety communication and six product recalls, four of which are related to ranitidine, ...
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This Is the Unhealthiest State in America

Posted: November 19, 2019 at 8:47 am
Last updated: January 6, 2020 1:06 am

The unhealthiest state in the union, according to statistics compiled by LetsGetChecked, a home health and wellness testing site, is West Virginia. The healthiest state by the same metrics is ...
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Health Care Data Breaches May Cost More Than Money

Posted: November 15, 2019 at 1:55 pm
Last updated: January 6, 2020 1:09 am

Cybersecurity threats against health care organizations rose by 60% year over year in the first three quarters of 2019. Phishing or spear-phishing is the most commonly used attack against health ...
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The Threat From Antibiotic-Resistant Germs Gets Scarier

Posted: November 14, 2019 at 12:43 pm
Last updated: January 6, 2020 1:11 am

More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result, according to the latest report from the U.S. ...
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