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Friday, September 13, 2019
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CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

The HHS Proposed Rebate Rule And The Problem Of Scoring Proposed Regulations
By Dan Crippen

Congress should not be constrained in its oversight responsibilities by the estimate of the fiscal impact of a regulation that has not, and may never, become final. Read More >>
Narrative Matters:
IN THE JOURNAL

 NARRATIVE MATTERS: HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION

Students Shouldn’t Merely ‘Survive’ Medical School
By Eli M. Cahan

A medical student reflects on what can be done to address mental illness among medical trainees. Read More >>

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Book Review: Influenza
BOOK REVIEWS

Beating The Flu
By Jeanne Ringel

Jeanne Ringel reviews Influenza, by Jeremy Brown, director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. Read More >>
Revisiting Health Justice
By William M. Sage

William Sage reviews Essentials Of Health Justice: A Primer, by Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and Joel B. Teitelbaum, finding it, "as much a reintroduction as an introduction to its subject, refreshing readers’ recognition that America’s health reflects not only its health care system but also its sociolegal heritage." Read More >>


Welcoming Medicine To The Machine
By Dhruv Khullar

Dhruv Khullar reviews Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, by Eric Topol, "an exhaustive tour-de-force review of the past, present, and future of AI in medicine." Read More >>


A Crisis Behind The Acronyms
By Emily F. Peters

Emily Peters reviews Well: What We Need To Talk About When We Talk About Health, by Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Cancer

New research published in the Lancet found that deaths from cancer are now more common than those from cardiovascular disease in some high-income and middle-income countries. This Health Affairs Blog post from April of this year says that, as cancer cases continue to rise, "Thoughtless dissemination of new therapies creates an underclass of cancer patients who may never benefit from emerging treatments."
 
 
 
 
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