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Hunt Lecture: From the original post: During his week-long visit to Seton Hall Law School, Paul Hunt, Professor of Law, University of Essex School of Law, provided several lectures to students and faculty ...Read More
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- Care Management for Medicaid Enrollees Through Community Health Teams
  To provide more effective and efficient care for beneficiaries with complex health needs, Medicaid programs in some states have turned to local community health teams to augment the capacity of physician practices. A new report examines multidisciplinary community health team programs in eight states. […]
- Putting Aside Preconceptions—Time for Dialogue Among Primary Care Clinicians
  An editorial by The Commonwealth Fund's David Blumenthal and Melinda Abrams explores one approach to addressing the primary care workforce shortage: using nurse practitioners to provide a wide range of primary care services. […]
- Improving the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase
  Since January 2013, Medicaid agencies and health plans have been required to pay for primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries at the generally higher rates paid to providers by Medicare. The Center for Health Care Strategies' David Bricklin-Small and Tricia McGinnis say that to ensure continued access to primary care, the increase should be maintained be […]
- The Value of Strong Primary Care
  The Fund's Jordan Kiszla and Rachel Nuzum discuss a recent policy briefing on the potential of patient-centered medical homes to transform primary care. […]
- Making Sense of the Change in How Medicare Advantage Plans Are Paid
  Under the Affordable Care Act, overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans are gradually being pared back. But will private plans be able to cope with the reduced payments? Using newly available government data, this brief examines average costs among Medicare Advantage plans and variation in costs among plan types. […]
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- Update on Coons v. Geithner
  This is the case in the District Court for the District of Arizona, brought by some members of the House of representatives, among others. The plaintiffs made two principal claims in their complaint: (1) that the individual mandate exceeds Congress's enumerated powers, and (2) the Independent Payment Advisory Board (established by the ACA to review Medi […]
- Update on Goudy-Bachman v. HHS
  This is the case in which Judge Conner (M.D. Pennsylvania) declared the minimum coverage provision unconstitutional, and which the United States then appealed to the Third Circuit. The case has been on hold pending the Supreme Court's decisions. Now, the case is clearly done. The only issue raised was whether the mandate exceeded Congress's enumera […]
- The Chief arrives in Malta
  A nice place to avoid any discussion of switches, leaks, fits of pique, or the taxing power. […]
- Update on Physician Hospitals of America v. Sebelius
  This is the case that was argued back on April 3 in the Fifth Circuit, in which there was a brief kerfuffle about whether the administration still respected the federal judiciary's authority to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. The case actually has nothing to do with the individual mandate. Rather, the plaintiffs challenge ACA §6001, which ext […]
- Update on U.S. Citizens Association v. Sebelius
  This is the case currently pending in the Sixth Circuit which, because it challenges the constitutionality of the minimum coverage provision, was also put on hold pending the Supreme Court's decision. Unlike many other cases, however, this case was not mooted, as the plaintiffs are now challenging the mandate on different grounds. Specifically, the plai […]
- Nothing yet in Kinder v. Geithner
  I just checked the Eighth Circuit's electronic docket through PACER, and there has been no movement on Kinder v. Geithner. This was the case orally argued October 20, and which has been stayed pending the Supreme Court's decision. The district court dismissed the case for lack of standing, but the parties also argued the merits in the court of appe […]
- Cert denied in the four held cases
  As loyal reader Mark Regan has pointed out to me, the Supreme Court quietly on Friday issued an order list denying certiorari in all the ACA cases that were being held for NFIB v. Sebelius, HHS v. Florida, and Florida v. HHS. To refresh your memory, those were:* Thomas More Law Center v. Obama* Virginia v. Sebelius* Liberty University v. Geithner, and* Seven […]
- A second "switch in time"
  By another Justice named Roberts.Jan Crawford, appearing this morning on CBS News's Face the Nation, is reporting this morning what most all of us have suspected. Specifically, two unnamed sources have told her that the Chief Justice switched his vote about a month ago. The basic outlines of this scenario make sense, as they explain a number of the anom […]
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- Well: What’s in Your Green Tea?
  A new report from ConsumerLab.com shows that some bottled varieties of green tea appear to be little more than sugar water, while some green tea leaves are contaminated with lead […]
- Arizona’s Ban on Abortions Struck Down in Federal Court
  The law made the procedure illegal if performed about 18 weeks after fertilization, earlier than the time recognized by Supreme Court precedents. […]
- National Briefing | Washington: Senate Committee Approves Bill on Compounding
  A Senate committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over compounding pharmacies. […]
- Oregon: Fluoride Measure in Portland Is Defeated
  Voters in Portland, Ore., defeated a measure on Tuesday to add fluoride to the water supply by a 60-to-40 percent margin. […]
- Well: Aging: Fewer Elderly Deaths in Flu Pandemics
  Age has its privileges, and a new study suggests that one of them may be immunity to some flu pandemics. […]
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- UPDATED: FDA panel backs low-dose rollout of Merck's sleep drug suvorexant
  A panel of experts assembled by the FDA has given Merck a boost in its quest for an approval of the sleep drug suvorexant. […]
- Gilead steals a march for hepatitis C drug application
  The European Medicines Agency will provide an accelerated review of the treatment combined with ribavirin, which is shaping up as the first all-oral hepatitis C regimen up for a regulatory decision. […]
- Swiss billionaires create major biotech campus at former Serono site
  Two Swiss billionaires--Ernesto Bertarelli and Hansjorg Wyss--have joined forces to buy out the former Merck Serono facility in Geneva, with ambitious plans to create a major collaboration on discovery work and translational research while offering a home for a new generation of biotech companies in the region. […]
- VC: Kineta, Oligomerix gain fresh venture backing for R&D programs
  A group of ex-oil traders who created a new private equity group dubbed Hydra has decided to back the two lead programs at Seattle-based Kineta. There's no word on just how much they're investing in the biotech, but the "major investment" will be used to develop ShK-186, a Phase I immune-sparing autoimmune disease drug, and rOAS, a pan-vi […]
- GlaxoSmithKline wins up to $200M federal contract to develop new antibiotics
  In the first collaboration of its kind, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has brought on GlaxoSmithKline to help the federal agency develop new antibiotics to combat bioterrorism and growing resistance to the drugs. […]
- Is Novartis seriously scouting for new Alzheimer's drug candidates?
  According to an analysis by Bloomberg, Novartis is interested in finding a competitive Alzheimer's drug program. But it's hard to determine from the story if the pharma giant--always reluctant to detail partnering efforts or in-house strategies--has anything specific in mind. […]
- Analysts tap the next big thing in biopharma R&D
  Just a year or two ago, analysts and investors were in a frenzy over the frantic race to develop a new set of hepatitis C drugs that promised to change the standard of care. Now, as the leaders in that race approach the first round of likely marketing approvals, a new R&D competition has grabbed analysts' feverish attention as the next big thing in […]
- Grifols orchestrates $116M deal to grab PhIII antibiotic
  Grifols has agreed to foot up to $65 million of the Phase III bill, with a promise of $25 million in development milestones for a successful outcome. And Grifols is buying up a 35% stake in Aradigm at a cost of $26 million. […]
- Novo nabs anti-infectives outfit in $700M buyout
  Turns out there was some truth behind the rumors that 3i was shopping the anti-infectives company Xellia. […]
- Analysts question Teva's blockbuster expectations on drug makeovers
  Teva's new CEO, Jeremy Levin, has been touting the company's plan to come up with a pipeline of late-stage drugs that take well-known medicines and give them a makeover for new uses. […]
Boston Globe Health Blog
- Prostate cancer screening: too early to say goodbye
  First they try to take away our mammograms, and now this? Last week, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) followed up their October 2011 draft guidelines to recommend, definitively, that doctors not offer routine Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) screening for... […]
- MIT professor wins prestigious chemistry prize
  By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer at MIT best known for his contributions in the fields of tissue engineering and drug delivery, has been named the winner of the 2012 Priestley Medal, a prestigious prize... […]
- Daily check up: New York Times points to Mass. public opinion on health care mandate as a model
  In an editorial today, the Times says support for the national mandate could follow the recent trend in Mass. and grow […]
- Brigham and Women's performs face transplant on woman mauled by chimp
  Jonathan Wiggs / Globe Staff Photo Steve Nash, brother of Charla Nash, who received a full face transplant at Brigham and Women's Hospital late last month, appeared at a press conference today with his wife, Kate. Charla Nash did not... […]
- Poll: Public supports mandatory physical education
  In a survey of 501 Mass. residents, 87 percent said the state should require 30 min. of physical activity each school day […]
LA Times Health Blog
- FDA approves a drug to reverse anticoagulation
  Ever since the drug warfarin was discovered to be a highly effective anti-clotting agent as well as a good rat poison in the early 1950s, it has been the frontline weapon in preventing stroke among those with atrial fibrillation. But its growing use has always raised the specter of dangerously hard-to-stanch bleeding if someone taking it is wounded or bleeds […]
- Alice Waters, school officials talk teaching with food
  Fast food begets a fast-food culture that has seeped into pretty much everything going on in the world today, the chef Alice Waters told a crowd gathered at UCLA for a presentation about edible education. […]
- Government shuts down HIV/AIDS vaccine trial
  In another major setback for efforts to develop a vaccine to boost immunity to the human immunodeficiency virus, known as HIV, a key clinical trial was ordered shut down this week after an independent panel of safety experts found that participants getting the vaccine appeared to be slightly more likely to contract the virus and no better at suppressing its […]
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- A Life-Course Approach to Vaccination Can Drive Healthy Aging
  As life spans increase and birth-rates decrease, the world’s population is aging. From 2000 to 2025, the over-60 demographic segment will double from 600 million to almost 1.2 billion. By 2050, it will nearly double again, surpassing two billion and accounting for an incredible 22% of the total global population. A society this “old” has never before existed […]
- Seven Policy Recommendations To Improve Quality Measurement
  Performance measurement -- if done right -- can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care institutions for doing the right thing for their patients. Yet, policy makers, private and public, have a duty to the public, patients, and providers to get it right -- […]
- Where Was The Leadership? The Questions Raised By Jonathan Welch’s Narrative Matters Essay
  Dr. Jonathan Welch's Narrative Matters essay in the December, 2012 edition of Health Affairs, regarding the cascade of errors and omissions he witnessed in connection with the care provided to his mother, should raise profound questions about how the hospital allowed those failures of care to happen. Dr. Welch, an emergency medicine physician, watched h […]
- Implementing Health Reform: Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan & Medicaid/CHIP Renewal
  Editor's note: Health Affairs Blog has been proud to host Tim Jost's series of posts, "Implementing Health Reform, tracking the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In recent days the implementing agencies -- Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury -- have been issuing regulations, proposed regulations, frequently asked questions, […]
- Narrative Matters: Navigating The Coverage Maze In Pennsylvania
  In the May Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, two graduate students describe their fight with the bureaucracy to gain coverage for their son under the Children's Health Insurance Program, and they express the hope that provisions of the Affordable Care Act will cut the red tape. The article, "To Cover Their Child, One Couple Navigates A Health […]
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