On Sunday the Conservative party announced their new manifesto, full of their promises to the electorate. We read all of this 64-page document and compressed it into less than 10 minutes to make understanding their policies easier!

We're not using the HPV vaccine enough, and we may be using NICUs too much. This is Healthcare Triage News.

Neoliberalism, warns Professor Wendy Brown, has created a form of reasoning in which human beings are reduced to their economic value and activity, and in which all fields of human activity are treated as markets and institutions,...

You might think that once drugs, devices and medical procedures are shown to be effective, they quickly become available. You might also think that those shown not to work as well as alternatives are immediately discarded. Reasonable...

We've done the US, Canada, and France. None of them are really socialized healthcare systems. To get at that, we need to go look at a system like that of the UK. More specifically, we're going to talk about England's National Health...

Obamacare's marketplaces were supposed to give consumers choices of health plans from insurers that compete to keep premiums down. But fewer insurers are participating, and premiums are increasing sharply.

In a recent Health Affairs article, the Commonwealth Foundation conducted their periodic survey of eleven countries to see how access issues might have improved or worsened. We've covered these data before. Let's update. This is...

There have been a lot of innovations in Medicare over the last decade or so, with the intent of improving the program's value. There have been some successes, but there is still a lot to be done.

Britain's National Health Service is facing serious challenges, 70 years after its creation. Lord Ara Darzi, a surgeon and former health minister, gives us his prescription for nursing the NHS back to health

Last week we discussed the United States health care system. This week we discuss Canada's. We also take some time to bust some myths about their single payer health care system. Fight about it in the comments below.

Meet Frances Oldham Kelsey - a true American hero! Frances was a pharmacologist working for the FDA who stood up to the big drug companies and ultimately saved thousands of American lives in the process.

This video provides an in-depth explanation of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The speaker gives examples of how PPPs are used in practice, such as building new hospitals and partial privatization of public sector assets. The...

Switzerland! It's a gorgeous alpine nation of 8 million people. It's a parliamentary republic made up of 26 cantons. I've never been, but I hear great things about it. The country should free to fly us over so we can learn even more. But...

Last week we discussed the United States health care system. This week we discuss Canada's. We also take some time to bust some myths about their single payer health care system. Fight about it in the comments below.

This year's influenza is really bad. Hospitalizations are up, and health departments in 49 states report widespread flu. Apparently, if you don't want the flu, go to Hawaii. Just kidding. You can still get a flu shot, and you don't have...

"Pay for performance" is one of those slogans that seem to upset no one. But as with so many things in health care, it's much more complicated than it appears at first glance. Watch and learn!

At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, Genetech CEO Alexander Hardy spoke with Health & Science Deputy Bureau Chief Jonathan D. Rockoff about big pharma, biotech and where the next big cancer breakthrough may come from.

America's covid-19 death toll is higher than anywhere else in the world—and is continuing to mount. What’s behind the country’s coronavirus pandemic failings?

We spend a lot of money on healthcare. How much if goes toward good studies of the health policies we implement. Not much. An almost natural experiment in Oregon has been revealing.

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This clip is from the chapter "CISM Domain 1: Information Security Governance" of the series "CISM Certification Domain 1:...

When scientists at the top secret 'Manhattan project' wanted to discover how radioactive bomb materials could affect the human body – they secretly injected terminally ill patients with uranium to find out.

East Greenwich High School students reflect on their experience with the Choose2Matter program.

This Week in Global Health covers everything you wanted to know about MERS-CoV and the MERS outbreak. We do the digging and answer your questions; What is MERS? Where is the MERS outbreak happening? How is the MERS-CoV transmitted and...

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