Health Policy
The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment benefit supports access to various services for Medicaid-covered children. But few clinicians are aware of the extent of its coverage guarantees.
The dismantling of foreign-assistance efforts has already had, and will continue to have, severe effects on vulnerable populations globally. But it also has implications for people in the United States.
Severing the long-standing ties and scientific collaborations between the United States and the WHO and slashing U.S. financial support will have catastrophic effects on both domestic and global health.
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- Research generally suggests that routine surveillance after cancer treatment finds more recurrences — leading to more surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation — without affecting the risk of death.
- Despite greater recognition of the harms of alcohol use, U.S. alcohol taxes are at all-time lows. A reexamination may help inform national debates about revenue generation, spending cuts, and public health.
- A CMS health-equity incentive for dialysis facilities reduced financial penalties for facilities that serve patients with more social risk factors but did not narrow disparities in clinical outcomes.
- The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment benefit supports access to various services for Medicaid-covered children. But few clinicians are aware of the extent of its coverage guarantees.
- The discovery of a highly efficacious option for preexposure prophylaxis that requires only twice-yearly administration has led to the question of whether a vaccine is still needed to end the HIV epidemic.
- Severing the long-standing ties and scientific collaborations between the United States and the WHO and slashing U.S. financial support will have catastrophic effects on both domestic and global health.
- In January, the FDA proposed substantially limiting the level of nicotine permitted in cigarettes. The proposal is expected to face strong industry opposition during a time of political uncertainty.
- Over the past two decades, the health care spending growth rate in the United States has declined. But reducing the emphasis on value-based care could lead to a resurgence in spending growth.
- The dismantling of foreign-assistance efforts has already had, and will continue to have, severe effects on vulnerable populations globally. But it also has implications for people in the United States.
- The U.S. shortage of primary care physicians disproportionately affects underserved communities, and the inequities are compounded by the racial and linguistic diversity gaps between patients and doctors.
- After decades of undergoing epidemiologic study, prostate cancer remains an enigmatic disease; the only established risk factors are older age, family history of prostate cancer, and African ancestry1 (apart from uncommon cases among men with variants in the genes associated with hereditary breast cancer and the Lynch syndrome)....
- When an insurer repeatedly denies coverage of cochlear implant surgery for an infant with profound sensorineural hearing loss, his physician struggles with the ramifications of breaking a sacred promise.
- The National Academy of Medicine convened a workshop of experts and published a report that reviews the progress generative AI has achieved in health care and discusses future opportunities and challenges.
- Among U.S. and European adults, greater wealth was associated with lower mortality. The difference in mortality between the wealthiest and poorest appeared to be larger in the United States than in Europe.
- Eric Rubin comments on the effects of the raft of executive orders from the current administration on scientific research and public health.
- Some pharmaceutical companies have launched platforms that direct users to websites run by telehealth companies, where clinicians are available to prescribe drugs. Such arrangements have prompted concerns.
- Even as hospitals in Gaza were turned into battlefields, some Palestinian–Israeli health care programs bridged the deep divides and continued to build trust between the populations in conflict.
- Starting in January 2025, various government health datasets were removed, restored, manipulated, or not posted as planned. The consequences of these changes could be far-reaching.
- Taking a more evidence-based approach to work design may help to bridge the growing divide between U.S. clinicians and organizational leaders, reducing “administrative harm.”
- The current U.S. political landscape poses escalating challenges for transgender health. Clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and advocates can act to counteract regressive policies.
