Good Health and Three Downsides to Commercial Health Insurer Consolidation. Elvonda

Writing in The Wall Street Journal , Scott Gottlieb argues that the Aetna-Humana and the Anthem-Cigna combinations are evidence of waning in...

Good Health and Who Benefits? - Rising Generic Drug Prices and the Case of Mylan's Conflicted Property Purchases. Elvonda

Rising Generic Drug Prices Health care costs in the US continue their seemingly inexorable rise.  Even the parts of health care that used to...

Good Health and Congrats to Theresa Gilmore! . Elvonda

Congratulations to Saint Louis University Program in Physical Therapy student Theresa Gilmore, who won an iPad Air 2 through the APTA's ...

Good Health and Bill Clinton, Paid to Speak to Biotech Conference, Extolled $1000 Pill to Prevent "Liver Rot," Despite Lack of Evidence that It Does. Elvonda

What were they thinking? Former President Clinton Talkes to Pharma and Biotech Executives In mid June, 2015, the Philadelphia Inquirer repor...

Good Health and How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You". Elvonda

As we recently discussed ( here , here , here and here ), in May, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's forem...

Good Health and Congratulations! . Elvonda

Congratulations to  Lauren (McCray) Schmaedeke  ( DPT Class of 2011 )  on passing her CWS exam!  Lauren is now a Certified Wound Specialist! 

Good Health and The Potential of Community Health Workers (CHWs). Elvonda

He was among the highest. Utilizers of healthcare services, that is.  I had the pleasure of talking to a physician who is leading a group of...