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Overcoming Barriers to Success in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials
Even modest delays in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease could dramatically alter the current trajectory and generate large health benefits.
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How to Ensure COVID-19 Doesn’t Delay Value-Based Care
The authors suggest supporting the adoption and existence of ACOs and preventing the loss of value-based opportunities via private equity or large hospital network acquisitions.
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Yes, We Need a Vaccine to Control COVID-19. But We Need New Treatments, Too.
New treatments for Covid-19 are needed before a vaccine is ready and as the essential backstop to manage it afterward, since vaccines aren’t perfect.
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The Need To More Effectively Regulate END Markets: A Primary Public Health Lesson of the US Vaping Associated Lung Injury Outbreak
The designation of END products as “tobacco products” rather than “medical products” in August 2016 meant manufacturers did not have to meet pharmaceutical safety standards; instead, minimal product safety regulations were imposed.
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California Must Quickly Implement Policies for Tracking and Controlling Health Care Costs and Price Increases
To protect Californians from rising health care costs, the state needs to strengthen price transparency and price competition, according to Melnick.
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Ten Actions For Better Post-Pandemic Healthcare In The United States
What changes should be made now to the U.S. healthcare system to make it better when things return to a new normal, and, in the event of future pandemics.
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5 COVID-19 Myths
Joyce writes that the purveyors of these myths, including politicians who have been soft peddling the impact of the coronavirus, aren’t doing the country any favors.
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Supply Chain Failures Amid Covid‐19 Signal a New Pillar for Global Health Preparedness
We have come to realize we have to give the healthcare supply chain our full and immediate attention.
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Group Testing for Coronavirus – Called Pooled Testing – Could Be the Fastest and Cheapest Way to Increase Screening Nationwide
Screening multiple samples with a single test gets more people diagnosed using fewer supplies. Darius Lakdawalla and Erin Trish explain how it works and how it could help the U.S.
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Measures and Models for Longevity and Aging: The Burden of Mortality from COVID-19
Ho suggests that researchers need to recognize the strengths and limitations of data produced from life expectancy models in the short-term, and also appreciate the crucial role such models will play in understanding the evolution of population health in the long term.