Healthcare: Interesting Stories from Forbes Magazine

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Here is the latest Health News from Forbes Magazine.

Lessons On Bernie Sanders’ Vatican Visit, From A Bioethicist Who Knows
Bernie Sanders went to Vatican City to deliver ten minutes of remarks on justice and the world economy. This strikes many pundits as, to be frank, stupid. But no one has ever invited any of them to muse for a few moments inside the gates of the Holy See.

America’s Fittest Cities

Here’s What Health Insurance Consolidation Could Mean For Your Premiums
If you like high prices, then you probably hate marketplace competition. Nothing disrupts the normal relationship between supply and demand better than a monopoly. If you doubt that, look at your local cable bill.

The Busiest IVF Clinics: Infertility By The Numbers, Part 1
Every year, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) collects IVF cycle data and publishes the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Success Rates Report. The report is available online at cdc.gov. The most recent report, covering 2014 statistics, was released this week.

Communicating With The ‘Consumer’ Versus The ‘Patient’
As millions of new users of healthcare start using services, there are opportunities to deliver the right information at the right time through personalization.

Why A Woman With Cancer Supports Hillary Clinton For President
“I’d rather have her working, as President, to make the ACA better,” she said. “I don’t think Bernie could get enough support to get a plan passed in Congress,” she said. “I don’t think he’s realistic.”

Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants Win Prescribing Authority Milestone
Florida will allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants prescribing authority for controlled substances, making it the 50th state to allow NPs to do so. Meanwhile, just one state – Kentucky – prevents PAs from prescribing controlled substances.

Express Scripts: Here Is What PillPack Did Wrong
PillPack has gone public with its dispute with pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts. Now Express Scripts is firing back.

2015 30 Under 30: Healthcare

10 Top Foods To Boost Brainpower

Is The Market’s Rally Real Or Ephemeral?
Now that the stock market has again demonstrated grit and determination to surprise with the Dow industrials racing up to its highest level since November, the usual investor question emerges: Is the rally real — or ephemeral?

Stock Performance Under Every Federal Reserve Chairman

A Prescription For Longer Life, Better Sex And Increased Happiness
The good news is that at no cost to you, you can achieve all of those benefits in return for 30 minutes of your time each day. And the ‘medication’ is exercise.

The Rise of Innovation in China’s Life Science Sector
Much has been made of China’s efforts to close the gap between western high technology sectors, and in the case of certain spaces, to actually bridge the gap and become a global leader.  In form, these efforts represent the potential – but not the inevitability – of similar outcomes in other high technology sectors.  One of the sectors that has received significant interest by the Chinese government are life sciences; however, as we found in a nearly two year survey of various Chinese officials, entrepreneurs and multinationals, the unique requirements to re-create the innovative ecosystem for the life science space remain immature in China.  While the potential for China to disrupt how and where life science innovation takes place globally, there are reasons to believe the country’s policies to develop domestic success stories may fall short of similar endeavors in other high technology segments such as clean-technology.

Meldonium Taken Before WADA Ban Could Show Up In Recent Drug Tests
Some athletes who’ve tested positive for meldonium, might actually have stopped taking it before it was banned, the World Anti-Doping Agency said this week. How many athletes might make that case remains to be seen, but Maria Sharapova doesn’t appear to be one of them.

Doctors Have Barriers To End-Of-Life Discussions Despite Medicare Coverage
Physicians are beginning to understand the Medicare benefit that allows them to bill for end-of-life care conversations, but a new poll shows there’s a need for more education because about half say they are unsure about what to say in these consultations.

Top 10 Disease-Related Causes Of Death Worldwide

When A Patient Dies Accidentally, Silence Hurts Everyone
Speaking to Washington policymakers last month, Helen Haskell, the highly respected national advocate who heads Mothers Against Medical Error, described what it’s like to lose a family member to an avoidable medical error. Haskell said the terrible grief is compounded tenfold when family members can’t get answers from hospital officials covering up mistakes they made. She described how excruciating it is for a beloved life to be dismissed in a cold, bewildering healthcare bureaucracy. “Two of these survivors recently committed suicide over this issue,” Haskell recounted. “They said they felt thrown away, treated like their lives and their loved ones’ lives were worth nothing.”

Some Opioid Users On Methadone Have High Risk Of Relapse
New research suggests that certain patients with opioid use disorder being treated with methadone are at a high risk of relapse.

Spending On Drugs Will Drop As Top Sellers Go Generic
But let?s not lose sight of the fact that these same drugs that save lives or alleviate the suffering of millions, eventually will become a lot cheaper.

7 Habits That May Actually Change The Brain, According To Science
The brain is your most valuable organ. Here’s what we know about how to treat it well.

Zika Causes Microcephaly And Other Birth Defects, CDC Concludes
After an extensive scientific review of recently published medical studies, the CDC announced yesterday that there is definitive evidence that the Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other severe brain defects.

Zika Highlights Weaknesses In Public Health
News about Zika keeps getting worse. First is growing evidence that Zika causes of the serious birth defect, microcephaly (abnormally small brain and skull) and severe mental retardation. The CDC just announced their analysis that concludes Zika is the cause of many recent microcephaly cases, with CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden declaring, “There is no longer any doubt that Zika causes microcephaly.” He added, “Never before in history has there been a situation where a bite from a mosquito can result in a devastating malformation.” Studies supporting this conclusion were just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pharmacy Startup PillPack To Be Terminated By Express Scripts
Express Scripts is dropping pharmacy startup PillPack from its network. Now PillPack is fighting back.

Zika Causes Birth Defects, But How Fast Can A Vaccine Be Developed?
Many hurdles lay ahead for development of a Zika virus vaccine.

Double-Digit Growth In Drug Spending Slows As Insurers Fight Back
The nation’s prescription drug spend jumped yet again in 2015, but there are signs that payer protests over sky-high prices on specialty drugs is starting to hamper Big Pharma’s pricing power.

The Animal Fat Vs. Vegetable Oil Debate Continues
A new study unearths old data on the animal vs. corn oil dilemma. But whether it adds anything new to the discussions isn’t clear.

6 Ways Providers Can Bring Value To Patients
Over the past several years, there has been an increasing focus on improving the “value” of care delivered by the healthcare system. Among the strongest advocates for “value” have been my mentor Michael Porter and his collaborator Elizabeth Teisberg, who in their 2006 book Redefining Health Care powerfully defined value in healthcare as the ratio of clinical outcomes to the costs incurred to achieve them. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell last year announced that a majority of healthcare payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs will transition to value-based payments by 2018. And numerous health systems have reorganized with a goal of improving the value of care delivered.

A Common Painkiller May Inhibit Your Ability To Detect Mistakes
A drug commonly used to treat pain could also be impeding error-detection in the brain, new research suggests.

Meet The Billionaire With The Drug To Fix Baldness
Osman Kibar is worth $4 Billion. That’s because his startup is using groundbreaking technology to cure baldness, arthritis and wrinkles.

Cure Baldness. Heal Arthritis. Erase Wrinkles. An Unknown Billionaire’s Quest Reverse Aging
A brilliant turkish-american billionaire thinks he can heal arthritis, cure baldness and erase wrinkles. And that’s just the start, as he aims to reverse the aging process itself.

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