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By Michael Young Recent Center for Medicare & Medicaid regulations incentivizing reductions in 30-day hospital readmission rates have prompted a flurry of research into how clinicians and administrators can optimize patient health following hospital discharge. Preventable hospital readmissions in the…
By Michael Young Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court in Delaware issued an injunction to bar sales of a minimally invasive Medtronic replacement heart valve that putatively infringed on competitor’s Edwards Lifesciences valve system patent.…
By Michael Young In 2012, the FDA introduced a novel pathway for expedited review of breakthrough therapies. The ‘breakthrough-drug’ designation was carved out by the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), which…
By Michael J. Young “Mortis effare ordinem et serva vivos” (State the facts of the death and serve the living) It was with this incisive charge that Dr. Mark Flomenbaum concluded his lecture on forensic pathology…
By Michael J. Young Earlier this month, landmark findings were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry illuminating the effect of disclosing genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease on older adults’ cognition and memory. In a…
By Michael Young The growing burden of managing chronic illness has long been a critical issue for policy makers and clinicians seeking to improve the quality, cost and efficiency of healthcare systems in the United…
Petrie-Flom Student Fellow Michael J. Young has co-authored a new article with Dominic Sisti (Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania) and Bill of Health contributor Art Caplan (Division of Medical Ethics,…
On December 12, a bipartisan bill entitled the Excellence in Diagnostic Imaging Utilization Act of 2013 (HR 3705) was introduced in the House of Representatives which would require clinicians to use electronic clinical decision support tools…
By Michael Young In 1972, biochemist Paul Berg and his student Janet Mertz published groundbreaking details of their first successful attempt at devising a procedure to cleave separate pieces of DNA and recombine them into…
By Michael Young It is estimated that 500,000 patients are discharged from U.S. hospitals against the recommendations of medical staff each year. This category of discharges, dubbed discharges against medical advice (DAMA), encompasses cases in which patients…
