By Beatrice Brown Recently, news broke that there is a critical shortage of vincristine, a drug that is integral for treating pediatric cancers. According to the Children’s Oncology Group, Pfizer communicated that they were experiencing a shortage of the drug due to a manufacturing delay. Pfizer is now the sole supplier of vincristine in the…
Jack Hogan can now ride his bike home at dusk after an afternoon of playing with his friends. Is that childhood rite-of-passage worth $850,000?
By Rahul Nayak News that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow Medicare Advantage programs to enact “step therapy” programs for drugs under Part B as part of an effort to combat rising drug prices has been making rounds in the health policy world recently. Step therapy is used by all major private…
By Alex Pearlman Dr. Jonathan J. Darrow, an expert on FDA policy and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, spoke with Bill of Health editor Alex Pearlman this week about the new so-called “Right to Try” law, how it is different from existing regulations, and why expanded access programs will never work without thinking about resources…
By Thomas W. Feeley We constantly hear that the American health care system is broken and badly in need of repair. Our system provides poor value in that our per capita spending is more than any other nation in the world and yet we do not have the best health outcomes. For many years, incremental…
Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery May 10-11, 2018 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines…
Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery May 10-11, 2018 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines…
Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery May 10-11, 2018 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines…
This new post by Benjamin Sommers and John McDonough appears on the Health Affairs Blog as part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Efforts to repeal and replace the coverage expansions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as well as the…
Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law April 12 – 13, 2018 Various locations – check agenda for details Northeastern University, Boston, MA Description Anne Case and Angus Deaton shocked the world with their 2015 report that noted an increase in all-cause mortality among middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United…
