Healthcare Management Metablog

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is braving the oncoming blizzard in Boston for MassChallenge. In this episode, Jess asks me about some crazy things happening in health tech, from the recently announced Microsoft-Walgreens partnership to compete with Amazon, to Google buying new smartwatch technology from Fossil, to Jim Cramer’s suggestion that Apple…

The S.T.D. has gained ground among all women in the U.S., including those who are expecting.

There is strong evidence for using psychological treatment for chronic pain, but that does not mean the pain isn’t real.

Dr. Google doesn’t always know what’s best.

The physical and psychological toll of brutal commutes can be considerable.

“This is the first reported case of semen injection for use as a medical treatment,” doctors in Dublin wrote in a case report.

They are like us, but unlike us, and both fearsome and easy to bully.

Abstract The objective of this article is to discuss the impact of healthcare financing systems on the efficiency of Mexican hospitals. The Mexican healthcare system is undergoing a process of transformation to establish conditions for allocating limited health resources in order to achieve efficiency and transparency; in this line, there is a concern about the…

The Friday Breeze Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend. Happy Friday, aka Day 28 of the government shutdown. We all might be getting a little shutdown-news fatigue, but this piece about the spouses of furloughed…

A state law requiring pregnancy centers to provide women with abortion information was struck down by the Supreme Court in June, making the first action by the new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division largely symbolic.