End-stage renal disease makes up 7.2 percent of Medicare spending, even though those patients represent less than 1 percent of the Medicare population, according to …
Author: Beth Duff-Brown
Research shows that handgun sales spiked in California after two mass shootings
A new study has yielded what might come as a surprise to some: There was a spike in the number of Californians who bought handguns for …
Proposed NIH cuts would affect Stanford Health Policy
The administration's budget proposes cutting funding to the National Institutes of Health by more than $7 billion in the next two years. That has many …
Medical malpractice reform likely back on table
The GOP’s proposed American Health Care Act may now be dead, but health policy experts say there are plenty of other health-care reforms the Trump …
Reflecting on the importance of Planned Parenthood
As Congress considers the GOP’s American Health Care Act, there are likely many people out there who don’t know that the proposed legislation calls for the defunding …
Taking painkillers with sleeping pills is an increasingly risky business
For those of us following the confounding opioid epidemic, there’s more bad news. Stanford researchers have determined that taking strong prescription painkillers together with sleeping …
Stanford health policy researchers examine new health care bill
As the debate around health care intensifies following the release earlier this week of the House Republican's American Health Care Act, several Stanford-affiliated researchers agreed to …
The current state of women’s health in the United States? Uncertain
I had no idea that before the Affordable Care Act was enacted into law some insurance companies considered pregnancy a pre-existing condition, effectively denying women …
Doctor at Women’s March: “I marched to make sure my patients’ voices would be heard”
Marcella Alsan, MD, PhD, and Burak Alsan, MD, are a power couple here at Stanford Medicine. Marcella is an assistant professor of medicine, a tropical disease …
Stanford researchers exploring consequences of Tuskegee syphilis study
I first learned about the secret U.S. government syphilis study conducted on poor black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, during a college class on ethics. The …
Millions of children live in high-mortality hotspots across sub-Saharan Africa
The good news is that deaths of children under 5 have fallen from nearly 12 million a year in 1990 to fewer than six million …
At Stanford symposium, a look at the next four years of health policy
During talks, health policy expert Bob Kocher, MD, likes to show a slide of the signature page of the Affordable Care Act, which he helped …
Stanford Health Policy symposium to address future of health care in U.S. and abroad
Would the Affordable Care Act survive a Trump administration, or would a Clinton presidency keep the ACA intact? Is the United States prepared for a …
Stanford study shows Medicare Advantage plans pay hospitals less than traditional Medicare
There's much debate among health policy researchers about the performance of the Medicare Advantage plans, which are sold and run by private insurance companies but …
When it comes to health, U.S. men have long benefited from women in power
It’s always great to see the work of one of our researchers shouted out in the New York Times. It’s even better when it becomes the …
Rosenkranz Prize winner to launch microbiome research project in Africa
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, has a gut feeling about many medical maladies. That is, she believes that we can fight some diseases by learning more …