Ryan Barker has a new title at Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH), vice president of strategic initiatives, according to a November 2019 e-alert. He was formerly vice president of health policy, and that position at the MFH, based in St. Louis, is still open (see below). MFH recently restructured its executive team. Read Barker’s 2012 post on Health Affairs Blog’s GrantWatch section, “What…
Since 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that antidepressants may be associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors among youth. An FDA advisory…
Medicare’s persistent underinvestment in primary care services has contributed to stresses in US health care; this underscores the important role Medicare can play in creating…
By advancing the integration of Food Is Medicine in health care through community collaboration, we can significantly enhance patient outcomes, improve health care delivery, and…
Little is known about how long it takes for new medicines to reach countries with different income levels. We analyzed data, sourced from IQVIA, on…
Greater food- and nutrition-security should be prioritized to improve population health. Society should invest significantly. But FIM programs through the medical system may not be…
If CMS cannot persuade GRAIL of the importance of randomization and using cancer death as the outcome, then it should cancel the study.
CMS must develop and share publicly a clear evidence synthesis process that it will follow in future rounds of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program.
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There’s growing national recognition that we should redirect more of our health care dollars to make primary care stronger and more accessible. However, policy makers…
HHS breaks some notable new ground by proposing to account for receipt of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) when calculating enrollee risk scores and by seeking…
