As of Jan. 1, in the name of transparency, the Trump admin required that all hospitals post their list prices online. But what is popping up on medical center websites is a dog’s breakfast of medical codes, abbreviations and dollar signs — in little discernible order — that may initially serve to confuse more than illuminate
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Mount Sinai Sees Appetite for Dietitian-Designed Meal ServicesJanuary 2, 2019 |
The health system is boosting its investment in Epicured, which provides meals for patients with digestive diseases. “Transparency has to be meaningful, honest, consistent and understandable,” said Dr. Ruth Faden, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore
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Sarah Kliff Read 1,182 Emergency Room Bills. Here’s What She LearnedDecember 19, 2018 |
A $5,571 bill to sit in a waiting room, $238 eyedrops, and a $60 ibuprofen tell the story of how emergency room visits are squeezing patients
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Biomedical Research Is Becoming More Open About Its Funding and DataNovember 27, 2018 |
More journal articles are now including statements about conflicts of interest and data sharing
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Spinal-cord stimulators — devices that use electrical currents to block pain signals before they reach the brain — are more dangerous than many patients know, an AP investigation found. They account for the third-highest number of medical device injury reports to the FDA, with more than 80,000 incidents flagged since 2008
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When Nikia Jackson needed to be screened for a sexually transmitted disease, she wanted a clinic that was reputable, quick and inexpensive. After searching online, Jackson, 23, ended up at the Obria Medical Clinic. She was unaware that the clinic does not offer kinds of birth control beyond so-called natural family planning methods
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When is it OK For Archaeologists to Dig Up the Dead?September 10, 2018 |
Banana was code for human bones, on one archaeological dig where I’ve worked. We were excavating a cemetery, several thousand years old, and had permits from the appropriate authorities. However, certain religious groups in the area had a history of protesting any destruction of burials, so we kept our work discrete
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Can a National Conscience Be Gene-Edited?August 14, 2018 |
Gene editing is at once promising and perilous. Or, as John Oliver said in a recent episode of his news show, it is ”either going to kill all disease or kill every last one of us.”
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