Health Policy

NEW ORLEANS — In this video, Shari M. Erickson, MPH, chief advocacy officer at ACP, highlights several health policy developments she presented at ACP Internal Medicine Meeting “that are really important for physicians to be aware of.”

The mass layoffs initiated by HHS this week, including in the upper echelons of the NIH, have sowed chaos and will make Americans less safe from disease, experts warned.

In this episode, guest Tina Shah, MD, discusses the impact of artificial intelligence in medicine and how it can assist in managing physician burnout and clinical burden.

The American Optometric Association Health Policy Institute has released a new brief to educate the public on blepharitis, its symptoms and treatment options.

ASH will honor Judith Kleinerman, MD, with the 2024 ASH Exemplary Service Award during the ASH Annual Meeting.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Alice Chen, MD, about the impact of misinformation and disinformation during elections, the health care issues on the 2024 ballot and more.

The Inflation Reduction Act’s cap on out-of-pocket spending saved patients with cancer more than $7,000 a year on oral chemotherapy medications, a research letter analysis published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Pregnant surgeons experienced significantly higher rates of obstetric complications compared with the general U.S. pregnant population, according to results of a literature review.

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce to overturn a decades-old decision known as the “Chevron deference.”

Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, FASCO, will receive the Joseph Simone Quality Care Award and Lecture at this year’s ASCO Quality Care Symposium, scheduled for Sept. 27-28.