Policy Perspectives

Change of Thinking About Medicine -- Providing the 'Right Care' Overuse and underuse of medicine are enormous problems worldwide, causing suffering and waste of funds; a change of thinking is urgently needed.
News, January 10, 2017
Radiotherapy Confers No Additional Benefit for Mesothelioma A randomized trial shows no extra benefit from adding radiotherapy after surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy for mesothelioma.
News, November 11, 2015
Where Physicians Stand Now on the Healthcare Debate To get a better understanding of where physicians find themselves in this rapidly shifting debate, Medscape Medical News talked to healthcare pollster and analyst Robert J. Blendon, ScD.
News, September 29, 2009
Continuing Controversy Over Comparative Effectiveness Research In recent months comparative effectiveness research -- examination of which treatments work best in clinical practice -- has been at the center of a pivotal and increasingly acrimonious policy debate.
News, August 12, 2009
Physician Distribution: An Old Problem Receives New Attention Experts provide potential solutions for the widening maldistribution of physicians and other healthcare professionals across the nation.
News, May 14, 2009

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