EU Rules Are Suffocating Academic Cancer Trials, Researchers Warn
European oncologists document how clinical-trial regulation has driven academic treatment optimization studies toward collapse and propose a risk-adapted framework tied ...
Tag: Health Policy
Pandemic-era opioid treatment flexibilities widened racial gaps in Veterans Health Administration care
A Veterans Health Administration study of 110,136 patients with opioid use disorder found that racial and ethnic gaps in receipt ...
Why Children’s Eye Exams Miss the Mark: Inside Kuala Lumpur’s Cycloplegia Dilemma
A qualitative study of eye care professionals in Kuala Lumpur reveals how regulatory ambiguity, fragmented referral pathways, and cost barriers ...
Targeting Malaria Interventions by Geography Could Stretch Scarce Health Budgets
A spatially explicit model of malaria transmission in southeastern Madagascar shows that community-based interventions targeted by geography can match district-wide ...
Nutrition Services in Primary Care: Time, Money and Guidelines Stand Between Prevention and Practice
A mixed-methods study of 50 primary healthcare facilities in the Republic of Srpska reveals that while 92.4 percent provide nutrition ...
China’s Drug Price Cuts Under Scrutiny: Massive Review Finds No Clear Evidence Procured Generics Perform Worse
A systematic review of 81 studies finds no evidence that China's volume-based procurement generics perform worse than originator drugs, though ...
Poisoned Water, Broken Trust: Camp Lejeune Veterans Reveal Their Feelings About the VA
A qualitative study of 22 Camp Lejeune Veterans reveals that trust in the Veterans Health Administration is shaped by positive ...
Switzerland’s Private Hospital Insurance Faces a Make-or-Break Moment, Policy Brief Warns
A new policy brief warns that Switzerland's supplementary private hospitalization insurance must modernize its products and improve transparency as mandatory ...
How Australia Built a Cancer Care Pathway for Rural and Remote Patients
Australian researchers describe the governance, consultation and implementation strategies used to develop a nationally endorsed cancer care pathway for rural ...
Lifting Medicaid Prescription Caps Boosted HIV Medication Adherence, Study Finds
A difference-in-differences study found that removing South Carolina's Medicaid prescription cap increased antiretroviral adherence among people with HIV by 4.6 ...
Drones and eVTOL air ambulances are racing toward real emergency medicine — but policy is lagging behind
A first-of-its-kind triple-method study maps 683 publications and 168 studies on drone- and eVTOL-enabled emergency care, finding strong clinical and ...
Medicare Opens the Door to Caregiver Training, but Early Adoption Tells a Cautious Story
A new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine tracks how clinicians began using Medicare's newly reimbursed caregiver training ...
How Georgia Built Its National Digital Health Strategy With 47 Stakeholders in One Room
A structured multistakeholder workshop in Georgia transformed a draft national digital health strategy into a technically specific, EU-aligned roadmap with ...
Cancer Care Guidelines Get a Reality Check: Adapting Supportive Care to Real-World Resources
An international team examines five critical challenges in adapting supportive cancer care guidelines to the realities of resource-constrained health systems ...
Which Cases Should Doctors Check? New Framework Targets AI Oversight Gaps
A new Journal of Medical Systems Comment argues that how clinical AI systems select cases for human review must itself ...
Voluntary Priority Program for Older Kidneys Could Add 900 Transplants a Year
A Virginia Tech-led study finds that a voluntary priority program matching older donor kidneys with patients over 65 could add ...
England’s Mental Health Trusts Struggle to Make New NHS Roles Work, Leaders Reveal
A qualitative study of workforce leaders across English mental health trusts reveals that introducing new NHS roles triggers unintended system ...
New Framework Urges Health Systems to Measure Trust and Continuity in Primary Care
A new viewpoint in the Journal of General Internal Medicine proposes a Primary Care Value Dashboard that would measure access, ...
Trust, Not Technical Detail, Drives Public Support for Gender-Neutral Blood Donor Screening
A qualitative study of Australian donors and non-donors finds majority support for gender-neutral sexual behaviour screening in blood donation, grounded ...
Where End-of-Life Care Fails: Global Study Maps Unmet Needs of Older Adults
A landmark cross-national study finds that wealthy countries with formal care systems show higher unmet end-of-life care needs than China ...
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