One look at #healthpolicyvalentines will convince you that healthcare policy and Valentine’s Day emotions make for humorous (and slightly racy) bedfellows.Twitter user Emma Sandoe, a self-described health policy budgeteer, started it all when she tweeted: “I would competitively bid for you #healthpolicyvalentines last week. And since then a gush of tweets have emanated each competing [...]

The ongoing battle to repeal the medical device tax continues with the latest campaign being led by House GOP freshman Todd Rokita from Indiana.Rokita, along with 74 cosigners, sent a letterMonday to Speaker John Boehner that asked him to bring a bill to the floor that would essentially kill the $2.2 billion annual tax to [...]

Turns out the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t achieve the impact it’s looking for in communications with physicians. That finding is drawn from a new paper that evaluates the impact of FDA warning labels and public health advisories over the past 20 years.Some disappointing examples are noted:FDA recommended diabetes monitoring for patients taking atypical antipsychotics, [...]

This month is MedCityNews.com’s 3rd birthday. Over three years, with your help, we’ve grown from a site focused on healthcare innovation in Cleveland to the leading online portal reporting nationally on innovation and business-to-business insight for leaders in the healthcare and the life sciences.Knowing what our readers need has been a key to our success. [...]

It’s too bad former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney doesn’t want to talk about his state’s health care reform legislation on the campaign trail. If he did, he’d have a pretty good story to tell.The reform plan, which President Obama used as a model for the national reform, lifted the number of insured residents in the [...]

The above graph from Dan Diamond on Twitter makes clear the role healthcare reform played in President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address: Not much.As predicted by MedCity News on Monday, Obama’s 2012 State of the Union featured only passing references to health policy, as the president chose to focus more broadly on economic [...]

Healthcare has been one of the major topics of the American political debate since President Obama took office and implemented his Affordable Care Act, nicknamed ’Obama Care.’ The U.S. reorganization of healthcare has been of interest to the world, as many countries are observing and awaiting the outcome of this controversial healthcare plan.While some look [...]

Current medical news from today, including HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ appearance on The Daily Show, brand loyalty in healthcare and more mobile health investment.

Healthcare played an important role in last year’s State of the Union address, as President Barack Obama sought to highlight ways his administration could work with Republicans to amend his controversial health reform law in the wake of Democrats’ crushing defeat in 2010 mid-term elections.But it looks unlikely that healthcare will garner more than a [...]

I find it really strange that dental care is excluded from health insurance, including commercial and government programs. It’sincreasinglyuntenable in my view. Why?Neglect of dental issues due to lack of coverage causes higher medical expenses, for example as dental infections spread to other parts of the bodyHospital emergency rooms are seeing many dental cases (representing [...]