The Economics of Indication-Based Drug Pricing
The article presents the authors' views on the economics of pricing pharmaceutical treatments and medical devices based on indication of their utilization.
Research
Girl Child Marriage as a Risk Factor for Early Childhood Development and Stunting
This paper quantitatively examines the intergenerational effects of girl child marriage, or the developmental and health outcomes of children born to women who marry before age 18.
Emergency Department Holding Orders
Holding orders help transition admitted emergency department (ED) patients to hospital beds.
Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity through Existing Civil Rights Laws
More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, health care for racial and ethnic minorities remains in many ways separate and unequal in the United States.
Resource Utilization in Emergency Department Patients with Known or Suspected Poisoning
Introduction Previous work has shown poisoning-related emergency department (ED) visits are increasing, and these visits are resource-intensive.
Health Policy Trials
The article focuses on health policy regarding the clinical trials which are commonly associated with drugs and devices with the degree of cost sharing borne by the patient or the scope of covered ser
Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging?
The Republican Health Care Debacle: How Not to Make Public Policy
In early May, the U.S.
An FDA Commissioner for the 21st Century
President Donald Trump has named Scott Gottlieb as his nominee to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines
Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that ot
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