Brenda Fitzgerald has been appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What differentiates her from Thomas Frieden, who previously held the role?
These numbers are pretty shocking: New findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that almost a third of women, ages 15 to 55, have filled a prescription for an opioid each year from 2008 to 2012 – most commonly oxycodone, hydrocodone and codeine. The C.D.C. analyzed health insurance claims from both […]
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Of course we all understand that mistakes happen, but it’s slightly more disconcerting when it not only involves the virus that has terrified many parts of the country, but that it happened at one of the most respected research centers in the world. Regardless, a sample of the live Ebola virus could have come in […]
It’s flu season, and we know there are different strains of the illness, including H3N2, influenza B, and a decendent of the swine flu, an H1 subtype. But problems are now arriving because the current vaccines don’t work with a particular strain, one that is spreading. In this case, a new H3 subtype will be tough to […]