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Pfizer shareholder meeting offers an inside look at the pharma industry

Early treatment with gene therapy: lessons from vaccines

U.S. biologics and biosimilars need distinguishable names

What Tom Brady and Beyoncé can teach surgeons: Coaching can keep you sharp

What my polio-stricken mother would tell parents today about the importance of immunization

As a doctor in the ICU, I sometimes feel helpless. Poetry provides solace

Medicare Part D must evolve to help people fight cancer

Medicare payment rules hinder the fight against superbugs

Life-course vaccination can protect adults from infectious disease

The trouble with mice as behavioral models for Alzheimer’s and other neurologic diseases

He Jiankui, embryo editing, CCR5, the London patient, and jumping to conclusions

Health care needs less #innovation

Draft rules on health information: a ‘Reformation’ in the making?

Missing from the PBM hearings: value-based drug reimbursement

Electronic health records are still waiting to be transformed

Sobriety is just one pathway to recovery. Harm reduction is another

The real border crisis is occurring in medical and emergency clinics

Medicare for All should guarantee coverage for oral health

Creating new antimicrobial drugs will require governments working with industry

Health aides’ low wages threaten home health care, a necessity for millions

Value-based agreements could disrupt how we pay for new therapies

Taking care of Charlie helped one California town nearly halve hospital use

High-quality care can lower U.S. health care costs: a case study from Brooklyn

Overdose prevention sites can help cities like Philadelphia save lives

Sen. Grassley: Stop kicking Medicaid’s safety net hospital payments down the road

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