September 2018 - The Health Care Blog

Is Universal Health Care Socialism?

By ETIENNE DEFFARGES The November midterms elections are approaching, and one of the major topics is health care. Democrats are campaigning on retaining Obamacare, in many cases advocating that we move towards universal health care. That would be pure...

Published Wed, Sep 05 2018 9:57 AM by THCB

Filed under: Economics, Socialism, Universal Health Care, UntanglingtheUSA

Does free medical school decrease social justice?

BY ANISH KOKA MD The hottest medical school in the country right now is the New York University School of Medicine thanks to the gift of a generous benefactor that promises to make medical school free for all current and future medical students. The news...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2018 5:05 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, @anish_koka

Disrupting the Cholesterol Test: Finnish Startup Nightingale Health

By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health Today’s cholesterol test is about to be disrupted. Nightingale Health, a five-year-old startup based out of Finland, has built a better blood test that – among other things – is about to disrupt the cholesterol test...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2018 4:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: Startup, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Finland health tech, metabolic data, blood test, Nightingale Health

A Rosa Parks Moment is Coming in Phase 1 Cancer Trials

By DAVID C. NORRIS, MD I want to tell you about the most exciting discovery I’ve made in 2+ years of research on dose individualization methods for phase 1 cancer trials. This discovery has nothing to do with any of the technical problems I’ve...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2018 11:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: pharmaceuticals, Drug discovery, Cancer, Precision Medicine, Patient advocates, DTAT, DAVID C. NORRIS, Dose Individualization, Pharmaceutical Innovation

Limitations of Randomized Controlled Trials

By, SAURABH JHA In the hierarchy of evidence-based medicine (EBM), randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are like Brahmins. But do Brahmins have flaws? I discuss these flaws with Dr. Anish Koka, a cardiologist and essayist who has written extensively about...

Published Sat, Sep 22 2018 1:57 PM by THCB

Filed under: Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, @RogueRad; Radiology Firing Line Podcast

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 51

In this Episode of #healthin2pt00 Jess & I do a real recap of the Health 2.0 Conference. I mention some of the startups that I thought were great, including Supportiv, Tag.bio, Nebula Genomics, Bluestream Health, Medically Home, b.well, and Medsafe...

Published Tue, Sep 25 2018 11:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Bluestream Health, Supportiv, Tag.bio, Nebula Genomics, Medically Home, Medsafe, b.well, Project HEAL

A conversation with Dr. Nicole Saphier

I have a wide ranging conversation with Dr. Nicole Saphier for JACR’s Firing Line Podcast. Dr. Saphier is a radiologist specializing in women’s imaging. We discuss screening mammograms and the *** density law. Dr. Saphier, a frequent contributor...

Published Sat, Sep 08 2018 11:27 AM by THCB

Filed under: @roguerad, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 48

Jessica DaMassa asks me about Cricket Health’s $24m raise for kidney disease services, Rx.Health from Mount Sinai and a whole bunch of big money in little China. All in 2 minutes–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 05 2018 9:15 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Ping An, good doctor, Ashish Atreja, Jianke Pharmacy, WeDoctor, Rx.Health, cricket health

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