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Internet has provided multiple option for price comparison through website aggregators. On health insurance you can find several alternative...

Searching for Public Health Law’s Sweet Spot: The Regulation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Nowadays, obesity prevention lies at the heart o...

Panning for gold: sourcing pharmaceutical innovation Once upon a time there were pharmaceutical firms that invested mostly in internal R+D...

Direct Access Testing is the next battle for a new market for lab testing. This is at least what Theranos considers and has been lobbying f...

Competition among Health Care Providers – Investigating Policy Options in the European Union Let's imagine an official in European Com...

Breaking New Ground with RWE Some decades ago evidence based medicine was the key issue in understanding effectiveness in health care and...

Finally the government has decided to organise genetic counseling and testing. A recent instruction determines who does what. As you may re...

World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior Understanding human behavior is one of the main scientific endevours of our cur...

Let's think of two countries artificially separated by political borders. Both have the same income per capita (~27,700 €) and belong to...

Valuing vaccination A PNAS article sets a broader perspective on valuing vaccines. It is of interest in light of current difteria case. M...

Let Me Heal. The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine We usually emphasize the level of resources when we assess the re...

Population health Systems: Going beyond integrated care In this blog I have mentioned several times the works by Kindig on population hea...

Waiting for the opportune moment: the tobacco industry and marijuana legalization Is it possible to prevent another public health catastro...

Some weeks ago I was posting on "Evidence-based economics going mainstream" , in fact the title was only taken from the book by T...