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Scott Halpern, ABC Action News, Controversial Lung Transplant
"I don't think we want judges making medical decisions any more than we want doctors deciding Supreme Court cases," LDI Senior Fellow Scott Halpern told ABC News in an interview about the controversial lung transplant quest of 10-year-old of Sarah Murnaghan. She was recently put on the adult lung donor list…
Mark Duggan, American Public Media, Medicare Part D
LDI Senior Fellow Mark Duggan was featured on an American Public Media "Marketplace" radio report about the Medicare Part D program which is now the subject of scrutiny by a Senate Committee. Duggan, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at Penn's Wharton School, and Faculty Director…
Susan Domchek, Businessweek, Mastectomies
LDI Senior Fellow, oncologist, and Director of Penn's Basser Research Center Susan Domchek has been the subject of widespread national press pickup in the wake of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy. In publications like Bloomberg Businessweek, Domchek, MD, is widely quoted about the risk and benefits of preventive breast removal as…
Steven Marcus, Reuters, Less Effective Drugs?
The effectiveness of new drugs -- as measured by published clinical trials comparing the response of patients taking those treatments to those taking a placebo -- has declined significantly since the 1970s, according to a new study co-authored by LDI Senior Fellow Steven Marcus. Originally published in Health Affairs, the…
Ezekiel Emanuel, Science Daily, Cancer Drug Shortages
LDI Senior Fellow and oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel is a co-author of a new study that found 83% of cancer doctors report that they've faced oncology drug shortages, and of those, nearly all say their patients' treatment has been impacted. The authors point to the necessity of creating new guidelines to deal…
Kevin Volpp, The Atlantic, Employee Wellness
A lengthy article in The Atlantic magazine extensively quotes LDI Senior Fellow Kevin Volpp on issues related to the recently released final federal rules for employer-based wellness programs. In it, Volpp, MD, PhD and Director of the LDI Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE), explains the basic principles of…
Scott Halpern, Medscape, ICU Night Staff
A one-year, 1,598-patient study in an academic medical center has found that staffing a nighttime critical care physician in the ICU did not improve health outcomes, according to an article in Medscape. The study, on which LDI Senior Fellow Scott Halpern served as senior author, was presented at the 2013…
Mark Pauly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hospital Billing Variations
LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article exploring the growing debate over the wide variation in prices for the same hospital services. Pauly, PhD, is a Professor of Health Care Management at Penn's Wharton School.
Ezekiel Emanuel, Wall Street Journal, Health Insurance Exchanges
Nathaniel DeNicola, WebMD, Elective Cesarean Births
A new study led by LDI Senior Fellow Nathaniel DeNicola has found that two-thirds of U.S. hospitals have implemented policies to eliminate unnecessary cesarean births. Nathaniel said in a WebMD article, "There is reason to be encouraged that hospital policies are decreasing the frequency of this practice, and we expect…
Nabila Dahodwala, WHYY Newsworks, Dancing With Parkinson's
Timothy Rebbeck, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cancer Clusters
Although they are the subject of great fear, controversy and lawsuits, cancer clusters in the vicinity of polluted industrial sites are difficult to prove because of gaps in our scientific knowledge about the exact mechanism by which toxic chemicals trigger cancers, according to LDI Senior Fellow Timothy Rebbeck. Rebbeck, PhD and…
Brian Strom, New York Times, Salt and Health
The federal committee study led by LDI Senior Fellow Brian Strom that found no basis for further reductions in the recommended daily salt-intake limit continues to generate publicity across the country. The study has been the subject of major articles in The New York Times, USA Today, NBC News,…
Therese Richmond Inducted Into International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
| Senior Fellow Therese Richmond will be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. |
Tom Baker, Wall Street Journal, Executive Liability Ruling
LDI Senior Fellow Tom Baker is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about a California appeals court ruling that found no moral hazard for an insurance company to pay the defense costs of an executive battling criminal charges. The decision may have wider implications beyond California. Baker, JD, is a…
David Grande and Robert Field, Radio Times, ACA Update
LDI Senior Fellows David Grande and Robert Field appeared on a one-hour WHYY Radio Times show with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss the implications of surveys showing that large segments of the U.S. population don't know about or understand the Affordable Care Act. Grande, MD, MPA, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine…
Lisa Rosenbaum, The Atlantic, In-flight Medical Emergencies
LDI Senior Fellow Lisa Rosenbaum is quoted in an article in The Atlantic magazine about the unpredictable nature of responding to in-flight medical emergencies. Rosenbaum, MD, is a cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.
Robert Gross, Agence France-Presse, Childhood HIV
A new comparative study of the most effective drugs for treating HIV-infected children co-authored by LDI Senior Fellow Robert Gross is the subject of a story distributed internationally by Agence France-Presse, France's largest news wire service. Gross, MD, MSCE, is an Associate Professor of both Medicine and Biostatistics and Epidemiology…
