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Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease NIH-led research on structural racism was published Friday, even as the Trump administration has cancelled and discredited such work.

Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/s... via @statnews.com

Health Affairs Scholar Expands Its Reach with Fast-Tracked Peer Review and New Article Formats to Meet Today’s Needs William B Feldman, MD, DPhil, MPH, Kathryn A Phillips, PhD, Donald E Metz; Health Affairs Scholar Expands Its Reach with Fast-Tracked Peer Review and New A

#HAScholar @Health_Affairs announces fast-track submission pathway and diverse and flexible article types that enable Health Affairs family to remain on cutting edge of evidence-based policy. Health Affairs Scholar Expands Its Reach to Meet Today’s Needs academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Commercial Insurers Paid More For Procedures At Hospital Outpatient Departments Than At Ambulatory Surgical Centers | Health Affairs Journal Site neutrality in payment practices has become a salient issue in the US health care debate, as rising prices have brought increased pressure for policy action. Although Medicare has received disprop...

Excellent analysis that contributes to what we know beyond Medicare on this topic. Commercial Insurers Paid More For Procedures At Hospital Outpatient Departments Than At Ambulatory Surgical Centers | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

The Largest Study of a Multi-Cancer Early Detection Blood Test Reviewing the new data and the "liquid biopsy" field

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Social Policies as Determinants of Health: New Evidence, Ongoing Challenges, and Future Pathways Abstract. Despite acknowledgment that social and economic policies fundamentally shape health, persistent geographic and sociodemographic inequities in the

Timely overview of important topic by @ritahamad.bsky.social #HAScholar @Health_Affairs. Social Policies as Determinants of Health: New Evidence, Ongoing Challenges, and Future Pathways url: academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Provenance and Funding of Extremely Cited Biomedical Articles Published Between 2003 and 2024 This cross-sectional study explores the origin and funding of top-cited biomedical publications with regard to numbers of articles originating in the US and supported by the National Institutes of Hea...

Useful! Provenance and Funding of Extremely Cited Biomedical Articles Published Between 2003 and 2024 url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Here's where behavioral economics and the great insights of Daniel Kahneman (who I learned so much from when I took his class at UC-Berkeley) could be useful....

The Doctors Building a Public-Health Universe Outside the Government A growing contingent of physicians and policymakers are breaking away from federal health guidance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Trump administration makes demands for UCLA policy changes in exchange for funding - Daily Bruin The Trump administration is seeking to exert control over several of UCLA’s admissions, protest and health care policies in exchange for the university’s research funding, according to a draft settlem...

Details on demands by Trump Administration to UCLA that could have far-reaching and long-lasting implications for entire UC system. dailybruin.com/2025/09/15/t...

Opinion | American Health Care Gets a Lot Wrong. Here’s What It Gets Right.

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The Worst Piece of Health Care Legislation Ever This JAMA forum discusses the cuts to US health care spending in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and their impacts on Medicare and Medicaid recipients, physicians, and hospitals, particularly those in ...

An old adage is that US health care policymaking is so complex that even good ideas cannot get enacted. Alas, we have now the reverse: legislation so bad that even those who voted for it wish it was reversed.
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Stand Up for UC The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from UCLA puts the entire University of California system at risk. Stand with us to protect UC.

The federal government’s $1B demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate @UCLA and its critical mission. Join me and #StandUpForUC to defend @uofcalifornia and support its life-saving work. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Comparison of Food and Drug Administration expedited approvals and guideline updates: A case study of immune checkpoint inhibitors in colon cancer care

Excited to announce that a TRANSPERS paper on expedited approvals and guidelines has been published @kathrynp-phd.bsky.social @ucsf-transpers.bsky.social
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Excited to be able to publish this in Health Affairs Scholar #HA Scholar!

Synthesizing Science, Policy, and Precision Medicine: A Conversation with Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD July 28, 2025 · The founder and director of the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS), who is receiving the UCSF Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecture,...

Honored to be interviewed for newsletter: " Health economist. Policy innovator. Thought leader in precision medicine" pharmacy.ucsf.edu/news/2025/07...

@MaryWoolleyRA - who has been my inspiration for her dedication to advancing science - is stepping down from @ResearchAmerica after 35 years. Read about her many accomplishments & contributions. She will be missed. t.co/czmoOCakGX

Read the latest TRANSPERS news on Cost-Effectiveness and Equity, Awards, Arctic Adventures, and more conta.cc/3H95Pty

Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.

Very insightful article with more nuances than title suggests. Cites @robcaliff.bsky.social

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Excited that our National Academies report on aligning spending w/ therapeutic needs - after a year of work - is being released! @theNASEM Webinar 7/15 - register here. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45333_...

RFK Jr. says medical journals are ‘corrupt.’ As former NEJM editors, we know he’s wrong RFK Jr.’s plan to circumvent established medical journals smacks more of retaliation than reform, write three former NEJM editors.

RFK Jr. says medical journals are ‘corrupt.’ As former NEJM editors, we know he’s wrong www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/r... via @statnews.com

Two years of publishing: onward and upward Only 2 years ago, we launched the inaugural issue of Health Affairs Scholar: Emerging and Global Health Policy (HAS)—the first new journal in Health Affair

#HAScholar @Health_Affairs celebrates 2nd anniversary! Now in leading indices & w/ a preliminary impact factor, we provide rapid and high quality review & publication. > 250,000 full text downloads in 2024! Two years of publishing: onward and upward. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Cancer Drugs Cost More Than Ever. They Often Don’t Extend Lives Pharmaceutical companies are making billions on treatments that can sometimes overpromise and underdeliver for terminal cases.

Good summary of key issues.
Cancer drugs cost more than ever, but some blockbuster treatments have never proven they keep patients alive longer www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... via @bbgvisualdata

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

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Review and Publication Times and Reporting Across Journals on Health Policy This cross-sectional study compares how a broad range of journals vs a narrow set of specialty journals report and measure review and publication times and assesses these patterns across journals.

Our study in JAMA Network Open found review & publication times across health policy journals often missing or murky, with wide variability. Need more transparency, standardization, & analysis of how to achieve fast dissemination but also high quality. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives

Important study not only re Medicaid but also see ratings of cost per life saved across interventions - eye-opening!. As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/h...

Mark McClellan notes the rapid evolution of the Medicare program and need for reforms and legislation that can address the challenges for both Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare as the former continues to rapidly grow. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Rob Califf notes need for fundamental shift toward prevention-focused, community-based healthcare, and addressing critical vulnerabilities in pharmaceutical supply chains and misinformation. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Institute for Clinical and Economic Review's role in the US health care system: Centering the patient perspective Abstract. Consequential health decisions in the United States are often made behind closed doors without input from patients and other critical stakeholder

#HAScholar @Health_Affairs is delighted to publish 1st article in ongoing series “Insights from ICER: Drug Policy and Beyond”. Emond and Fischer explore how @icer_review works to ensure that patient community voices and values are central in drug value assessments. bit.ly/4jLLw2W

Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging This risk model projects how many future cancers in the United States could result from annual computed tomography examinations.

@UCSF colleagues find higher than expected. Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Read the latest TRANSPERS news on Payer Decision-Making, Patient-Centered Genomics, and more conta.cc/4cRXl5x