The field of medicine has been plagued by the underrepresentation of African Americans, people of Hispanic heritage, and Native Americans, as well as institutional racism and sexism that have persisted for decades.
The American Medical Association released a plan on Tuesday to confront structural racism inside the organization and the entire US medical establishment.
Although there is no correlation for changes in out-of-pocket spending with changes in list or net drug prices overall, for patients who pay deductibles or coinsurance, out-of-pocket spending increases when list drug prices increase.
For many health care professionals, successfully managing uncertainty means recognizing that surety is complicated and illusory and knowledge is iterative and provisional rather than definitive.
A funeral assistance program that will provide up to $9,000 to cover the burial costs of every American who died of COVID-19 will be launched next week.
The researchers evaluated the various impacts of the concurrent COVID-19 and opioid epidemics, taking into consideration the severely restricted access to chronic pain management.
