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• Your doctor says you have six months to live. Should you believe him?

  July 23, 2008 in Information

  Your doctor says you have six months to live. How accurate is this figure? Do you really have 4 moths to live? One year? A paper by …

• Americans have the best cancer survival rates

  July 22, 2008 in International Health Care Systems, Medical Studies

  On Friday I reported that the U.S. scored poorly on the Commonwealth Fund’s National Scorecard. Those in favor of universal health care are probably rejoicing. “The …

• Roche to buy Genentech?

  July 21, 2008 in Current Events, Pharmaceuticals

  In “Does Roche have Genentech’s Rx?”, NPR’s Marketplace reports on Roche’s bid to purchase all of Genentech, a firm that developed the three best-selling cancer drugs in the …

• How San Diego is solving it’s traffic problem

  July 21, 2008 in Economics - General, Taxes

  Last year, I wrote a blog post about how Los Angeles could fix its traffic problems.  Today, the San …

• Cochrane Review: The effect of capitation, fee-for-service (FFS) and mixed payment systems on primary care physician behavior

  July 21, 2008 in Academic Articles, Physician Compensation

  Primary care physicians can be compensated in a number of ways. The most popular are capitation, fee-for-service, salary, or some mixture of the three. But how does the physician compensation method affect care …