Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/health-science/)
The behavior alleged in the recent civil and criminal actions brought against Rochester Drug Co-operative and other opioid distributors and manufacturers is reprehensible. But they are not the only ones responsible for the explosive, deadly growth in the supply of the addictive drugs.
UR Medicine and Rochester Regional Health recently kicked off programs to give patients access to some of their doctors’ clinical notes. Will the move create challenges?
On Dec. 14 a Texas judge declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. In New York, the New York State of Heath insurance exchange reported gains in enrollment.
Is an alternative payment scheme designed to cut costs and improve care inadvertently shortchanging minorities and poorer patients? A URMC researcher aims to find out.
It was only a few months ago that the University of Rochester’s Laser Lab was uncertain about its future. Now, it has joined eight other high-intensity laser facilities tasked with restoring the nation’s competitive edge in laser research.
While the number of children diagnosed with some cognitive disorders is rising, a definitive answer to what causes them has remained elusive. A local researcher hopes to investigate at the prenatal stage.
A tribal conflict over the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has rekindled support for universal access and the single-payer model. The Rochester Beacon asked the St. Joseph Neighborhood Center’s Sr. Christine Wagner and former Excellus CEO David Klein to address this important topic.
Rochester health care providers are hard at work averting another type of opioid crisis: a shortage of injectable opioids for home hospice and other outpatients who truly need them. How are they dealing with the challenge?
It will take a lot of faith to support the New York State Health Act, a proposal to establish a single-payer system in New York. Can a single-payer plan achieve universal coverage? What would be required to implement the plan? And, if implemented, can it save money or, at least, break even?
Faced with rising costs and declining payments, a growing number of doctors in private practice are quitting the fight. Remaining private practitioners increasingly are driven by economics to form or join large group practices.
We stand watch at Obamacare’s bedside today, filled with uncertainty about the timing of its demise and what will follow. This is likely to be a bad death, filled with misery and leaving behind discord.
