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Making Progress in Cancer Diagnostics: Clinical Practice and Policy
Join the Health, Medicine and Society Program of the Aspen Institute and the USC Schaeffer Center for a webinar on new clinical advances in cancer screening and the policy issues surrounding access to and adoption of these advances.
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Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The researchers examine changes in health care use during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April of 2020 relative to March and April of 2019 and 2018, and to examine whether changes in use differ by patient’s zip code–level race/ethnicity or income.
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For the Sake of Kidney Patients, Vote No on Proposition 23
As a kidney doctor and health policy researcher, I am appalled that patients have become a bargaining chip in a game that could result in massive dialysis shortages, increased costs, and death.
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PNAS: Decoding the Mystery of American Pain Reveals a Warning for the Future
In America today, the elderly report less pain than those in midlife. This is the mystery of American pain.
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Chronic diseases are among the most preventable and costliest conditions, consuming the overwhelming majority of Medicare resources. The Schaeffer Center assembles leading minds from across disciplines to address this challenge, striving to simplify labyrinthine systems of care and promote healthier outcomes.
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The “Advancing American Kidney Health” Executive Order: Challenges and Opportunities for the Large Dialysis Organizations
This perspective in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases examines how the “Advancing American Kidney Health” Executive Order (AAKH) might reshape the US dialysis market.
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Lifetime Burden of Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the USA Using a Microsimulation Model
There is a significant burden of disease among individuals with CHD; the disease affects quality of life, disability, life expectancy, medical spending, chronic disease, as well as employment and education outcomes.
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California Leads in Public Investment in Biomedical Innovation and It Is Beginning to Show Returns
Schaeffer Center research indicates public investment into biomedical innovation yields substantial economic and social return in California.
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The Economic Case for Public Investment in Stem Cell Research
Our analysis shows the measure resulted in over 56,000 jobs created and added approximately $10 billion to the state’s economy.
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Early Delays in Insurance Coverage and Long- Term Use of Home- Based Peritoneal Dialysis
The study analyzes Medicare coverage delays among the uninsured and their effect on long-term peritoneal dialysis use.
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Early Detection: A New Front in the War on Cancer
Blood tests that find malignancies before they spread couldtransform our approach to treatment, Goldman wrote in Scientific American.
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