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Far More Transparency is Needed for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
November 2020
With vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, on the near-term horizon, U.S. policymakers are focusing on how to ensure that Americans get vaccinated.
Coronavirus Could Make America’s Gun Problem Even Deadlier
June 2020
Millions of Americans have experienced the coronavirus pandemic directly, as they or their loved ones suffered through infection.
Standing Up against Gender Bias and Harassment — A Matter of Professional Ethics
April 2020
“We believe health professionals have a moral duty to practice `upstanding’ — intervening as bystanders — in response to sexual harassment and general bias and that this obligation should be...
Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform
March 2017
Medical malpractice reform appears to be back on the federal policy agenda.
Shifting Vaccination Politics — The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California
July 2015
Stanford Health Policy's David Studdert and Michelle Mello discuss SB 277, a new California law that ends exceptions to vaccination mandates based on religious and philosophical beliefs, leaving...
Half-Baked — The Retail Promotion of Marijuana Edibles
March 2015
FSI Fellow Robert MacCoun and co-author Michelle Mello argue for regulation of marijana-infused edible products.
The Dedicated VAT Solution
August 2010
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, co-chaired by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Senate Whip AlanSimpson, faces two over...
Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
June 2010
Objectives: Emergency departments (EDs) are increasingly proposed as high-yield venues for providing preventive health education to a population at risk for unhealthy behaviors and unmet primary...
When Tight Blood Pressure Control is not for Everyone: A New Model for Performance Measurement in Hypertension
April 2010
Background: Many patients with hypertension have legitimate reasons to forego standard blood pressure targets yet are nonetheless included in performance measurement systems.
Beyond the Public Plan: Pathway to Control Costs & Transform the Delivery System
July 2009
The current focus of the health reform debate is rightfully beginning to shift to the need to transform the delivery system to contain the long run growth in costs.
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, Summer 2007 Issue
June 2007
This issue of CHP/PCOR's Quarterly Update covers news from the Spring 2007 quarter and includes articles about: the HIV/AIDS International Conference in St.
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, Spring 2007 Issue
April 2007
This issue of CHP/PCOR's Quarterly Update covers news from the Winter 2007 quarter and includes articles about: two Veterans Affairs-related items -- this year's recipient of the Under Secretary's...
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2006 issue
October 2006
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter, which covers news from the summer 2006 quarter, includes articles about: research by CHP/PCOR investigators that influenced the Centers for Disease...
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2006 issue
April 2006
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter, which covers news from the winter 2006 quarter, includes articles about: a comprehensive review of worldwide anthrax cases from 1900 to 2005,...
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2006 issue
January 2006
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter, which covers news from the fall 2005 quarter, includes articles about: a study concluding that the implantable cardioverter defibrillator -- one of...
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2005 issue
October 2005
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter, which covers news from the summer 2005 quarter, includes articles about: our new core faculty member Grant Miller, a Harvard-trained health economist...
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2005 issue
July 2005
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter covers developments from the spring 2005 quarter.
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2005 issue
April 2005
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter covers news and developments from the winter 2004 quarter.
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2004 issue
October 2004
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter covers news and developments from the summer 2004 quarter.
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2004
July 2004
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter covers news and developments from the spring 2004 quarter.
CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2004
January 2004
This issue of CHP/PCOR's quarterly newsletter covers news and developments at the centers for the fall quarter 2003.
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