http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from CHP/PCORen-usPublic domainhttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/60http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2166Stanford Health Policy has received five years of renewed support for its Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. The National Institute on Aging funding will help expand the center's initiative to inform the academic community about demography and economic research in the area of health and aging.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2166?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2157Stanford Health Policy Director Alan Garber, core faculty Victor Fuchs and associate faculty Kenneth Arrow joined two dozen health economists in signing a letter to President Barack Obama urging cost controlling measures be included in health care legislation. The four key measures they outlined in their three-page memo are (1) deficit neutrality; (2) an excise tax on high-cost insurance plans; (3) an independent Medicare commission; and (4) delivery system reforms.]]>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2157?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2152Core faculty Douglas Owens, associate faculty Margaret Brandeau and associate faculty Eran Bendavid received a $1 million challenge grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project that will compare antiretroviral regimen treatments for HIV, and evaluate the impact of these drugs on patients with cardiovascular problems. The award -- presented to three research projects out of the thousands that applied -- will allow the creation of two or three new research positions for the two-year funded project.]]>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2152?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2153Director Alan Garber has been awarded the Society for Medical Decision Making's career achievement award. Presented at the SMDM's annual conference last week, the award recognizes senior investigators who have made significant contributions to the field of medical decision making.]]>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2153?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2149Stanford Health Policy affiliate Dena Bravata's research on the health benefits of pedometer use is featured in the Washington Post. The article, "The Misfits: A look at pedometers' impact on weight loss," quotes Bravata at length and references Stanford's successful pedometer program.]]>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2149?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2146In economist columnist David Leonhardt's New York Times magazine featured article "Making Health Care Better," Stanford Health Policy director Alan Garber comments on patient care not being as good as it should be.]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2146?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2110Entitlement programs, especially Medicare, pose the single gravest threat to our long-term financial future, Stanford Health Policy Director Alan Garber notes, with Medicare alone on a trajectory to consume 10 percent of the nation's output. Garber, a physician, economist, and professor of medicine, explores major cost savings proposals and the key features of the health reform plans now being debated in the U.S. Congress.]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2110?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2104Stanford Health Policy director Alan Garber offers his take on comparative effectiveness research in the Economist's online debate forum. Garber writes that our current system of "ignoring value ... has failed to limit expenditures or to deliver superior health outcomes." Part of the series "Economists Debates," Garber is the featured guest in the most recent online version of Oxford style of debating.]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2104?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2101In a city the size of New York, starting a vaccination campaign a few weeks earlier could save almost 600 lives and over $150 million, according to a study by scientists at the Stanford Health Policy and Stanford University School of Medicine. The study, to be published online Oct. 6 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, modeled a pandemic in a hypothetical urban area with a population and demographic characteristics mirroring New York City's.]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2101?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2050Contrary to a belief widely held by obstetricians, inducing labor need not increase a woman's risk for cesarean section delivery in childbirth, scientists at Stanford Health Policy and the University of California, San Francisco have found.]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2050?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2029The first class of Global Health Corps fellows came to Stanford in July for an intensive orientation program. Stanford Health Policy hosted the the two-week training session, which prepared the 21 fellows for a year of global health field work in in Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Newark, NJ, and Boston, MA.]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2029?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2037Two common anti-influenza drugs -- Relenza and Tamiflu -- appear equally effective at preventing common flu symptoms when given before infection, say Stanford Health Policy researchers. However, data is lacking on the effectiveness and safety of the two drugs in vulnerable groups such as the very young and people with compromised immune systems.]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2037?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2012Stanford School of Medicine student Jacqueline Baras Shreibati took home two of health service research's highest honors last month at a conference in Chicago. Shreibati, who also received a health service research masters degree from Stanford, won the AcademyHealth's Student Poster Award. Her poster, "MRI Availability and Low Back Pain Care for Medicare Patients," was also named one of the four best abstracts submitted by students at the AcademyHealth's annual meeting, and her work was featured in a special panel of the top student projects.]]>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2012?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2009As a member of the Institute of Medicine committee charged with prioritizing the use of $1.1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds for comparative effectiveness research, Stanford Health Policy director Alan Garber co-authored the report recommending the 100 health topics that should get priority attention and funding.]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2009?http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1996Stanford Health Policy core faculty member Victor Fuchs draws upon his recent New England Journal of Medicine commentary to explain why the proposed health reform legislation advancing a government-sponsored insurance system doesn't address the fundamental problems in the health care system.]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/1996?