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- By Tory Wolff and Anja Schempf
Eighteen months ago, WMT opened its first Walmart Health clinic attached to a supercenter in Dallas, GA. The operation combined multiple services – primary/urgent care, dentistry, behavioral health, …
- By Marc Herant
Incremental progress in the fight to treat heart failure
After a decade or more of relative quiescence in the 2000s, a volley of new therapies have come to the forefront in the pages of the NEJM: sacu…
- By Marc Herant
Cardiovascular health – go big or go narrow?
A follow up on the development of evinacumab (Regeneron), an inhibitor of ANGPLT3 (see this opinionated take from 2017), confirming the safety and LDL red…
- By Marc Herant
Small but real progress in ALS:
Despite enormous public attention and significant effort, ALS remains a disease for which the development of new therapies has been challenging. Animal models showed po…
- By Tess Niewood and Max Holle
OptumCare’s acquisitions usually make headlines. But what happens when the reporters leave? How is clinical capacity managed? What role do micro-acquisitions, recruiting and retirements play in advan…
- By Max Holle
Summary:
We conducted a comparative analysis of the referral networks of orthopedic surgeons in King County (the area around Seattle, WA) and Miami-Dade County.
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Bigger systems are better…