Health Care

Health Innovators fellows start their two years at the Institute with experience, ambition, and hopes—then they change the face of health care.

Many working to make quality health care accessible for all Americans were saddened Sunday to learn of Bernard J. Tyson’s passing. As chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Tyson championed affordable and accessible treatment along with preventive care.

Eric Topol, a prominent cardiologist, says there has been a steady degradation of the human side of health care – ever since medicine became big business.

The PHRASES initiative is researching how housing, education, health-systems, and business leaders think about public health in their work.

Report by cross-disciplinary team of global experts highlights urgent need for a vaccine that can protect the world against influenza; provides bold, actionable recommendations.

The Sabin-Aspen Vaccine Science & Policy Group convened in 2018 to explore challenges and opportunities to develop a universal influenza vaccine. The group’s recommendations on how to overcome the scientific, financial and organizational barriers to developing a vaccine are synthesized in this report published in July 2019.

An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mindset.

Can doctors teach people how to parent?

A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.