A new study from Melissa McPheeters, PhD, MPH, research professor of health policy, finds that “prescribing (opioids) is common in Tennessee before an overdose, does not decrease appreciably afterward, and MAT may be underutilized as increases in buprenorphine were not observed after overdose events.”

  Study Finds Safety-Net Hospitals Make More Money on Prescription Drugs for Seniors

What doctors are not taught and do not often consider when they're in training is something very familiar but only now rising in priority. What is it? The value — both financial and in quality of care — of the care they deliver to patients. More than 40 attendees spent two days learning just what value-based care is all about during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.

 

  Death and taxes are the two things we've been told are certain, but so too is flu season, according to Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and health policy and infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

One issue consistently at the top of issues important to voters heading into the 2020 general election is health care. 

By now, many of us have encountered headlines about poor oversight, abuse or profiteering at nursing homes across the country. 

A new study published in the journal Nature Microbiology finds that researchers in California may have used a unique tactic to discover what might become a cure for the common cold. 

Three policy proposals under consideration would produce different results, according to a new perspective published by Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, associate professor of Health Policy and Ingram associate professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center