WSJ.com: Health Blog
WSJ's blog on health and the business of health.
Visit WSJ.com: Health Blog
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 8 hours ago
One thing health-care practitioners know about treating the elderly is that they don t know enough about treating the elderly.The point is underscor...
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 11 hours ago
We mentioned yesterday that the feds are proposing their annual tweaks to the way Medicare pays doctors. But we were so busy geeking out on a proposed...
Tags: geriatrics
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 11 hours ago
Multaq, Sanofi-Aventis s treatment for heart-rhythm disorders, has made a comeback. Rejected by the FDA in 2006 because of safety concerns, the agen...
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 13 hours ago
Health-care giant J&J is making a $1 billion bet for a stake in Irish drug maker Elan and will invest an additional $500 million in Elan s closely w...
Tags: alzheimers
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 15 hours ago
Can cost-effective health-care measures that have worked in poorer countries be applied to in the U.S.? That s the question the WSJ asks amid the de...
Tags: aids
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 day ago
The agency that runs Medicare today suggested making an obscure accounting change that could make it easier for Congress to change how Medicare pays d...
Tags: cancer
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 day ago
The FDA announcement today that smoking-cessation drug Chantix should require a boxed warning about the risk of serious mental-health symptoms isn t...
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 day ago
The H1N1 flu (or, if you prefer, swine flu) continues to rattle around the globe. Here s an update:Buenos Aires has declared a health emergency. The...
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 day ago
Swimming against the corporate tide, Wal-Mart yesterday sent an open letter to President Obama supporting a federal mandate that would require most em...
Tags: swimming
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 day ago
NyQuil got a pass from that FDA advisory committee that met this week to discuss acetaminophen, the generic painkiller in all kinds of over-the-counte...
Tags: liver
Subscribe to WSJ.com: Health Blog