Health Populi

Getting access to physicians’ opinions is Big Business. Now, institutional investors will have access to the brains of doctors through a relationship between Goldman Sachs and Epocrates, the point-of-care health information company. Why is this so important? Because the health sector in the U.S. is now valued at over $2 trillion, according to a new [...]

However you might “Brangelina” up the name — call it Zagthem or Angat — Zagat has met up with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield to create a consumer-oriented guide to physicians. The tool is now live and free to access for members of the Lumenos plan in Cincinnati and Dayton, as well as in [...]

Break out the Bordeaux and eat those escargots: France ranks first in preventing deaths, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund. Compared to 19 industrialized countries, the US ranks dead (pardon the pun) last. The top three nations who do best at preventing death are France, Japan and Australia. The study in Health [...]

Health care and security top money when it comes to American workers’ priorities, according to a new survey from The Center for State and Local Government Excellence. The report, Security: what Americans want from a job, examines 15 job characteristics: among them, 84% of Americans rate “the health insurance plan” as the #1 aspect of [...]

Pharmaceutical companies spend twice as much money on marketing as they do on research and development, according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine, an online peer-reviewed journal. According to the study, U.S. drug companies spent $57.5 billion on marketing versus $31.5 billion on R&D, in 2004.The chart on the right details the researchers’ [...]