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Head of New U.S. Corporate Health Plan Cites Surgery as Biggest CostDr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who was named this week to head the company being formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to trim employee healthcare costs, on Thursday cited surgery as the single biggest U.S. healthcare cost and said there are ways to both cut costs and improve patient care.
Reuters Health Information, June 22, 2018
First Female Dean 'a Sea of Change' at USC's Scandal-Plagued Medical SchoolLaura Mosqueda, a geriatrician, wants to train new doctors to better care for elderly people as the country’s population ages. She will face a big challenge as USC reels from drug and sexual misconduct scandals that have enraged students and landed the university in legal hot water.
Former Puma Biotech Exec Gets U.S. Prison Term for Insider TradingA former Puma Biotechnology Inc executive was sentenced on Wednesday to 2-1/4 years in prison for trading on inside information ahead of announcements by the biopharmaceutical company about a breast cancer drug it was developing.
