[NYT] When Juliet Jacobs found out she had lung cancer, she was terrified, but realized that her hope lay in getting the best treatment medicine could offer. So she got a second opinion, then a third. In February of 2010, she ended up at Duke University, where she entered a research study whose promise seemed [...]

[Post-Gazette] The boards that lead Highmark Inc. and West Penn Allegheny Health System have unanimously approved a “capital partnership” in which the area’s dominant health insurer will invest up to $475 million into the region’s second largest health system, including an up-front $50 million payment that will rescue Bloomfield’s West Penn Hospital from what would [...]

[NYT]  Several years ago, I learned that a physician in a town not too far from where I was practicing had committed suicide. Neither I nor my hospital colleagues knew him, but according to the story we heard, he was the father of young children, was respected by doctors and patients alike and had struggled [...]