Medicare stacks the deck against surgeons; a Nazi-tainted anatomy lesson

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Medicare stacks the deck against surgeons. A Nazi-tainted anatomy lesson. The Dobbs decision and genetic counseling. Those are the topics of just a few of this week's First Opinion essays. You can read all of them here. If you or someone you know has an idea for an opinion/perspective essay, please contact us at first.opinion@statnews.com. Surgeons fold against Medicare's stacked deck By Andrew Wickline Adobe Unreasonable penalties that are part of a bundled payments program are forcing surgeons to stop caring for patients covered by Medicare. Read More Nazi-tainted Pernkopf's Atlas: A case for acknowledgement, not removal By Chad Childers Adobe Some drawings in Pernkopf's atlas of anatomy were based on the bodies of people executed by the Nazis. Should the atlas be scrapped? Read More Dobbs decision is a huge setback for genetic counseling and the people who need it By Sonia M. Suter and Laura Hercher Adobe In the post-Dobbs era, genetic counseling in some states will be fraught with legal and privacy issues and even be off limits. Read More Sponsor content by STAT Reports Ranking biotech’s top venture capital firms: the 2022 edition Which venture capital firms get the best returns? Our latest STAT Report is an update of our most popular report to date, this time with 2021 data. In it, STAT's Kate Sheridan provides a definitively ranked list of more than a dozen of the biggest names in biotech investment, including Third Rock Ventures, OrbiMed, ARCH Venture Partners, and even Flagship Pioneering. Learn more. Polio in New York: A call to action for U.S. pediatricians and public health to work together By Sallie Permar and Jay K. Varma Angie Wan/AP A case of polio in New York should galvanize all U.S. pediatricians and public health experts fight vaccine hesitancy. Read More Monkeypox public health response is lagging for LGBTQ+ community By David Stein KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images The LGBTQ+ community wants to do its part to stop the spread of monkeypox. But it needs much more support from public health agencies. Read More The FDA is at a crossroads for reducing tobacco-related disease and death By Michael B. Farber and Anand Shah Jeff Chiu/AP The Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. EPA could limit the FDA's efforts to regulate tobacco and e-cigarettes. Read More The Biden-Harris administration needs to end fake abortion clinics By Susannah Baruch BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Fake abortion clinics, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, divert, delay, and deceive people seeking abortion care. Read More To improve children's health in low-income countries, put pediatric surgery on par with preventing malaria or HIV By Shiza Abbasi and Carrie B. Dolan David Silverman/Getty Images In low-income countries, where pediatric surgery is often nonexistent, investing in it saves and extends life and prevents disability. Read More STAT+: How machine learning and automation can solve biomanufacturing scale-up challenges By Preston Toole Adobe New biomanufacturing approaches are needed to help solve biotechnology's age-old commercial hurdle: how to scale up manufacturing. Read More Sunday, August 28, 2022       1 Exchange Pl, Suite 201, Boston, MA 02109 ©2022, All Rights Reserved. I no longer wish to receive STAT emails Update Email Preferences | Contact Us | View In Browser