For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar. Michael Chernew, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy; Alan Garber, provost of Harvard University and Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy; and Barbara McNeil, the head of the Department of Health Care Policy and Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy, are quoted.

A recent study found frail patients admitted to teaching hospitals with two common types of heart problems were more likely to survive on days when national cardiology conferences were going on. Anupam Jena, assistant professor of health care policy, led the research. 

A new year is fast approaching and, according to Marist Poll, losing weight is the most popular New Year's resolution for 2015. In an effort to spur results, some turn to weight loss supplements, supplements that are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and can even be dangerous.Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, is mentioned.