Deborah Cohen

1 month ago | jewishbookcouncil.org | Deborah Cohen

Review By – June 2, 2025 Samuel, a Jewish apprentice to the sixteenth-century Dutch painter Rembrandt, is eager to prove himself by taking on tasks more significant than simply cleaning brushes. Other apprentices progress more quickly because they can spend full days in the studio; Samuel spends half of each day in yeshiva learning holy Jewish texts.

1 month ago | academyhealth.org | Deborah Cohen

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has long played an instrumental role in supporting the nation’s health care priorities. For decades, AHRQ has been making innovative investments in large-scale dissemination and implementation to improve health care systems.

Dec 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Deborah Cohen

It is among the most delicate and controversial challenges in modern medicine - how to determine whether the benefits of puberty blockers (or drugs that delay puberty) outweigh the potential harms. This question came to the fore in June 2023 when NHS England proposed that in the future, these drugs would only be prescribed to children questioning their gender as part of clinical research.

Sep 5, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Kevin Grumbach |Deborah Cohen |Yalda Jabbarpour

If you thought for-profit conglomerates were going to save primary care, maybe it is time to think again. National primary care scorecards document the increasingly imperiled state of primary care in the US, the result of decades of underinvestment. Calls for bold policy reforms to increase primary care payment and investment in practice infrastructure have failed to reverse the decline.

Jan 12, 2024 | bmj.com | Deborah Cohen |Margaret McCartney

Deborah Cohen, freelance journalist1, Margaret McCartney, GP21London2GlasgowThe government’s policy to fast track “innovative” drugs into the NHS to showcase the UK as a great place for industry has been described as “a pretty spectacular failure,” because of the way a test case using the cholesterol lowering drug inclisiran was received.