Ralph Nader: Real Gaza Death Toll at Least 200,000
Ralph Nader calls out the certain extreme undercount of death in Gaza and why that is convenient for Israel, the US, and Gaza.
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How Should the Government Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices? A Guide for the Perplexed
How some key points on negotiating Medicare drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act were oddly left open, arguably much too open.
Read more...Restaurants: Canaries in the Coal Mine of the Covid Labor Reset?
Independent restaurants are in a world of hurt due to labor cost increases. Yet oddly no one seems willing to cite Long Covid as a contributor.
Read more...IM Doc Reports on Covid Not Waning, Long Covid Effects as Lambert Lambastes Latest CDC Guidance as “Crime Against Humanity”
Lambert describes how the CDC destructively washes its hands of Covid as IM Doc chronicles how it is relentlessly continuing to harm patients.
Read more...Despite Inspector General Demand, EPA Refuses to Re-Do Review of Seresto Flea and Tick Collar Implicated in Thousands of Pet Deaths
The FDA is refusing to redo a review that gave a free pass to Seresto tick collars, implicated in thousands of pet deaths
Read more...Mounting Research Shows That COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain, Including Significant Drops in IQ Score
Even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.
Read more...Our Loss of Science in the 21st Century and How to Get It Back
KLG looks at how science has lost stature, and how that affects scientists and the current practice of science.
Read more...In California, Faceoff Between Major Insurer and Health System Shows Hazards of Consolidation
Patients are increasingly caught in the crossfire of contract disputes between health insurers.
Read more...Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?
Pandemic-era have often pitted evidence-based medicine proponents against supporters of more traditional analytical methods.
Read more...BMJ Decries Necrocide in Gaza as UN Describes “Shocking, Desperate Conditions”; Johns Hopkins Estimates Escalation Would Produce 85,000 More Deaths in 6 Months
The world fiddles while Gaza bleeds.
Read more...Florida Defies CDC in Measles Outbreak, Telling Parents It’s Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School
The US continues to embrace rolling back progress as Florida greenlights measles by letting infected kids go to school.
Read more...‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic Crashes Ashore, Propelled by Fentanyl and Meth
Opioid abuse marches on relentlessly, with little attention to the broader social stresses that make the US such an outlier on this front.
Read more...IM Doc Warns of Coming Medical Dystopia in the US via Pervasive Recording of Visits, AI Test Ordering and Upselling
The coming horror of the loss of privacy and degradation of service via the brave new world of AI administered medicine.
Read more...A Look at Private Equity’s Medicare Advantage Grifting
More on why Medicare Advantage is a criminogenic environment. And private equity has gotten in on the action.
Read more...GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility
Increased reliance on GoFundMe for big medical bills (for those that can even raise money) confirms that the US medical system is predatory.
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