The cost-effective investments in healthcare infrastructure disproportionately benefited historically marginalised groups, had long-run benefits, and complemented, rather than substituted, medical innovation.
Read more...How a Biden administration initiative to improve nursing homes’ staffing is floundering due to lax enforcement.
Read more...Many hospitals will have their operations interrupted and/or degraded by climate change. What to do?
Read more...Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
Read more...Jonathan Haidt contends that changes in childrearing practices have produced adults who on average are more anxious and fragile
Read more...The US Supreme Court decides it is not cruel to make it illegal for homeless people to sleep.
Read more...A new study finds that revenue-funded healthcare is cost-effective, efficient, and fair, while all health insurance has avoidable excess cost
Read more...Hospitals in the US and UK have been hit hard by cyber attacks, leaving practitioners struggling to offer care.
Read more...Some updates on long Covid make for an indictment of US public health. Not that that should come as a surprise.
Read more...The Biden plan to squeeze the Medicare drug pricing balloon has merely led it to bulge out in a different place.
Read more...In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
Read more...Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Read more...New York City’s Mount Sinai is trying to shutter acquired Beth Israel and its own respected eye and ear facility despite state opposition
Read more...California joins the list of states trying to choke health industry profiteering via spending limits. Can it work?
Read more...Energy and climate sustainability are hopium. However, it may be possible to preserve a semblance of our techno-driven civilization.
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