‘We’re Not Doing That’: Why a Black Couple Wouldn’t Crowdfund to Pay Off Medical Debts
Why black patients burdened by medical debt are reluctant to solicit for funds.
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Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them
Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.
Read more...ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”
Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care
Read more...Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves
Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.
Read more...Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
Read more...Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?
Read more...Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent
Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.
Read more...Fast Food Suppliers Contribute to Increases in BMI and Decreases in IQ
Using Norwegian registry data, this column documents that the increased supply of fast food restaurants could be responsible for as much as 35% of the increase in BMI and 27% of the decline in cognitive ability observed across cohorts born during the 1980s.
Read more...Annual Numbers of Excess Deaths in the US Relative to Other Developed Countries Are Growing at an Alarming Rate
America continues to be exceptional, here in our level of excess deaths.
Read more...As Wildfire Smoke Clears, Scientists Warn Air Quality Impacts Aren’t Over
As bad air becomes a new normal, advanced economies grapple with impact of sooty wildfire smoke on top of existing pollutants.
Read more...The War on Terror’s Lingering Pain
The war on terror’s high costs are buried in the US.
Read more...Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding
More pillaging of America, here in hospitals in flyover, where it won’t be noticed much before those practices start moving to the core.
Read more...Science-Based Medicine: Sometimes “n = 1” Is Enough
An example of how, in science, pursuing the exceptions can prove more insight than following what seems to be a settled theory.
Read more...As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack
Osteopaths are increasingly stepping into the primary care gap produced by MDs who increasingly go into lucrative specialities.
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