Democrats Furiously Finger-Wagging Over Billionaire Nicole Shanahan as RFK, Jr.’s Vice Presidential Pick
A short look at the Democrat-aligned-press breakdown over the RFK, Jr. choice of Silicon Valley’s Nichole Shanahan as his VP.
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After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
By Brett Kelman, Correspondent, who joined KFF Health News after 15 years of beat reporting at three newspapers in the USA Today Network, and Samantha Liss, Midwest Correspondent, who is an award-winning journalist covering the business of health care for the past decade. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. In the small Appalachian city of […]
Read more...“The Censorship Trap”
Rajiv Sethi joins the pushback against censorship, using Google’s bogus attack on one of his posts on this site as a point of departure.
Read more...Private Equity Buying Up Accounting Practices. What Could Go Wrong? The Health Industry Gives Some Ideas
Private equity is setting out to hoover up accounting practices. The sorry experience in health care says there is cause for pause.
Read more...Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
Read more...Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...Ultra-Processed People in an Ultra-Processed World
The scientific, health, and political debate over the true cost of ultra–processed has just gone mainstream….which is late.
Read more...“Explosive Growth” in Petrochemical Production Linked to Increases in Cancers and Other Diseases in New Report
Evidence from the New England Journal of Medicine, that petrochemical output, particularly plastics, may be behind the rise in many ailments.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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