AI Is Coming For Your Doctor
Medical systems using Epic are planning to turn most patient care decisions over to AI.
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Who’s Profiting off of the Criminalization of Homelessness?
Private equity, for one, which cashes in at nearly every stage of the American homelessness crisis.
Read more...Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Amounts of Lead, New Report Says – A Pharmacologist Explains the Data
As whey and protein powders have moved from the bodybuilder/fitness community to the mainstream, a new study raises alarms about lead levels.
Read more...Book Review: The Mixed Blessing of Antibiotics
“Dangerous Miracle,” by Liam Shaw, is a sweeping account of the rise and precarious future of a live-saving antibiotics.
Read more...Coffee Break: Politics and Science and Politics, a Coral Catastrophe, Mamdani, and the New ICE Age
Part the First: Politics and Science. It will be s surprise to no one that autism is somewhere nearby: Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work. The inquiry came in August and struck scientists at the Food and Drug Administration as highly unusual. The leader of the center that regulates […]
Read more...Drug Price Wars: What Can Really Tame Big Pharma?
What’s really driving Big Pharma’s price gouging — and why have Federal efforts to rein it in made so little progress?
Read more...Coffee Break: Genes and Disease, Workslop Passing for Science, Nobel News, a Labor Party in the US, and Our Sick Politics
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Read more...RFK, Jr. Push to Falsely Treat Autism as Produced by Vaccines Would Break Vaccine Injury Scheme, Potentially Risking All US Vaccines
RFK, Jr. really does act like he is out to stop vaccines in their entiretly in the US. That’s the most logical explanation for his latest push
Read more...Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections
“If you can’t maintain your health, how are you going to work to pay back a debt? And if you fundamentally can’t pay the bill, wage garnishment isn’t going to help you do that. It’s going to put you in more financial distress.”
Read more...Coffee Break: Vaccines Continued, Ancient Art, Renewables, Ignis Fatuus Explained, Good Sleep, and Jane Goodall
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Read more...Coffee Break: Autism, Universities, Gene Therapy for HD That Works, More Anti-Vax Nonsense, and Making America Greater, or Not.
This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 139 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, PayPal. Clover, or Wise. Read about why we’re doing this […]
Read more...Trump Again Applies His Tariff Wrecking Ball to US Citizens and Businesses with 100% Levy on Imported Patented Drugs, 25% on Imported Trucks, 30% to 50% on Furnishings
Trump is again deploying his tariff weapon, mainly at hapless American patients and consumers….and Indian drugmakers.
Read more...AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments
The Trump Administration plans to launch a new war against citizens, here via a pilot scheme to use AI to cut Medicare services.
Read more...Politics, Government, and Science During Pandemic Times
When asked in early 2000 how long I thought COVID-19 would last, I answered three years. Alas, it has now been nearly six years since a frightening respiratory disease was first noticed in Hubei Province centered in Wuhan. Retrospective analyses indicate the virus was already circulating in other parts of the world. It soon became […]
Read more...US Medical Care Set to Fracture Over MAHA as States and Physicians Groups Break With Administration Recommendations, Plan to Fund Own Research
How an informational civil war is starting in the wake of MAHA.
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