Category Archives: Health care

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?

Pandemic-era have often pitted evidence-based medicine proponents against supporters of more traditional analytical methods.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Possibility of Wildlife-to-Human Crossover Heightens Concern About Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease, which is contagious and always fatal, is spreading rapidly in deer, and the barrier to a spillover into humans is less formidable than previously believed.