The Public Shouldn’t Pay for Drugs Twice
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
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Centene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles Overbilling Allegations
Centene earns billions of dollars from governments and then uses its profits to back the campaigns of the officials who oversee those government contracts.
Read more...Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will
Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Read more...COVID-19 Rapid Tests Can Breed Confusion – Here’s How To Make Sense of the Results and What To Do, According to 3 Testing Experts
ome pointers on Covid test technique and use.
Read more...BMI: The Mismeasure of Weight and the Mistreatment of Obesity
Rigid definitions of obesity can both restrict care for some and produce unwarranted alarms for others.
Read more...What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science, Part 2: The Diet-Heart Hypothesis and Cholesterol
How medical research walked back the strong claims for the role of cholesterol in heart disease, which in turn supported the use of statins.
Read more...KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Read more...Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In
Private equity is buying up funeral homes, enticed by a large industry with reliable income that is still mainly populated by small businesses.
Read more...Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking.
Read more...Maskstravaganza: Mask Fit, Mask Manufacturing, Masks on the Movie Set
Masks as a mark of solidarity.
Read more...The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review
The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures
Private equity continued to buy up and crapify more medical specialist practices. The latest target is eye care, particularly surgeries.
Read more...The Scientific Response to COVID-19: What Does the Biomedical Literature Say?
A look at what passes for research on Covid, and how we got there.
Read more...Did the US Jump the Gun With the New Omicron-Targeted Vaccines?
On the queasiness over the dearth of testing for the new omicron vaccine “booster:.
Read more...Hospital Infection Control Departments Tenaciously Resist Airborne Transmission, Aided by CDC
Another deep dive into the hellish netherworld of CDC’s horrid documentation.
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