Death of an Elder Raises Uncomfortable Questions About Adequacy of Care
Some anecdotes on not-great care for the aged.
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Russia’s General Patience and the Pause That Refreshes
Taking stock of the damage done by Russia’s continuing missile attacks and what that means for the war in Ukraine.
Read more...RNA-Based Therapeutics and the Future of Clinical Medicine: A Promising Part of the Emerging Story
An overview of RNA-based therapeutics, which are not to be confused with mRNA vaccines.
Read more...Pharmaceutical Drugs at Cost + 15%? It’s Here Now
A way out of price gouging on drugs?
Read more...Audits — Hidden Until Now — Reveal Millions in Medicare Advantage Overcharges
Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average.
Read more...Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties
Another account of the extent of the private equity health care grifting, as well as some avenues to check these abuses.
Read more...Knowledge Overconfidence: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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