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...Masks as a mark of solidarity.
Read more...The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Private equity continued to buy up and crapify more medical specialist practices. The latest target is eye care, particularly surgeries.
Read more...A look at what passes for research on Covid, and how we got there.
Read more...On the queasiness over the dearth of testing for the new omicron vaccine “booster:.
Read more...Another deep dive into the hellish netherworld of CDC’s horrid documentation.
Read more...If you are a CalPERS retiree, please be sure to vote in the board election now underway. You deserve to be properly represented.
Read more...Liz Truss looks set to shaft ordinary Britons when the UK is already reeling from a cost of living crisis.
Read more...How foundational work on Alzheimers’s disease was based on fradulent, um, manipulated data, yet not much rethinking has been done.
Read more...Yves here. This is the first time I’ve come across the People’s CDC, and I like the cut of their jib. They have a series of demands for Covid action. And while continued “access” to vaccines is on the list, it’s their dead last action item, with N95 masks and ventilation and testing and improved […]
Read more...The big heat is set to become more pervasive. A look at projections on where and how bad how soon.
Read more...More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.
Read more...John here. This article provides an interesting view of the economics of rural hospitals, which are closing at an alarming rate. In particular, it highlights how counties often negotiate from desperately weak positions, even when they have invested in the infrastructure. Another recent KHN article reported on the start-up Noble Health, which took over two […]
Read more...By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher Cyber attacks targeting private sector providers for essential public services result in additional waste of public resources. When public health care fails in cyber security, politicians are quick to blame staff on the ground. But when private companies become the weak link, state resources are spent […]
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