Category Archives: Health care

Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!

Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation

Ultra-Processed People in an Ultra-Processed World

The scientific, health, and political debate over the true cost of ultra–processed has just gone mainstream….which is late.

“Explosive Growth” in Petrochemical Production Linked to Increases in Cancers and Other Diseases in New Report

Evidence from the New England Journal of Medicine, that petrochemical output, particularly plastics, may be behind the rise in many ailments.

Ralph Nader: Real Gaza Death Toll at Least 200,000

Ralph Nader calls out the certain extreme undercount of death in Gaza and why that is convenient for Israel, the US, and Gaza.

How Should the Government Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices? A Guide for the Perplexed

How some key points on negotiating Medicare drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act were oddly left open, arguably much too open.

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.