‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic Crashes Ashore, Propelled by Fentanyl and Meth
Opioid abuse marches on relentlessly, with little attention to the broader social stresses that make the US such an outlier on this front.
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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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...What If We Treated People Who Use Drugs as Full Human Beings?
Does punishing people for substance use worsen the pain and isolation that make drugs so appealing?
Read more...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.
Read more...CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
Read more...Cancer in the Corn Belt Sparks Actions to Fight Farm Fertilizer Nitrate Contamination
Long-standing concerns about fertilizer runoff leading to toxic nitrates in water supplies look to be getting more traction.
Read more...The FTC Is Attacking Drugmakers’ ‘Patent Thickets’
The FTC is scoring some early wins in challenging drug company overreach via using patents on delivery methods to extend drug patent life.
Read more...With Trump Front of Mind, New Hampshire Voters Cite Abortion and Obamacare as Concerns
Quelle surprise! Voters are concerned about matters that affect them personally, like abortion access and health care costs.
Read more...In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital
By Mitchell Black and Noam N. Levey. Cross posted from KFF Health News. It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to dispense with the tall stack of debt collection lawsuits that McAlester Regional Medical Center recently brought to small-claims court in this Oklahoma farm community. Hackler, a lawyer who sues patients on […]
Read more...Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis
Why women and blacks are more at risk of misdiagnosis than white men. But what to do?
Read more...When Science Meets Power: A Review
A look at what Covid-19 revealed was wrong about science (or more accurately, “the science”, and what might be done.
Read more...The Brave New World of Employment Under AI……What About Countervailing Forces?
Why AI still has some growth pains coming.
Read more...Regulatory Fight Over Ultraprocessed Foods Starting in the US
There’s controversy over how good a proxy the degree of food processing is for the nutritional value of food. Nevertheless, there is also substantial evidence that the category of ultraprocessed, which includes some arguably not-bad offerings like whole grain bread,1 contribute in a big way to bad health outcomes. The US, with its large food […]
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