On the Difficulty of Research in the Biomedical Sciences and Scientific Medicine
Why medical research is hard, and often path-dependent, which may not always be a good thing.
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Interview: Puncturing Misconceptions About Vaccine Hesitancy
“Vaccine hesitancy” less pervasive than some say
Read more...The Medicare Maze
Eileen Appelbaum takes a critical look at Medicare Advantage, exposing how it falls short of its cost-saving and quality-enhancing promises.
Read more...Will Human-to-Human Bird Flu (H5N1) Be the Long-Awaited “Disease X?”
A Bird Flu round-up, mostly from an institutional perspective.
Read more...ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees’ OK
Unauthorized enrollment or plan-switching is emerging as a serious challenge for the ACA, also known as Obamacare.
Read more...The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease – Are Non-Profits a Solution?
How to increase development of pharmaceuticals to treat tropical diseases, which afflict millions yet are neglected?
Read more...Democrats Furiously Finger-Wagging Over Billionaire Nicole Shanahan as RFK, Jr.’s Vice Presidential Pick
A short look at the Democrat-aligned-press breakdown over the RFK, Jr. choice of Silicon Valley’s Nichole Shanahan as his VP.
Read more...After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
By Brett Kelman, Correspondent, who joined KFF Health News after 15 years of beat reporting at three newspapers in the USA Today Network, and Samantha Liss, Midwest Correspondent, who is an award-winning journalist covering the business of health care for the past decade. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. In the small Appalachian city of […]
Read more...“The Censorship Trap”
Rajiv Sethi joins the pushback against censorship, using Google’s bogus attack on one of his posts on this site as a point of departure.
Read more...Private Equity Buying Up Accounting Practices. What Could Go Wrong? The Health Industry Gives Some Ideas
Private equity is setting out to hoover up accounting practices. The sorry experience in health care says there is cause for pause.
Read more...Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
Read more...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
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...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.
Read more...“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.
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