Science-Based Medicine: Sometimes “n = 1” Is Enough
An example of how, in science, pursuing the exceptions can prove more insight than following what seems to be a settled theory.
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As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack
Osteopaths are increasingly stepping into the primary care gap produced by MDs who increasingly go into lucrative specialities.
Read more...As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage
In what’s known as the Medicaid unwinding, states are combing through rolls and deciding who stays and who goes. People who are no longer eligible or don’t complete paperwork in time will be dropped.
Read more...NYC Sheriff Miranda Hawked ‘Gimmick’ COVID Protection Just Before Mayor Adams Hired Him
Anthony Miranda touted the ‘virus buster’ with a convicted racketeer and a Queens business leader embroiled in an Elon Musk-imposter spectacle
Read more...“Lessons for a Pandemic”
Lessons learned, and not, from a pandemic that isn’t over.
Read more...The Assisted Dying Debate Is Really About How We Treat the Living
A recent push to legalize assisted dying in France obscures more fundamental problems that plague end-of-life care.
Read more...Mood-Altering Mushroom Sales Bloom Despite Safety Concerns
upposedly psychoactive mushroooms are now widely availalble in the US, with no supervision of potency or purity.
Read more...Denials of Health Insurance Claims Are Rising — And Getting Weirder
Americans continue to suffer due to the Obama administration’s failure to take on health insurers.
Read more...The Expanding Role of Medicaid in US Health Care
Medicaid is more of a heavyweight than you might have realized.
Read more...Big Pharma Uses Fuzzy Math to Discredit Discount Drug Program
r 340B, a program granting cheaper medicines to nonprofit healthcare patients, drug industry innumeracy is only rivaled by its greed.
Read more...An mRNA Vaccine that Works
regarding pancreatic cancer, an mRNA vaccine has shown great promise
Read more...Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes
Misleading fact checking as a way to denigrate figures who regularly challenge the mainstream, here Bernie Sanders.
Read more...As More Hospitals Create Police Forces, Critics Warn of Pitfalls
More American exceptionalism: cops maintaining order in hosptials.
Read more...AI May Be on Its Way to Your Doctor’s Office, But It’s Not Ready to See Patients
The technology misses life-threatening conditions, lacks privacy protections, and tends to “hallucinate,” but adopting the it could make the healthcare industry billions.
Read more...PBMs, the Brokers Who Control Drug Prices, Finally Get Washington’s Attention
Why it isn’t easy to slip the leash of PBMs.
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