Category Archives: Health care

Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration

Nurses, or more accurately, nurse staffing levels demonstrate a central bad incentive in American medicine.

‘Dark Waters’ Tells the Origin Story of a Public Health Nightmare. We’re Still Living It.

On a docu-drama that recounts the first major suit against toxic “forever chemicals” and what’s being done about them now.

Opening of Formerly Secret FDA Database Exposes Medical Device Failures, Spurring Lawsuits

The FDA kept a database of medical device malfunctions secret for decades.

Leaked US Trade Talks Show How Trump Is Dictating Johnson’s Approach to a Hard Brexit

Far from Brexit letting the UK takw back control, it has entered into a relationship where it holds none of the cards.

Federal Prosecutors Initiate Criminal Probe of Six Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have initiated an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against at least six opiods companies.

New Evidence on The Broad Reach of Pharmaceutical Payments

Our results add to a growing body of evidence linking pharmaceutical payments to changes in prescribing behaviour

Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate

A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.

US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet

Another medical data horrorshow.

2:00PM Water Cooler Special: Warren’s #MedicareForAll Transition Plan Is Set Up to Fail

Warren’s transition plan, like her pay-for plan, introduces unmotivated dependencies that make #MedicareForAll unlikely to pass, charitably from poor political judgment, less charitably because she doesn’t want the bill to pass.

HHS Investigates Google-Ascension Secret Medical Records Project for Millions of Patients; Concrete Evidence of HIPAA Violations

Google and Ascension look to have shot their medical data project in the head with their flagrant disregard for patient privacy laws.

Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors

Google now wants to play doctor.