New York Times Shows How McKinsey “Guided” Major Opioid Players, Causing Even More Deaths
More on how McKinsey has gotten away with murder.
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Damage from Air Pollutants You Won’t Hear About from Your Doctor
A useful reminder that the health costs of bad air are more extensive than most people realize. But what to do?
Read more...How Do Painkillers Actually Kill Pain? From Ibuprofen to Fentanyl, It’s About Meeting the Pain Where It’s At
A layperson’s overview of pain channels and how painkillers interefere with them.
Read more...How Energy-Efficiency Upgrades Can Improve Your Health
An energy upgrade to your house will often produce other bennies!
Read more...Growing Revolt Among Medical Practitioners Against Vaccinating Toddlers for Covid
The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Endanger Employees During Extended Covid Surge Over Union Objections; Falsely Said It Was Complying With California Requirements; Appears To Be Understating Case Count
CalPERS is having employees service the egos of managers by coming to the office rather than protecting them from Covid by teleworking.
Read more...What Might the US Be Like Post-Roe v Wade? Look at Present-Day Nigeria
Yves here. This using Nigeria as a forecast for the US is hyperbolic, since even if Roe v. Wade is overruled or narrowed, it then becomes a states-rights matter, and quite a few states will allow for abortions and many are likely to strengthen their laws. Moreover, laws by states to criminalize abortions and facilitating […]
Read more...Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either
More cheery Omicron takes.
Read more...Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals
Private equity’s emphasis on profit is “not necessarily great for the patient.”
Read more...100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt
An in-depth study reveals the scope and severity of medical debt in the US is much worse than previously thought.
Read more...Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.
How race factors into medical assessments, often not properly.
Read more...Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this WTO ministerial than is generally known.
Read more...The Arm-Wrestle Over Opioids in the Operating Room
Some patients are opting out of opioids for operations. These anesthesiologists insist that’s a bad idea. But are they too dogmatic?
Read more...California Wants to Slash Insulin Prices by Becoming a Drugmaker. Can it Succeed?
The fact that California is having to consider making insulin to get around price grifing show the depth of disease in our health care system.
Read more...CalPERS Staff in Fury Over Covid Negligence, Regulation-Breaking Risking Staff, Seniors, and Day-Care Children; CalPERS Lies About Cases and Lack of Compliance
CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.
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