In this modern world, sometimes it seems that everyone has “something,” and many of these conditions are relatively “new” and their incidence is increasing. Leading diagnoses from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), include ADHD, autism, depression, and anxiety. Conditions that have become more common in recent years that have no primary […]
Read more...More reasons to be concerned about the aggressive implementation of AI in medicine.
Read more...Raw milk won’t cut it. Even being rich won’t save you. The fast track to improving health in America is tackling inequality
Read more...ICE access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.
Read more...Part the First: Predatory or Not? Over the past six years the biomedical literature has accumulated 494,547 scientific “publications” with “COVID” (case insensitive) somewhere in the paper. A search using “AIDS HIV” as the query returns 204,559 papers over the past forty-five years. Something does not add up here. And that something is the nature […]
Read more...How large is the exposure of gender transition doctors who were quick to provide treatments to teens? A $2 million award says pretty big.
Read more...The features of American life, policy, and economics are stalling out and even shortening life expectancy and what we can do to change it.
Read more...Congressional inaction and rampaging heath premium increases mean even more Americans will go uninsured. Some suggestions about what to do.
Read more...One Trump rule rollback alone will kill an estimated 13,000 nursing home residents a year. Welcome to what passes for health care in the US.
Read more...Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the United States would have fixed our healthcare system so that job lock and other assorted problems would have vanished. Silly me. I have been eligible for Medicare […]
Read more...Trump’s latest afffordabilty headfake is a sketchy healthcare scheme.
Read more...Another health industry train wreck in the making is the rising difficulty of staffing so-called eldercare needs, particularly dementia care.
Read more...A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help…and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
Read more...Part the First: We Live in Pluto’s Republic. With apologies to the shade of Walt Disney, this was bound to happen eventually. From Corey Robin, who notes that at Texas A&M a philosophy professor must dispense with Plato in his course because the content will be in violation of this edict: “No system academic course […]
Read more...Why affordability crisis is a symptom of predatory neoliberal practices. Concentrated wealth looks set to keep this new norm in place.
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