Excluding Insulin From Drug Price Reform a ‘Slap in the Face,’ Advocates Say
Schumer should reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats reconciliation bill
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Biden’s FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers and Is Poised to Thwart More Consolidation Attempts
The Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.
Read more...New Biden BA.5 “Plan” Openly Abandons Metrics for Preventing Infection, Butchers Mask and Ventilation Policy
BA.5 plan: Let ‘er rip!
Read more...Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry
The triumph of biological psychiatry has everything to do with the close ties between Big Pharma and academic psychiatry and little to do with compelling scientific evidence.
Read more...‘Good. Now Declare It,’ Says Pressley as Biden Mulls Health Emergency for Abortion Rights
Would declaring a public health emergency work as a Biden Administration abortion Hail Mary pass?
Read more...Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.
Read more...NYC Doctors, Doulas, Activists Prep for a Massive Influx of Abortion Seekers
At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more
Read more...Readers to the Rescue: Help With Betty-Jo’s Post-Cancer Liver Treatments So She Doesn’t Have to Live in Her Car
Betty-Jo, who was my deceased mother’s best aide, has been run over by our predatory, for-profit medical system. Please help!
Read more...How to Get Rid of Medical Debt — Or Avoid It in the First Place
A primer on how to deal with an American affliction, medical debt.
Read more...Privacy in the Wake of Dobbs: How Safe Are Your Medical Records and Digital Data If Prosecutors or Bounty Hunters from No-Choice States Come Knocking?
To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...New York Times Shows How McKinsey “Guided” Major Opioid Players, Causing Even More Deaths
More on how McKinsey has gotten away with murder.
Read more...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.
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