Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Read more...Category Archives: Health care
Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices
Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.
Read more...The Icepick Surgeon: Tales of Scientists Gone Rogue (or Worse)
Author Sam Kean follows the long trail of amoral scientists, and their justifications.
Read more...Financial Times: “Things Could Fall Apart for Biden”
Even Biden loyalists are getting nervous.
Read more...A Round-Up of Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Research
Nasal sprays for vaccination, treatment, and prophylaxis (the last with two over-the-counter products not delivering drugs).
Read more...The Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord
More worries about Delta.
Read more...DoJ Bankruptcy Trustee Lambastes Provisions to Protect Sacklers in Purdue Bankruptcy Exit Plan as “Illegal”
Feds weigh in on Purdue bankruptcy plan, raising possibility that Sacklers won’t get off more or less scot-free for their role in the opioids crisis.
Read more...What’s in Wildfire Smoke? A Toxicologist Explains the Health Risks
An environmental toxicologist outlines steps to take to mitigate the effects of wildfire smoke.
Read more...Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home
The trauma center ripoff provides more evidence that the medical industry is primarily in the business of exploitation, not care.
Read more...A Curious Union: Covid, Clorox, Cleveland Clinic, and the CDC Foundation
Cleveland Clinic’s and the CDC Foundation’s unsound Clorox sponsorship confirms that the US has the best medical system that money can buy.
Read more...Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: When Innovation Fails, or Rather Works Too Well
The opioid crisis provides a deadly example of why innovation often is simply a new-fangled form of predation.
Read more...Purdue Bankruptcy Plan Moves Closer to Approval: Sacklers Would Make Out Well and Preserve Much of the Family Fortune, Despite the Opioids Crisis
Last week fifteen states dropped opposition to Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy exit plan, making it likely the plan will be approved when it comes before a federal bankruptcy judge in August.
Read more...Drugmakers’ Spending on Stock, Dividends and Executive Pay Exceeds Research, Democrats Say
The largest drug companies are far more interested in enriching themselves and investors than in developing new drugs, according to a House committee report released Thursday
Read more...Book Review: The History of Animal-Based Medicine in China
Even critics of animal-based potions in China don’t understand its origins….which means they may be easier to contain than is now assumed.
Read more...Moving the Covid Vaccine Goalposts
The Covid propagation and vaccine news is not pointing to happy outcomes
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