Osteopaths are increasingly stepping into the primary care gap produced by MDs who increasingly go into lucrative specialities.
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 30 Comments »
Links 6/6/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 140 Comments »
WHO Forges Partnership With EU to Create Global Digital Vaccine Passport System
The World Health Organization (WHO) adopts the EU’s expiring digital vaccine passport as a global standard, as we warned would happen over a year ago.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 26 Comments »
Catastrophic Breach of Nova Kakhovka Dam Floods Lower Dnieper, Cuts Crimea Water Supplies; Ukraine Attacks in Bakhmut, South Donetsk [Updated]
Those unhappy about the lack of drama in the Ukraine war of late have gotten what they wanted with the breach of the Kakhovka dam
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Europe, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:41 am | 113 Comments »
Saying That Students Embrace Censorship on College Campuses Is Incorrect
Do you agree with that the idea that campuses have a lot of censorship is greatly exaggerated?
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:54 am | 24 Comments »
NIH “12 Symptoms” Long Covid Study: Another Scientific Communications Debacle, or Worse?
It would be really nice if the NIH were not as dysfunctional as CDC. But I have my doubts….
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 21 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/5/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 70 Comments »
Links 6/5/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 136 Comments »
Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong
The three of us have studied forest fungi for our whole careers, and even we were surprised by some of the more extraordinary claims surfacing in the media about the wood-wide web. Thinking
Topics: Environment, Media watch, Permaculture, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 21 Comments »
Wall Street Journal Aids Vulture Investors Threatening Second Mortgage Borrowers With Foreclosure….on (Nearly Always) Legally Unenforceable Debt
Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Free markets and their discontents, Legal, Media watch, Real estate, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:00 am | 12 Comments »
Insurers Signal Fallout From Sanctions On Russia
UK maritime insurers are daring to speak up about the way they have become Russian sanctions collateral damage.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:55 am | 38 Comments »
Is There a Covid Wastewater Spike in New York City?
Spoiler alert: yes. Though it’s not easy!
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 19 Comments »
Links 6/4/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 150 Comments »
As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage
In what’s known as the Medicaid unwinding, states are combing through rolls and deciding who stays and who goes. People who are no longer eligible or don’t complete paperwork in time will be dropped.
Topics: Health care, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 28 Comments »
Links 6/3/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 160 Comments »