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02/12/2025

02/01/2025

Data on the CDC's website are being removed to comply with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility, Katherine J. Wu reports:

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

01/31/2025

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The drug is for moderate to severe acute pain.

11/16/2023

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A Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival. “We crossed the line,” says a former executive.

11/03/2023

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These decisions erode doctors having any ability at all in how you are treated in or out of the hospital. To stay in practice they run faster and faster on a hamster wheel with less and less time for thought or listening to the patient or even finding out all the relevant facts. This is destroying health care and eliminating private practices

Medicare administrators served doctors and hospitals a pair of big payment cuts late Thursday. The big picture: Doctors will see a 3.4% decrease to a key factor determining their base Medicare pay next year, officials announced in a final rule. That’s virtually unchanged from what administrators p...

07/31/2023

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05/28/2023

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/analysis-health-insurance-claim-denials-are-on-the-rise-to-the-detriment-of-patients?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Despite the potentially dire impact that denials have on patients’ health or finances, data shows that people appeal only once in every 500 cases.

05/21/2023

Contaminated eyedrops now linked to 4 deaths, 14 cases of blindness: CDC

Eye drops that have been contaminated with a highly drug-resistant strain of bacteria have now been linked to four deaths and 14 cases of blindness, according to an update from the Centers for Dise…

05/19/2023

Choose your athletic wear carefully!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/business/bpa-sports-bras-leggings/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2RYWlMH2Bhoph4HWsCNzGtl795ooLaVVoMP-mTPTbJ9k4FRFNo7CoDTf8&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

An increasing number of sports bra and athletic wear brands have been found with high levels of BPA in them, a chemical compound that’s used to make certain types of plastic and can lead to harmful health effects such as asthma, cardiovascular disease and obesity, a watchdog group said on Wednesda...