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“A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for chronic pain. ChatGPT found the diagnosis,” says the Today show. On one hand, one could blame the modern practice of allopathic medicine, in which physicians have been turned into accountants and data input...
by soupbone60
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on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 09:46 AM PDT
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Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act . Biden held a press event today along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority ...
by Walter Einenkel
42 comments
on Wed Aug 16, 2023 at 04:50 PM PDT
with 124 Recommends
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The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is completely nonfunctional. Well, let me clarify that a bit. It functions great for the drug companies that receive huge government subsidies and tax breaks , and ...
by Ian Reifowitz
48 comments
on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 05:59 AM PST
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by Lady Nutmegger
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on Wed Nov 16, 2022 at 06:04 AM PST
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Mehmet Oz’s campaign to become the next senator from Pennsylvania continues to stumble along. First there was the crudités fiasco, then the “how many homes does Oz own” imbroglio, followed by wishy-washy abortion concepts, which he coupled with failed...
by Walter Einenkel
75 comments
on Wed Sep 07, 2022 at 05:37 PM PDT
with 158 Recommends
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The supplement industry is huge and unregulated. Worldwide annual supplement sales exceed US$151 billion, yet contaminated supplements are part of the industry's method to make their mostly useless products appear to have some clinical effect. There is...
by SkepticalRaptor
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on Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 02:07 PM PDT
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Most Americans are not concerned about the politics of medicine. That kills many going forward. We must understand pharmaceutical companies. It is time to remove power from all inhumane corporations, including pharmaceutical companies. Politics...
by Egberto Willies
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on Fri Dec 18, 2020 at 01:00 PM PST
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One thing that will not substantially change as a new government takes power in January 2021 is the near-total lack of advocacy for our needs, as living human beings, where they conflict with the fiscal interests of “corporate persons.” Perhaps the...
by Rogueplanet
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on Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 09:43 AM PST
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In a combative interview this morning on CNN’s “State of the Union”, Meadows blurted this nugget out of his pie-hole: "We're not going to control the pandemic, we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations,"...
by citixen
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on Sun Oct 25, 2020 at 09:40 AM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Oct 09, 2020 at 04:50 AM PDT
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Democratic Rep. Katie Porter has spent her first couple of years in Congress really working hard to point out the corruption and greed being perpetrated by the CEOs of major industries. She’s exposed the banking industry and its moral bankruptcy,...
by Walter Einenkel
213 comments
on Wed Sep 30, 2020 at 04:15 PM PDT
with 366 Recommends
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Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting that a number of COVID-19 vaccine developers, including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna plan to issue a public pledge that they will not seek government approval until their vaccines are proven to...
by grapes
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on Fri Sep 04, 2020 at 06:07 PM PDT
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Bruce Boise paid the price for being a big Pharma whistleblower. But in the long run, he did the right thing and came out ahead. He tells his whistleblower story in his new book “Cold Comfort.” ...
by Egberto Willies
5 comments
on Wed Jul 08, 2020 at 08:27 PM PDT
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As COVID-19 (aka the coronavirus) spreads in different areas of the world and now in the United States, the Trump administration is trying to figure out the best way to show that it’s doing a responsible job handling the public health crisis. Donald...
by Walter Einenkel
309 comments
on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 04:29 PM PST
with 195 Recommends
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According to an NIH-&-others-funded study published online February 10 in Nature Biotechnology, and discussed at medscape (free to all, just need to register): Personalized treatment for depression may soon become a reality, thanks to an artificial...
by mettle fatigue
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on Fri Feb 14, 2020 at 06:51 PM PST
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California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to unveil a proposal on Friday that would make the Golden State the first in the country to sell its own brand of generic prescription drugs. According to the Los Angeles Times, the details of the plan...
by Walter Einenkel
59 comments
on Fri Jan 10, 2020 at 01:33 PM PST
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Capping insulin copay: What happens when elected officials are NOT bought-and-paid-for? Good things! Good things happen when elected officials are NOT bought-and-paid-for — lives may get saved! Many Virginia families might be protected and defended from unconscionable insulin prices if Virginia replicates Colorado's law capping insulin co-pays! It's...
by DemocracyIsNotForSale
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on Sat Sep 07, 2019 at 10:04 AM PDT
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New research published in JAMA Neurology on Monday reports that the annual cost of “self-administered disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis more than quadrupled” between 2006-2016, raising the mean yearly costs for drugs from $18,660 to...
by Walter Einenkel
41 comments
on Mon Aug 26, 2019 at 10:01 AM PDT
with 98 Recommends
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The reasons Americans, liberal and conservative alike, want a more socialized medical infrastructure is because the private sector’s greed has become untenable for almost everyone. Drug prices continue to skyrocket, premiums rise, and what is covered...
by Walter Einenkel
63 comments
on Mon Jun 17, 2019 at 01:50 PM PDT
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More people have been able to get diagnosed and begin treatment for diabetes as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Having health insurance allows people to see doctors and find out what they need to do to be healthy and stay healthy. Unfortunately,...
by Walter Einenkel
164 comments
on Tue May 07, 2019 at 09:31 AM PDT
with 225 Recommends
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- Many Americans are confused by the spectacle they heard (we couldn’t “witness” it because Republicans on the Supreme Court won’t allow their proceedings to be televised) yesterday as an attorney for Donald Trump, at least three different times in...94 comments 264 Recs
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- Reposted from Substack This week MAGA Media outlets have breathlessly declared that they’ve found “smoking gun” evidence that proves that the Biden Administration was in communication with ...16 comments 131 Recs
- Expect the Senate race to be close this fall—unless Wisconsinites find out what Eric Hovde thinks of them. Are you a farmer? Eric Hovde thinks your retirement age should be pushed up to 72 because after all, “you’re largely driving around on a tractor”...24 comments 139 Recs
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- I am channeling my inner Andy Rooney for this VERY short diary, and am delighted that the Image Library is here to help yet again. Did ya ever notice how, right after the Democrats pull off something absolutely remarkable, this strange thing happens...417 comments 790 Recs
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