American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 17:31

texasobserver.org - Add yet another first place health care ranking no one wants for Texas: We have the highest hospital bills in the country. A new study has found that Texas prices (before…

Category: Business

How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 16:39

nytimes.com - Dr. Topol believes that A.I. can do more than enhance diagnoses and treatments. It can also save doctors from doing tasks like taking notes and reading scans, allowing them to spend…

Category: Science

Babying your back may delay healing - Harvard Health

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 16:15

health.harvard.edu - You might be considering surgery or other intervention to treat your back pain. But less may actually be more for this common problem, and in many instances the best medicine is…

Category: Science

BERN NOTICE: 5 Examples of Biden Literally Reciting Health Care Industry Talking Points

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 16:12

bernie.substack.com - If Joe Biden’s frantic attacks on Medicare for All seem familiar, that’s because a new analysis shows Biden is literally parroting the talking points being promoted by the…

Category: Business

Ian Hamilton: Prescription drugs are no cure for deprivation - The BMJ

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 14:27

blogs.bmj.com - The burden of poverty can muddy diagnoses of depression and lead to the overprescription of antidepressants, says Ian Hamilton For years people trying to reduce their antidepressant…

Category: Science

Ground Report: Kashmir's Blackout Is Triggering a New Wave of Mental Health Issues

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 13:00

thewire.in - Srinagar/Baramulla: She sat in a corner, beside the door of the doctor’s office, hidden by papers and medicine boxes on the compounder’s table. “I feel frustrated thinking about the…

Category: World

WHO investigating death in Tanzania due to unknown illness - Reuters

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 11:18

reuters.com - NAIROBI (Reuters) - A woman whose death in Tanzania is being investigated by the World Health Organization probably did not have Ebola, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease…

Category: Health

Lawsuit accuses ProScan of fraud, misdiagnosing MRIs

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 11:15

wcpo.com - CINCINNATI — A federal judge unsealed a whistleblower lawsuit on Thursday accusing ProScan – one of the largest MRI-reading companies in the nation - of using physician assistants, instead…

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Remains of more than 2,000 fetuses found at Illinois home of abortion doctor 10 days after his death

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 10:40

meaww.com - The medically preserved remains of more than than 2,000 fetuses were found at the Illinois home of an abortion doctor who died 10 days ago. The remains of a total of 2,246 fetuses were…

Category: Health

Thousands of Remains from Aborted Babies Found In Illinois Abortion Doctor's Home

Sat, 09/14/2019 - 10:17

redstate.com - There’s a sickness surrounding abortion and those who perform it as a profession. One Illinois abortion doctor had around 2,000 fetal body parts in his home despite the fact that no…

Category: Health