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Purging Healthcare of Unnatural Acts
BY UWE REINHARDT
In tribute to Uwe we are re-running this instant classic from THCB’s archives. Originally published on Jan 31, 2017.
Everyone knows (or should know) that forcing a commercial health insurer to write for an individual a health insurance policy at a premium that falls short of the insurer’s best ex ante estimate of the cost of health care that individual will require is to force that insurer into what economists might call an unnatural act.
Remarkably, countries that rely on competing private health insurers to operate their universal, national health insurance systems all do just that. They allow...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Repeal Replace Trending Uwe Reinhardt Source Type: blogs
Sensus Healthcare ’s Technology Uses Low-Energy X-rays Directly on Cancer Cells: Interview with CEO Joe Sardano
Sensus Healthcare is a medical device company that focuses on providing non-invasive and cost-effective treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers and keloids utilizing superficial radiation technology (SRT). Their proprietary, FDA-cleared SRT technology...
Source: Medgadget - November 20, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Dermatology Exclusive Oncology Source Type: blogs
The painful side of positive health care marketing
Lori Wallace sits on a couch with her 11-year-old son and his new pet snake. It burrows under his armpit, as if afraid. Wallace is sure it’s not.
“If he was terrified, he would be balled up,” Wallace said. “See, that is why they are called ball pythons. When they are scared, they turn into a little ball.”
Wallace is dying of breast cancer, but a stranger wouldn’t know. She has a pixie haircut and a warm tan. She is vibrant and chatty and looks you right in the eyes when she talks. Wallace doesn’t shy away from what is happening to her. She shows her cracked feet. They bleed from the chemotherapy pills she tak...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sam-harnett" rel="tag" > Sam Harnett < /a > Tags: Patient Hospital-Based Medicine Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
5 Reasons Sulfate-Free Products Exist
Have you ever wondered why companies sell sulfate free products? If there is some safety issue with sulfates, why do companies continue to sell those products? Why would L’Oreal sell a sulfate free shampoo and also a sulfate containing shampoo?
It all comes down to marketing…mostly.
Interest in sulfate free
A while back I was interviewed by a reporter at Teen Vogue about sulfate free products. It’s a good article and for the most part, my views on sulfate free products were properly portrayed. There was a fair amount of fear mongering from some of the other experts they quoted, but that’s not un...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - November 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Cosmetic Formulations Natural cosmetics hair products shampoo sulfate free Source Type: blogs
Matching Seniors and Caregivers: Interview with Josh Bruno, Founder/CEO of Hometeam, and Dr. Jeffrey A. Sachs, Hometeam Advisor
Finding a suitable caregiver for an elderly relative can be difficult, and leaving a vulnerable loved one with a stranger can be tough, especially if they have very specific medical or care needs. An innovative platform, developed by Hometeam, a comp...
Source: Medgadget - October 31, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Geriatrics Medicine Source Type: blogs
Founder and Owner of Insys Arrested
Late last week, John N. Kapoor, the founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics, Inc., was arrested and charged with leading a conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain.
The superseding indictment includes allegations of RICO conspiracy, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback law. It also includes additional allegations against former Insys executives and managers who were initially indicted in December 2016.
The Justice Department claims that Kapoor an...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 30, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Pharmaceutical Companies and PBMs Helped to Create Our Opioid Crisis
I have blogged previously about the role of PBMs in shipping drugs to retail drug stores that placed suspiciously high drug orders (see:Drug Distributor McKesson Pays Record Penalty For Suspicious Opioid Orders). The role of the Sackler family, owners ofPurdue Pharma, in aggressively pushing Oxycontin is also now coming to light (see:The Sackler Family: best known for philanthropy, they made billions promoting Oxycontin;Report: Stamford company confirms DOJ probe). Let's face facts. You can't have a country-wide epidemic of prescription drugs without the connivance of some of the major corporations. Some of t...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 27, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Medical Ethics Pharmaceutical Industry Source Type: blogs
Worst Health Care Revolving Door Case So Far, Version 2.0? - From President of Lilly USA to US Secretary of Health and Human Services?
DiscussionLast week we noted that Mr Trump famously promised to " drain the swamp " in Washington. Last week, despite his previous pledges to not appoint lobbyists to powerful positions, he appointed a lobbyist to be acting DHHS Secretary. This week he is apparently strongly considering Mr Alex Azar, a pharmaceutical executive to be permanent DHHS Secretary, even though the FDA, part of DHHS, has direct regulatory authority over the pharmaceutical industry, and many other DHHS policies strongly affect the pharmaceutical industry. (By the way, Mr Azar was also in charge of one lobbying effort.) So sho...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 19, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: crime deception DHHS Donald Trump Eli Lilly legal settlements marketing regulatory capture revolving doors Source Type: blogs
So What ’s The Problem With Rice?
There is no question that, in this barrel of rotten apples, wheat is the rottenest. But you still may not want to make cider with those other apples. What I call “non-wheat grains,” such as oats, barley, rye, millet, teff, sorghum, corn, and rice, are nonetheless seeds of grasses whose consumption has the potential for harmful effects.
I would classify non-wheat grains as less bad than the worst— modern wheat— but less bad is not necessarily good. (That extraordinarily simple insight— that less bad is not necessarily good— is one that will serve you well over and over as you learn to question conventional nutri...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Rice Undoctored Wheat Belly blood sugar diabetes Dr. Davis gluten gluten-free grain grain-free Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Health 2.0 Fall Conference: 12 New Product Launches Announced
The Health 2.0 Fall Conference provides a number of opportunities for startups and entrepreneurs to share their novel innovations and ideas, including the Startup Pitch Competition, the Exhibit Hall, Market Connect sessions, 3.5 minute breakout sessi...
Source: Medgadget - October 6, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
If Rigvir is effective “ virotherapy ” for cancer, why are quack clinics selling it and quackery promoters like Ty Bollinger promoting it?
Last week, I wrote about Rigvir, a “virotherapy” promoted by the International Virotherapy Center (IVC) in Latvia, which did not like what I had to say. When a representative called me to task for referring to the marketing of Rigvir using patient testimonials as irresponsbile, it prompted me to look at how Ty Bollinger’s The Truth About Cancer series promoted Rigvir through patient testimonials and how the IVC itself uses such testimonials. The word “irresponsible” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 2, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Aina Muceniece Antonio Jimenez coffee enema ECHO-7 Echovirus Elita Shapovalova Hope4Cancer International Virotherapy Center Ivars K Source Type: blogs
If Rigvir is effective " virotherapy " for cancer, why are quack clinics selling it and quackery promoters like Ty Bollinger promoting it?
Last week, I wrote about Rigvir, a “virotherapy” promoted by the International Virotherapy Center (IVC) in Latvia, which did not like what I had to say. When a representative called me to task for referring to the marketing of Rigvir using patient testimonials as irresponsbile, it prompted me to look at how Ty Bollinger’s The Truth About Cancer series promoted Rigvir through patient testimonials and how the IVC itself uses such testimonials. The word “irresponsible” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
The post If Rigvir is effective "virotherapy" for cancer, why are quack clinics selling it and quackery p...
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 2, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Aina Muceniece Antonio Jimenez coffee enema ECHO-7 Echovirus Elita Shapovalova Hope4Cancer International Virotherapy Center Ivars K Source Type: blogs
Latest Legal Settlements Suggest Hazards of Making Pharmaceutical Regulation More Lenient, as is Apparently Favored by New FDA Leader
DiscussionAll the cases discussed above were of behavior that could have harmed patients. Many of the companies involved had records of previous ethical misadventures. While a few cases resulted in corporate guilty pleas (to misdemeanors), none resulted in monetary penalties that would have much impact on the companies ' finances, and none resulted in any negative consequences for people who enabled, authorized, directed or implemented the bad behavior.These, just the latest in the march oflegal settlements by large health care organizations, again demonstrate how often and how seriously pharmaceutical companie...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: adulterated drugs Celgene crime deception FDA impunity legal settlements market fundamentalism Novo Nordisk revolving doors thalidomide Source Type: blogs
Pinktober
Its now Pinktober. It will be horrible. There will be pink on everything. There were even little pink ribbons on the bananas I bought last week. I was appalled but I didn ' t notice until I got home and it was too lazy to bring them back.But please brace yourself and do not get sucked into the pinkification which will be rampant all month long. Please do not purchase anything or donate to anything that claims to support breast cancer unless you know the following:The organization to which the money is going - are they a real organization that really will use the funds to provide what they said they will.That the total amou...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 1, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: donating pink washing pinkification pinktober research Source Type: blogs
