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Private Pay Growth Tops Federal in 2018
This study examines federal compensation issues in detail, and the underlying BEA data are in section 6 tableshere.
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Trump Plan For Pharmaceutical Importation A Small Step In The Right Direction
On July 31 Secretary of Health and Humans Services Alex Azar announced a proposal that would allow US pharmacies, distributors, and states to import drugs from Canada that are sold there by US drug makers at prices well below the prices for which they are sold in the U.S. US pharmaceutical companies sell many of their products at much lower prices demanded by Canada’s central health ministry called Health Canada. The Secretary was authorized to implement this proposed policy by theMedicare Modernization Act of 2003.This idea has been long opposed by US pharmaceutical companies. They argue that the Food and Drug Admini...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 1, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Hong Kong Needs to Leverage Its Free Market in Ideas
The massive demonstrations in Hong Kong against the proposedextradition bill revealed the moral rectitude of citizens to protect their way of life and freedom from Communist China. On June 9, hundreds of thousands of individuals exercised their right to peacefully contest the extradition legislation supported by Chief Executive Carrie Lam. By putting moral and political pressure on government officials, the people succeeded in reversing the course of the bill, which was s uspended on June 15 and declared “dead” on July 9. Yet the bill has not been fully withdrawn and could be reintroduced in the future—a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 29, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 29th 2019
In this study we show, for the first time, significant alterations in cholesterol efflux capacity in adolescents throughout the range of BMI, a relationship between six circulating adipocyte-derived EVs microRNAs targeting ABCA1 and cholesterol efflux capacity, and in vitro alterations of cholesterol efflux in macrophages exposed to visceral adipose tissue adipocyte-derived EVs acquired from human subjects. These results suggest that adipocyte-derived EVs, and their microRNA content, may play a critical role in the early pathological development of ASCVD.
Commentary on the Developing UK Government Position on Hea...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 28, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Commentary on the Developing UK Government Position on Healthy Longevity
One option for patient advocacy for the treatment of aging as a medical condition is to petition governments and large international organizations such as the World Health Organization to adjust their positions on research funding and goals in medicine. This a fairly popular path, for all that I think it not terribly effective at speeding up the cutting edge of research and development. Large organizations of any sort are inherently conservative, and tend to get meaningfully involved in new fields of human endeavor only long after their support would have been truly influential.
Nonetheless, numerous examples of gov...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 26, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
Senator Portman Presumes To Know How Many Days Of Pain Relief All 328 Million Americans Need
With clear evidence that restricting the number of prescriptions increased the death rate by driving non-medical users to heroin and fentanyl, the last thing one wants to hear about is a politician planning to double down on this deadly policy by calling for further prescription limits for patients in pain.Yet Senator Robert Portman (R-OH) is proposing legislation that would impose a national 3-day limit on opioid prescriptions following surgeries. He will be kind enough to allow exceptions for people dealing with cancer, chronic pain, and “other serious matters”—whatever that means.Government data show there i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 2
By BOB HERTZ
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers!
When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment.
They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging.
We need more legal protection of patients. In some cases we need price controls.
Next in this three-part series, I discuss how we could challenge Big Pharma by lessening regulation of generic drugs, having the government take over production and establishing price review boards.
Assault Phase Three – Challenge Big Pharma
Step One – Less Regulation of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Sandy Hook: Community Healing After a Large-Scale Trauma
Everyone remembers the disturbing images from the Sandy Hook school shooting in December 2012 after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 first-grade children. It was traumatic for all of us, but what was it like to actually be a member of that community?
Today’s guest, Melissa Glaser, worked for 20 months as a coordinator for the Newtown Recovery and Resiliency Team, a group of mental health professionals, funded by a Department of Justice grant, who worked in partnership with local recovery providers, community organizations, and town employees to provide services to over 900 people immediately affecte...
Source: World of Psychology - July 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: PTSD The Psych Central Show Trauma Violence and Aggression Source Type: blogs
Price-Fixing Case Reveals Vulnerability of Generic Drug Policies
By ANDREW MULCAHY
A massive lawsuit filed in May by 44 states accuses 20 major drug makers of colluding for years to inflate prices on more than 100 generic drugs, including those to treat H.I.V., cancer and depression. If true, the alleged behavior is not just a violation of antitrust law, but also a betrayal of the government policies that created and defended the entire generic drug industry.
Most prescriptions in the U.S. today — 9 in 10 — are filled with generics, which are just as safe and effective as their brand-name equivalent. And yet generics account for only 22 percent of U....
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Andrew Mulcahy drug price controls Drug Pricing generic drugs pharmaceuticals price-fixing Source Type: blogs
From Chernobyl To Mars: The Future Of Radiation Protection
In the minutes after block 4 of the nuclear power
plant in Chernobyl exploded, no one knew that they are experiencing a disaster
that never happened anywhere before on planet Earth. The public health,
environmental, and even the socio-political consequences were disastrous and we
can still experience the negative impacts. That’s why we posed the question of
what public health authorities, as well as individuals, can do to mitigate the
consequences of radiation exposure, and what digital technologies are available
for radiation detection. In this respect, after our investigations, it even
turned out that it would be benef...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Space Medicine astronautics chernobyl disaster fiction Health Healthcare Innovation mars nuclear power plant public health radiation radiation exposure radiation protection technology Source Type: blogs
A Case at the Intersection of the Taxing Power and the Second Amendment
Several years ago, Nick Bronsozian was charged with possession of an unregistered machinegun under a tax law statute. The provision in question, 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), says that in order to have a machinegun registered, a tax must be paid on it. Simple enough, right? Bronsozian didn’t pay his tax. Case closed. That’s what the government argued anyway, but the situation is more complicated than that.A subsequently enacted law, 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), prevents the government from registering and accepting tax payments on new machineguns. So Bronsozian was charged and convicted of a felony for not paying a tax that the govern...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 21, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Matthew Larosiere Source Type: blogs
Of Course a Memorial Cross Doesn ' t Establish Religion
This morning,the Supreme Court ruled in American Legion v. American Humanist Association that a 100-year-old cross WWI memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, doesn ’t “establish” religion. That’s the correct result (readCato ’s brief), but the mish-mash of opinions – it took a paragraph to explain which justice was joining which aspect of the decision – leaves Establishment Clause jurisprudence in the muddled state it’s been for decades.That is, much like in the Ten Commandments cases in 2005, the cross here survived largely because it ’s really, really old. Justice Alito’s majority opinion does well not ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
Is sugar causing you to AGE faster?
Americans consume the equivalent of 300 loaves of bread each year (representing enormous exposure to the amylopectin A carbohydrate that behaves like sugar or worse). They also consume 200 pounds of sugar. It is not uncommon for sugar alone to comprise a quarter of all calories taken in over the course of the day—some of it out in the open, some of it hidden.
To understand the adverse effects of sugars—sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and other fructose-rich sweeteners, such as agave, honey, and maple syrup—we need to understand two phenomena:
1. Insulin resistance
2 Glycation.
Insulin Resistance
When blood...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 18, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Anti-aging BLOOD SUGAR Diabetes Dr. Davis Undoctored arthritis dementia grain-free grains health heart disease insulin joint pain weight gain Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Iowa Channels Colonel Jessup in Prosecuting Truth-Telling
“You can’t handle the truth!” So says Jack Nicholson’s cantankerous Colonel Nathan R. Jessup inA Few Good Men upon the prosecutor ’s needling inquisition into the death of a young Marine. So also say the paternalistic officials of Davenport, Iowa to tenants who seek to learn whether their eviction was motivated by what they would consider to be a good or bad reason. The Supreme Court has long held that “hurtful” speech— even outright hate speech—shares the same level of First Amendment protection as a friendly greeting. Two years ago inMatal v. Tam, the Court summarized the law thus: “Speech may not be ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
The best medical AI research (that you probably haven ’t heard of)
In this study, they performed invasive medical procedures on patients because of the output of an AI system.
Before you get all “of course they did, it was China, something something safety standards”**, I want to be clear – they did exactly what needs to be done to show that a system is safe. After you do your performance testing and get promising results, you need to actually test what happens in practice. This is right. This is good.
A colonoscopy AI in a clinic doesn’t just make a visual decision. It (with the endoscopist) decides who needs a biopsy. If your testing doesn’t include actually doing the bi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Health Technology AI clinical research Luke Oakden-Rayner Radiology Source Type: blogs
