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Insurers Are Dictating Care and We’re Sick, Sick, Sick of It!

N. Adam Brown is a practicing emergency physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare executive. He is the founder of ABIG Health, a healthcare growth strategy firm, and a professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. MedPage Today –The killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson sent shockwaves through the medical community, Wall Street, and social media. The motive behind the killing appears to be obvious: the bullets were reportedly inscribedopens in a new tab or window...

Drinking and driving leads to costly consequences in Colorado, $13,000+ for first offense

CBS Colorado – With Christmas only a week away, the Colorado State Patrol is warning drivers of the costly effects of a DUI. Troopers tell CBS Colorado they have arrested more than 4,100 drivers in 2023 for DUIs. Troopers say one-third of their traffic fatalities involved an impaired driver. Troopers are warning drivers about the financial impacts a DUI can create. Troopers say a recent calculation finds that the average first-time DUI in Colorado costs $13,530. The...

He Went in for a Colonoscopy. The Hospital Charged $19,000 for Two.

KFF HEALTH NEWS – Tom Contos is an avid runner. When he started experiencing rectal bleeding in March, he thought exercise could be the cause and tried to ignore it. But he became increasingly worried when the bleeding continued for weeks. The Chicago health care consultant contacted his physician at Northwestern Medicine, who referred him for a diagnostic colonoscopy, at least partly because Contos, 45, has a family history of colon issues. “I work out a...

Popular Arthritis Drug for Dogs May Have Severe Side Effects, FDA Says

dogs have died or have been euthanized after developing troubling symptoms

Mitch McConnell warns RFK Jr. against effort to undermine polio vaccines

CBS News – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued an apparent warning Friday to Robert F. Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, after The New York Times reported that one of Kennedy's top advisers had filed petitions to revoke the approval of a polio vaccine and several other shots. "Anyone seeking the Senate's consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even...

Trump: RFK Jr. Is Not Going To Take Away Polio Vaccines

DailyWire.com – President-elect Donald Trump said during a press conference on Monday that his nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will not take away vaccines like the polio vaccine. Trump made the remarks after a report from The New York Times last week revealed that a lawyer who is helping Kennedy select federal health officials for the incoming administration had petitioned the federal government just two years ago to...

Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids

The P.B.M.s are hired by insurers and employers to control their drug costs by negotiating discounts with pharmaceutical manufacturers. But a Times investigation this year found that they often pursue their own financial interests in ways that increase costs for patients.

Blind dog finds blind python in Florida Everglades

Mike Kimmel a.k.a the 'Python Cowboy' wrangle a blind snake his blind dog Helen found. Image is courtesy of the Python Cowboy.

A Centenarian Thrives Living Alone, Active and Engaged

KFF HEALTH NEWS – “The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Verona, New Jersey. She’d decided to begin life anew — on her own — in a one-bedroom apartment in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. Fourteen years later, Jaffe, now 102, still lives alone — just a few blocks away from the frenetic flashing lights and crowds that course through...

Youngkin to propose statewide ban on ‘sanctuary cities’ in Virginia

"Virginia is not a sanctuary state, and we must be clear that we will not allow localities to become ‘sanctuary cities.'"

Conan O’Brien’s Parents Die 3 Days Apart

THE NEW YORK TIMES – The parents of Conan O’Brien, the longtime late-night television host and a star in the comedy world, died this week within days of one another. Thomas Francis O’Brien, 95, an epidemiologist, and Ruth Reardon O’Brien, 92, a lawyer who made strides for women in the legal field, both died at their home in Brookline, Mass., according to the Bell O’Dea Funeral Home. Dr. O’Brien died on Monday, and Ms. O’Brien...

Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country

ARS TECHNICA – The gap of time between how long Americans live and how much of that time is spent in good health only grew wider in the last two decades, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. The study, which looked at global health data between 2000 and 2019—prior to the COVID-19 pandemic—found the US stood out for its years of suffering. By 2019, Americans had a gap between their lifespan and...

Deer hunters in Michigan keep dying. Now we know why

PENNLIVE – Deer season in Michigan is just less than two weeks old, and already three hunters have turned up dead. And now we know why. According to a Fox News report, the men were ages 57, 65 and 83, and they were found in Arenac and Tuscola counties in the state. And, per the report, officials believe they had heart attacks while dragging heavy deer back to their vehicles after kills. “The act of deer hunting typically...

14 ‘shocking’ signs at age 60 that you’ll develop dementia by age 80

Southerners have a higher chance of developing dementia, plus other unexpected findings

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