“The possibility of a lawsuit increased the intensity of health care that patients received in the hospital by about 5 percent — and those patients who got the extra care were no better off.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/upshot/malpractice-lawsuits-medical-costs.html
“By freely distributing plans for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, a loose collective of anarchists and hackers is threatening to pull the rug out from under one of the most regulated and profitable industries in the world. And they’re just getting started.”
“The UK based pharma company Indivior PLC had got the restraining orders against Dr Reddy’s just a day after the US FDA granted the final approval last month.”
“Incarceration rates are on the rise alongside economic inequality, and children aren’t exempt. Quite often, the only crime these children have committed is that they’re from vulnerable families or suffering from mental health issues.”
Read more: https://otherwords.org/let-me-tell-you-what-forced-separation-feels-like/
“The government does not fine or otherwise prosecute ‘free’ drivers because the purpose of the licensing bylaw is to restrict competition, not to protect the public.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/governments-war-ladies-who-drive-you-home-hospital
“The Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-sears-license-20180629-story.html
“A Clinton era federal law called the Adoption of Safe Families Act hands out federal funds to states based on the number of children the state takes from parents.”
“Developmental trauma — trauma experienced in childhood — is much more difficult to heal than trauma suffered as an adult.”
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/20/immigrant-kids-are-suffering-trauma-will-last-years
“Civil rights advocates and medical groups are arguing the databases should be used to identify problem patients and get them into treatment. The American Medical Association calls for the databases to be placed under health departments rather than the police agencies and disciplinary boards that control most of them.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/databases-key-crackdown-on-opioids-686879
“Most of the psychedelics tested, the researchers found, promoted the growth of new dendrites from a neuron cell, which help transmit information from other neurons to the cell, as well as increased the density of small protrusions on these dendrites, known as dendritic spines. They also jumpstarted the growth of new connections, or synapses, between individual neurons.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-drugs-may-help-the-brain-repair-itself-stu-1826765205