Paula Span reports for The New York Times on a health care initiative that can help make end-of-life decisions for individuals and their families a little easier. A “time-limited trial”...
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Warning: Some cell phones can cause implanted medical devices to...
If you are among the millions of Americans with a pacemaker or defibrillator, you’d best keep your cellphone or smartwatch away from it. The FDA just issued a warning that cellphones and other...
Air pollution and your mental health
Nicholas Bakalar writes for the New York Times on a new study that finds a link between the air you breathe and your mental health. Polluted air, even in small doses, can affect your mental acuity...
Coronavirus: Hospitals sue patients and profit handsomely
I wish I could say that the COVID-19 pandemic has motivated Congress to take on high health care costs and predatory health care corporations. It has not. Instead, Vox reports that Community Health...
Insurers profit from Rx rebates, not patients
A new study published in JAMA Network finds that when pharmaceutical companies raise the wholesale prices of their drugs and increase rebates to insurers, insurers profit and more than half of people...
$150,000: Your health care costs in retirement
With COVID-19, people are retiring a bit earlier than in the past several years and more than one in four Americans are saving less or not at all for retirement. Paul Brandus reports for MarketWatch...
Medicare mental health care cost and access issues
As a nation, the US has done a terrible job of meeting people’s mental health care needs. Both public and private health insurance cover mental health care, but they pay so little for mental...
How to avoid unintentional injuries
As we age, the risk of unintentional injuries rises. A new Centers for Disease Control study looks specifically at unintentional injuries among older adults. Older people can and should take...
Rx lessons for Congress
Our representatives in the House and Senate are once again considering how to ensure that Americans have access to the medicines they need. Let’s hope that the Democrats have learned the lessons of...
GAO finds US drug prices more than four times those in France
The US Government Accountability Office just released a new report at the behest of Senator Bernie Sanders that finds that Americans can pay more than four times more for prescription drugs than...