New rules issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that protect patients from...
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One billionaire’s influence over lowering drug prices
Rose Adams writes for The American Prospect about one billionaire’s influence over lowering...
What if physicians can’t calculate patients’...
A new paper in JAMA Network Open finds that physicians are bad at figuring out patients’...
New Alzheimer’s drug drives up Part B premiums
As with all health care costs, Medicare out-of-pocket costs are rising rapidly. In 2022, Medicare...
What are Medicare premium and other costs in 2022?
The Medicare Open Enrollment period ends on December 7, so you still have time to review your...
Avoid bad Medicare Advantage plans
Medicare Annual Open Enrollment runs until December 7. If you’re enrolling in Medicare for...
Kidney stones and five tips to prevent them
The National Kidney Foundation estimates that one in ten people will develop a kidney stone...
How to prepare for your doctor’s visit
Whether you’re in good health or poor health, in a separate post I explained why it’s important...
Who should take ketamine for depression?
Everywhere I turn these days, someone is talking up ketamine and its ability to treat mood...
The value of psychedelics
More people have been turning to psychedelics to treat post traumatic stress disorder, depression...