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BY ANISH KOKA Myopericarditis is a now a well reported complication associated with Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) vaccinations. This has been particularly common with the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines (BNT162b2 and mrna-1273), with a particular predilection for young males. Current guidance ...

BY KIM BELLARD AI continues to amaze – ChatGPT is now passing Wharton Business School exams, Microsoft and Google are doubling down in their AI efforts – and I’m as big a fan as anyone, but I want to talk about a technology that has been more under the radar, so to speak: ultrasound.   ...

BY MIKE MAGEE A case has been made that a logical approach to reforming America’s violent and racist leanings would be to adopt the values and practices of Health Care for All. These include a commitment to compassion, understanding, and partnership; extending the linkages between ...

By GEORGE HALVORSON Medicare Advantage now enrolls almost exactly half the people enrolled in Medicare — and has both significant fans and hardline opponents in the health care policy circles who disagree about its performance. The biggest attack point that comes from the critics ...

By KIM BELLARD News flash from the culture wars: they’re coming to take our gas stoves! Well, actually, “they” are not, but the kind of people who got alarmed about it are a threat to our health, and to theirs. The gas stove furor started with a Bloomberg News interview that ...

THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday January 19 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey); and Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune). You can see the video ...

BY ANISH KOKA Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident. The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic ...

THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday January 19 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey); and Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune). You can see the video ...

By MICHAEL MILLENSON A Deere tractor developed in Moline, Illinois and a stethoscope-for-patients from Singapore pointed to the future of digital health at CES 2023, the Consumer Technology Association gathering that’s become a global innovation hub. The tractor appeared on a large ...

By MIKE MAGEE On the evening of December 29, 1940, with election to his 3rd term as President secured, FDR delivered these words as part of his sixteenth “Fireside Chat”: “There can no appeasement with ruthlessness…No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.” Millions of ...

By KIM BELLARD The Sunday Times featured an op-ed by Mark Britnell, a professor at the UCL Global Business School for Health, with the headline Our creaking NHS can’t beat its admin chaos without a tech revolution. Substitute “U.S. healthcare system” for “NHS” and the headline still ...

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