Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and a regular THCB contributor. He is the author of  This means lower rates of abortion care, but also a smaller maternal health workforce overall. This is in states that had already been lagging behind in access to obstetrical and reproductive health care in general. Clinical shortages are expected to rise in the months approaching an historic Presidential election. overturning Roe v. Wade, 14 states have near complete bans on all abortions and this reproductive care is severely restricted in an additional 11 states “with few or no exceptions for mate ..read more

They use that false information, and they use a very skillful and intentional fake news context to attack the plans with that information ..read more

Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and a regular THCB contributor. He is the author of  , “Today, and every day, we work to ensure that every patient who seeks sexual and reproductive health care can access it, and to build a just world that includes nationwide access to abortion for all — no matter what.” . Their major focus is on “categories of thought, proof, and experience” at the crossroads of “science and ambient cultures.” from both parties have been all the rage, literally. CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex.  ..read more

As for health insurers, articles about questionable denials of medical claims by giant insurers like   that a shocking 41% of U.S. adults have medical debt. However, although the phrase, “It’s the prices, stupid!” has become a bipartisan policy refrain, there are no swing state votes to be swung by harping on the alleged cupidity of the local hospital. So while denouncing “medical debt,” no one did. , according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, affecting one in 500 Americans, while the number of renters forced to pay more than 50 percent of their income has surged since 2 ..read more

But how would we reboot them? : “The future of computing could turn out to be one where we care for our devices in a way that’s closer to looking after a houseplant than it is to plugging in and switching on a laptop.” an audience last year: “Our goal is real-time dialog between natural and artificial systems.” Sensorimotor Control of Robots Mediated by Electrophysiological Measurements of Fungal Mycelia . As the release describes the work: wrote the book about fungal computing ..read more

Sophia Yen is the Chief Medical Officer (and Founder) of . She is about as expert as it comes on the topics contraception, emergency contraception, medication abortion, menopause and lots more. Her PR peeps asked if I’d interview her about Pandia Health, which is a fantastic online clinic & pharmacy for women at basically all ages. But I couldn’t have her on THCB without having her tell all about the world of contraception, menopause and of course reproductive health. I promise you that if you are a woman or somone who knows a woman, this is a fascinating interview. You will learn a lot, a ..read more

Phil Fasano is CEO of Recuro Health. Phil was CIO at Kaiser Permanente in the glory years when it rolled out Epic/Health Connect, which was at the time the biggest roll out of an EMR and was instrumental in creating Kaiser’s system of virtual care. A decade+ later the concept of telehealth and virtual care has been battered around, notably in the stock price of Teladoc and others. However, Phil is now leading a smaller organization called Recuro Health which is delivering extensive primary hybrid care to small & medium employers, has more then 1 million lives on the system, and is profitab ..read more

released a report on Medicare Advantage that’s incorrect on multiple key points that need to be corrected. We now have very current data about the patients, and the reporting process is extremely accurate in its information flow ..read more

Kim is a former emarketing exec at a major Blues plan, editor of the late & lamented  , and now regular THCB contributor of those who die from CRC are not up-to-date with their screening. . “The p-tau217 blood test is turning out to be the most specific for Alzheimer’s and the one with the most validity. It seems to be the front-runner.” : “If this test increases the number of people getting screened, it’s going to have a huge impact.”  ..read more

Mike Magee MD is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of “Robin Dunbar is best known for his namesake ‘Dunbar’s number,’ which he defines as the number of stable relationships people are cognitively able to maintain at once. (The proposed number is 150.) But after spending his decades-long career studying the complexities of friendship, he’s discovered many more numbers that shape our close relationships. For instance, Dunbar’s number turns out to be less like an absolute numerical threshold than a series of concentric circles, each standing for qualitatively d ..read more