You can find a few good blogs to disabuse yourself of the climate misinformation promulgated by environmental whack jobs.
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Sidekick Health welcomes new investors, who pumped $55 million into "digital therapeutics", another over-hyped supposedly disruptive health care trend. This involves the typical phone apps, etc. that will instantly make you lose weight, get exercise, manage your blood pressure and blood sugar, etc. The investors who get stuck holding the bag will have a digit for you.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/sidekick-health-nets-55m-step-digital-therapeutics-spotlightMild upticks are reflected in this week's age structure charts.
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I didn't want to talk about this, but the level of absurdity around Presidementia Biden's plan for a Ministry of Disinformation and the clown he proposes to run it, necessitates…
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Ongoing research summarization is occurring, despite my desire to end it.
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Vaccine effectiveness against all events is diminishing in all age groups.
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The official numbers miss a huge amount of breakthrough cases that are identified by home testing, but this is truly an epidemic of the vaxed at this point.
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A lot of people get CV-19 after being admitted to the hospital, way more than even the data says.
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A company called Hello Heart raises a fresh $70 million in capital for yet another app that supposedly helps improve management of cardiac health. I despair about the sanity of venture capital and private equity investors, they just seem to keep making the same mistake of funding companies that don't really do anything clinically worthwhile, but then I remember THEY ARE PLAYING WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY and they are really good at the greater fool theory--they dump bad investments on some other chump before the problem becomes apparent--see Teladoc, e.g.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/hello-heart-notches-70m-scale-cardiovascular-health-app-among-employersSome interesting research findings as the country undergoes a largely hidden wave of breakthrough Omicron infections.
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A few health research nuggets from the last couple of years, trying to catch up on a few of the more interesting pieces not related to the epidemic.
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Even though cases are up somewhat, there is little evidence of serious disease.
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Having private investors own health care facilities isn't all bad. They may jack prices up mercilessly, but they don't appear to hurt outcomes for care and may even improve them, according to this study in JAMA. Mortality relatingt to hospitalizations for heart attacks was lower following an acquisition of a hospital by private equity, but there were no changes in spending or quality for other conditions studied.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2791727?utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetworkopen&utm_content=wklyforyou&utm_term=042922I just can't stop summarizing the CV-19 research, which maybe is a long-Covid symptom.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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