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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Unfortunately, healthcare belief and opinion rather than science seem to rule too much of healthcare today.

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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

Mad in America

2024,” healthcare visits, procedures, tests, and vaccinations decreased but the number of new prescriptions saw a 3% increase. Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health. A ccording to the IQVIA Institute report, “The Use of Medicines in the U.S.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

In the multifaceted world of health and wellbeing, it is increasingly clear that traditional healthcare and employee benefits focusing primarily on clinical care don’t fully encompass an individual’s health status. Now more than ever it is critical to make sure that healthcare is universally available to all.

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3 middle class families across America share what they earn, spend, and save

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“Plus, food prices in Spain are cheap,” she says. Last year, the family went to Spain for two weeks, using points from a trip that was canceled during COVID. When they travel, they try to stay in an Airbnb, so they don’t need to buy breakfast in a restaurant.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. Nike knows that to sell sneakers they’re going to tap a very famous athlete and in much the same way that Nike knows that, so too do the pharmaceutical company executives.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. will solve our healthcare problems. Even fewer spot the role assays play.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

Mad in America

In another faith healing site in India, Rajasthan’s Balaji Temple, visitors deprive themselves of sleep, eat tasteless or bitter food, restrain themselves in chains, hit their bodies against the walls or move their head in repeated, circular motion for long periods of time to heal. lakhs on healthcare,” she explained.