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September 2017 |
| "My 'right' to 'health care' diminishes your right to liberty--such as your right to use your own earnings to buy medical service you need to preserve your own life." |
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March 2020 |
| Industry has a valid stake in stem cell science, but we need to make sure qualified researchers are behind the outcome. Patients should always ask themselves, "Has the FDA cleared this? Is it backed by peer reviewed science?'" Their life may depend on it. |
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July 2020 |
| ". . . Have we turned a corner in the opioid epidemic? That question is even more complicated in the wake of COVID-19, as many of the public health initiatives that helped reduce the overdose death rate are in jeopardy." |
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July 2004 |
| Increasing numbers of medical studies indict dairy products as contributors to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, allergies, & possibly breast cancer. In children, dairy products can cause constipation, ear infefections, colic, asthma. . . |
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July 2011 |
| A drop in the number of AIDS-related deaths means that more and more individuals are grappling with the challenges associated with living with HIV. |
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March 2005 |
| "Although the epidemic of painkiller abuse continues to worsen, doctors--despite pressure from Federal regulators--are not about to stop prescribing narcotics." |
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September 2019 |
| "Healthcare" as one word refers to a system for the organization, financing, and provision of two words, "health care."…As two words, health care refers to a highly personal one-to-one, fiduciary service contract between a patient and a physician." |
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January 2021 |
| "The horrific things that happen after a stroke strikes can empower individuals to find their true character. . . . Think about the meaning of your existence in ways that were unlikely when you drifted complacently through life." |
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September 2019 |
| "…Courage is what it takes to become a successful diabetes self-manager. Your full, rich life depends on it." |
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September 2017 |
| The estimated cost of California's proposed single-payer program would have been $400,000,000,000, while the state's total budget is $179,500,000,000. |
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March 2006 |
| The primary focus has shifted "from end-of-life hospice care to outpatient clinical care, as HIV-positive patients on new drug regimens [sustain] longer, healthier lives." |
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November 2021 |
| Specialists are examining the role of particulate pollution, the positive impact of healthy lifestyle choices, and testing drugs to prevent the disease in at-risk individuals who are not showing any symptoms. |
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November 2019 |
| It is possible that the phenomena the researchers observed do not directly cause Alzheimer's disease, but herald it. These changes might serve as early markers, as an opportunity intervene before symptoms appear, and as a way to screen for new treatments. |
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September 2020 |
| "Diabetic foot ulcers are common, complex, and costly--and they are sinister in that they come on quietly. . . ." |
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March 2016 |
| "The entrenched challenges of the U.S. health care system demand a transformed approach. Left unchanged, health care will continue to underperform, cause unnecessary harm, and strain national, state, and family budgets." |
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May 2022 |
| ". . . It is the success or failure of our natural immune defenses that will determine the outcome of our future encounters with SARS-CoV-2 and other new viruses." |
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May 2018 |
| Odors that carry social cues seem to affect those on the autism spectrum differently. |
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January 2019 |
| "…Thousands of American children, every single day, are having their lives unnecessarily and permanently altered by a reckless, poorly tested and onitored vaccine program that puts industry profits ahead of kids' safety." |
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July 2020 |
| "This [COVID-19] virus is not going away any time soon . . . As businesses begin to open back up and people prepare to reenter the workplace, they should not let their guard down." |
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May 2004 |
| When afflicted with depression, men "may become frustrated, discouraged, angry, irritable, and abusive" or "engage in irresponsible behavior. . . . It often takes courage to ask for help." |
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July 2018 |
| "Until the TARP legislation was passed, patients were the owners of their medical records, which could not be shared without their knowledge or permission." |
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November 2010 |
| "The [FDA], like many other Federal agencies, wields way too much authoritarian power. The bureaucracy has become sovereign, governing in a manner not unlike the absolute monarchies who were destined for rights abuses by America's revolutionary leaders." |
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January 2018 |
| "The U.S. outspends every other country in the world on health care per capita by a wide margin. Despite this investment, we rank 40th in longevity." |
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May 2016 |
| "Statistically, if someone tries to quit heroin addiction cold turkey without any help, that individual has about a three in 1,000 chance of staying clean for one year. With substitution therapy and intensive counseling, the success rate is 80% to 85%." |
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September 2021 |
| "Thousands of healthy people are dying unexpectedly, but our public health agencies are assuring us that their demise was not caused by the COVID-19 vaccination." |
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March 2020 |
| Remdesivir has been administered to some patients with COVID-19. We do not have solid data to indicate it can improve clinical outcomes. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial should determine if an experimental treatment can benefit patients. |
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March 2018 |
| ". . . The 'cash' price for many medications at your local pharmacy is less than the co-pay if you are using your 'coverage' to buy these same medications. . . . You arebetter off claiming to be uninsured when you buy certain pharmaceuticals." |
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May 2022 |
| "The world needs to know the real story of COVID-19 . . . and the truth is far different from what you have heard from Dr. Anthony Fauci or in the media." |
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January 2019 |
| "…Medicare For All will not solve the problems that Medicare For Some created; instead, it will make things tremendously worse." |
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March 2022 |
| "How can we rebalance the current exorbitant costs of health care in the U.S, between greed and need?" |
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September 2001 |
| "Since the discovery of the gene responsible for HD [in 1993], scientists have made strides each year towards more-effective treatments and a possible cure." |
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September 2003 |
| Drug industry critics have gotten the issue almost entirely wrong. Their insistence on crude gov't intervention to lower drug prices, rather than dynamic market-based innovations to improve overall health, risks killing the goose that lays the golden eggs |
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July 2021 |
| A pair of studies at Ohio State University explore the effects statins and low-carb diets have on type 2 diabetes. |
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January 2003 |
| ". . . Researchers have been able to identify some promising chromosomal regions that may contain genes involved in autism." |
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March 2002 |
| "The short-term economic concerns of the livestock industry have tended to take precedence over the well-being of animals or the health of consumers." |
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May 2019 |
| "While the issue of universal coverage may be quite partisan…policy proposals based on broadening the use of a Medicaid-like or even Medicare-like rate structure may receive an increasingly receptive audience." |
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March 2003 |
| "The next time you read or hear about how Americans need to change their eating habits, remember this: A great exercise program can make up for a poor diet, but a great diet can never make up for a lack of exercise." |
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January 2001 |
| "Workers should be able to apply the money the boss is paying for health coverage to a plan of their own choosing--whatever kind that might be." |
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March 2014 |
| ". . . Patients lie to avoid negative consequences, to achieve secondary gain--such as individuals seeking disability payments for feigned illnesses--and to escape embarrassment or shame." |
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January 2014 |
| "As a financial counselor, I only can advise individuals to educate themselves, seek out the best value for their needs and their wallet, and go into this transaction--like any transaction--with their eyes open." |
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March 2020 |
| "What is needed are tools to predict what the disease is going to do in each patient . . .Basically . . . A tumor forecasting center." |
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May 2011 |
| There are various types of headaches, as well as considerable overlap of classifications and effective therapies. |
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May 2010 |
| "Mother Nature's potential threat may be, in the end, much greater than any destruction that could result from another world war, a nuclear bomb blast, or some heinous act of terrorism." |
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September 2011 |
| "Many people view sexual intercourse as a want, when, in fact, it is a need. The human body was designed to partake in sex and do so frequently." |
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July 2016 |
| "…Turnover rates for the health care industry often are higher than the national averages for other job sectors…" |
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November 2021 |
| "Everything about our current system is designed to resist agency in our dying. It can be hard to achieve the ending you want--harder than you think, but . . . It indeed is possible to finish as strong as we have lived." |
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July 2015 |
| "Gastric bypass and sleeve surgery … will take the hunger hormone off of your back so that your diet can work." |
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September 2009 |
| ". . . Why not strengthen medical care around the world in a manner that benefits the U.S. economy, American patients, and our trading partners abroad?" |
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May 2001 |
| To ensure that you bring nothing home from your travels but souvenirs, watch what you eat and steer clear of bugs that bite. |
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January 2014 |
| "Thanks to health reform and other disruptive forces, it is hard to know what lies over the horizon and tough to predict and plan for next month, let along next year." |
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March 2018 |
| "Can [coordinated care organizations] work anywhere? [They] certainly can improve things anywhere." |
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September 2018 |
| "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have." |
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July 2001 |
| "With an aging population, cardiovascular disease is likely to remain the number-one killer in this country." |
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January 2022 |
| "Most people do not realize all of the aspects of what hospice offers and that causes them to call . . . later than they should." |
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March 2005 |
| Your daughter "knows about terrorist attacks and school shootings. She talks about it more than you are comfortable with. . . . Is she becoming the nervous type or is this simply a symptom of stress?" |
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May 2021 |
| We need root-cause analysis and a blame-free paradigm to get all of the facts of the COVID pandemic out into the open. |
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November 2018 |
| " . . . At least we have one thing on our side--Stein's Law, named after the famous economist Herbert Stein: 'If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." |
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November 2003 |
| Patients must focus on the power of love and understanding, rather than the actual mechanics of lovemaking, to enjoy a life of intimacy once again. |
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September 2019 |
| "…A key public health goal is to develop a universal influenze vaccine that would protect against most or all seasonal strains of influenze virus and potential pandemic strains." |
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January 2022 |
| "Most COVID-19 patients' families are deliberately kept in the dark about what really is being done to their loved ones." |
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March 2019 |
| "…The black tide of psychosis and the red tide of violence are rising steadily, almost unnoticed, on a slow green wave [of cannabis use]." |
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November 2016 |
| Waste not, want not: diverted from the trash heap, unused, unopened quality medical supplies could prevent millions of deaths. |
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January 2020 |
| "…Many health-care providers critically undervalue the life of those with a disability where they deem treatment 'futile' or 'nonbeneficial'--oftentimes despite the wishes of the patient to the contrary." |
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January 2022 |
| Operation Warp Speed serves as a reminder of a time when government, used in a limited and targeted fashion to enable the nation's exceptionally capable and adaptive private sector, can achieve the seemingly impossible. |
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July 2002 |
| "Too many asthmatics in the U.S. die or go needlessly to emergency rooms because of improper disease management." |
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May 2012 |
| Caps on damages would reduce physicians' and insurance carriers' incentives to keep track of and reduce practice risk. |
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March 2019 |
| "Perhaps the best we can do…is to respect people's decisions about what kind of treatment works for them. 'It's your recovery,' one counselor explained. 'You are the one who drives the train.' " |
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November 2004 |
| "From every indication, there is no way that the administrative fees they are proposing are going to come close to covering the level of services that has been received by individuals with hemophilia in the past." |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . In the midst of the current opioid epidemic, many specialists believe the benefits of expanding lifesaving treatments, like methadone and buprenorphine, outweigh the diversion risks of these medications and suggest that they be deregulated." |
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May 2016 |
| "…Non-Hispanic white Americans aged 45-54 [have] experienced an unexpected, and highly significant, increase in mortality…" |
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November 2011 |
| While some might say no good can come from war, in the field of medicine, that is not necessarily the case. Significant advances are born out of necessity on the battlefield, and they often end up saving the lives of civilians. |
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July 2016 |
| "…Which is the better memory [for Andrew Madden]: the fact that he had a new heart, or that he threw out the first pitch at a World Series game?" |
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March 2017 |
| Before the arrival of the Trump Administration, 'the political elites…'disconnected' the natural regulatory mechanism of price signals and consumers making voluntary decisions about the use of their own money…" |
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January 2018 |
| "[MACRA is supposed] to address high medical costs and the need to improve quality of care. The legislation is very complex, containing even more pages than . . . ObamaCare." |
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May 2015 |
| "To ensure adequate protection of individual rights, we must ensure that no measure adopted by the state is allowed to trump the Fourteenth Amendment and, in the case of free exercise of religion against vaccination, First Amendment grounds." |
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July 2018 |
| "Americans need to look behind the 'rights' rhetoric, see the chains, and follow the money." |
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January 2014 |
| ". . . Is is time to stop awfulizing [and] break your [Patient Protection and] Affordable Care Act paralysis." |
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March 2014 |
| "Congress should work with the President to implement and support the best parts of the law while refining components that need improvement--and eliminate those that do not work." |
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July 2009 |
| "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." |
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July 2017 |
| "[Preferred Provider Organization Networks] often pay their doctors two to three times what Medicare pays, but it still looks like a significant discount on the explanation of benefits because the chargemaster or sticker prices for services is inflated…" |
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May 2019 |
| "[There are] several obstacles to access [assisstance], including the lack of medically supervised detox, length-of-stay restrictions, and regulations that make it easier to prescribe opioids then medication-assisted treatment…" |
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March 2011 |
| "The FDA has fulfilled its duty in its warning about a possible link between bisphosphonate drugs and atypical femur fractures." |
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January 2014 |
| ". . . The prospect of natural compounds being able to fight chemo-resistant cancer cells and reduce the need for large quantities of toxic drugs keeps everybody excited." |
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November 2017 |
| ". . . Stress usually brings with it stress sweat, which tends to be particularly stinky, staining, and embarrassing." |
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May 2018 |
| A doctor provides her backstory to the "unthinking, abusive, and illogical requirement" that health care providers face. |
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November 2015 |
| "The Obama Administration and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's defense of Planned Parenthood in the face of the revelations sharply reminds us that neither is possessed of even a modicum of deceny or respect for human life." |
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July 2019 |
| "…As far as supposedly vulnerable populations go, it appears black women have no trouble finding abortion providers: 40% [of abortions are performed] on black women despite the fact that black women of childbearing age make up only 14% of the population." |
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January 2022 |
| ". . . There no longer is a differentiation between a 'normal' and the time of COVID-19. The precautions that you will be taking now will be precautions for a long time." |
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November 2015 |
| "More than half of [Planned Parenthood's] budget comes from taxpayers, the majority of whom do not support abortion, especially late-term killing of viable babies." |
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September 2019 |
| "Not only should those with weakened immune systems gets flu shots, their families and caregivers should, too." |
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January 2017 |
| "Look at the broad spectrum of the many, many small and medium changes that are part of [ObamaCare] that are addressing gaps, that are addressing needs, and consider them carefully before making decisions about how to move forward with them." |
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September 2017 |
| "We should reject ObamaCare in totality, and 'replace' it not with additional government, but with no government at all." |
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May 2017 |
| "We had hopes that AHCA--if properly amended--would have been a wedge of freedom rather than a weigh station on the road to a full crony capitalistic government takeover. The ultimate goal must still be the resoration of a free market." |
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January 2012 |
| From new life to a life hanging by a thread, these little heroes saved their siblings before they even could crawl. |
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July 2013 |
| ". . . Stroke is more common in the older populations, but new data shows it can occur at any age, and the increase is greatest in the middle-aged and preretirement groups." |
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March 2018 |
| One successful model is direct primary care. Patients pay a monthly fee directly to the physician's office for 24/7 access and basic labs and medications, and receive steep discounts on radiology and pathology services. . . . |
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May 2017 |
| "The No.1 recommendation woul be for patients with high deductibles to hide any connection with an insurance company and negotiate the best cash prices for services." |
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September 2020 |
| Move over, Alexa and Siri: talking Mabu provides one-to-one support while relaying information to doctors. |
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May 2018 |
| "Although the human genome was mapped early last decade, we still don't know what a majority of human genes do." |
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March 2021 |
| "State, county, and local health departments have worked hard to develop facilities and programs to improve public health. Taking the final step of making sure those programs connect with the people who need them will have far-reaching benefits. . . . " |
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July 2007 |
| "[The surgeon] calmly advised me to have my ovaries removed--a procedure known as a prophylactic oophorectomy. It could be done by laparoscopy. [It] usually takes about 70 minutes. . . . I started to feel numb when he spoke to me." |
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November 2007 |
| Although Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Congress have other ideas, a perfect first step toward stopping the growth of govt health programs would be for lawmakers to curtail contributions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. |
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January 2002 |
| "It is clear that Medicare needs to be updated, but the question is how. What type of program will meet the needs of the 21st century?" |
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November 2018 |
| "Neither socialism nor corporatism is about serving individual patients--the collective or the corporation comes first. 'Health care' simply is the pretext for bringing revenue into the system." |
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March 2003 |
| "By observing what goes wrong at the very earliest stage of cell development, scientists will be able to get a genetic blueprint of a host of diseases and birth defects, then design interventions to cure them." |
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January 2006 |
| Carbs are good and fat can be our friend if we would just learn to make nice with these vital macronutrients. |
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September 2018 |
| A huge part of the health-care dollar is diverted to bureaucrats, compliance officers, administrators, CEOs, managed-care profits, middlemen such as pharmacy benefits managers, & other swamp dwellers who contribute nothing to the actual care of patients. |
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January 2016 |
| "If the brain is…cured of any condition, really cured, normalized, it will be by brain training, not by chemical manipulation." |
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May 2005 |
| Nearly two out of three Americans are overweight or obese, a 50% increase from a decade ago. More than 400,000 Americans will die this year from causes related to obesity, which is poised to overtake smoking as the leading cause of preventable death. |
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November 2009 |
| "After . . . I received the official diagnosis that I was a stage IV breast cancer patient, I realized that this was not a problem I could just simply eliminate: I had to learn how to live and cope with metastatic cancer." |
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November 2017 |
| "The extreme level of sweat production experienced with hyperhidrosis can disrupt all aspects of a student's life, from academic performance, recreational activities and relationships, to self-image and overall emotional well-being. . . . " |
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September 2007 |
| Type 2 Diabetes--the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and lower limb amputation, as well as one of the major risk factors for heart attack and stroke--now strikes every third person born in this country. |
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May 2018 |
| "We dread the day when algo-medicine--devoid of human emotion, intuition, or instinct--will determine who gets to live . . . Or die." |
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November 2016 |
| "…A good rule for responsible [state] legislators: if you do not fully understand the implications of a bill, vote no. Wait and see how it works out elsewhere." |
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November 2018 |
| "At a time when the movement toward innovative and personalized care is moving forward, care via government control is taking us backwards." |
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November 2020 |
| ". . . Patients need a trusted physician who shares their views [concerning early outpatient treatment for COVID-19]. If you do not have one, start looking--hard and right away." |
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March 2020 |
| "[Joint pain] probably is the most-commonly cited reason breast cancer patients stop taking [aromatase inhibitors] medication." |
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July 2005 |
| "It is up to us to identify existing health care needs, reach into communities where those needs are not being met, and find ways to alleviate existing suffering and despair." |
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September 2017 |
| We are moving toward the end-game of single payer. The system wants citizens to trade their freedom for the illusion of health care, but Americans soon will learn that freedom is of the greatest importance when life is at stake. |
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May 2018 |
| Genome sequencing will open up so much in terms of our ability to understand what drives tumor initiation & our ability to target it, prevent it, diagnose early, better monitor, diagnose relapses more quickly, stratify patients, & find novel treatments. |
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May 2012 |
| Many stroke survivors feel alienated and alone. The physical, emotional, and mental devastation that accompany a stroke, and the hard work and dedication that go into recuperation, are unlike any other medical experience. |
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November 2018 |
| Glioblastoma is very difficult to completely remove surgically because it's so diffuse in the brain. The blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain & its fluid, limits the drugs that can reach tumors, and glioblastoma is resistant to those that get in. |
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November 2009 |
| "Since the dawn of history, human beings have been looking for ways to slow or halt the aging process." |
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September 2015 |
| "Priorities are the same across industries--minimize risks and cut costs while making systems and processes function better. Just as the financial industry had to adjust to a move to electronic transactions, so, too, does the health care industry." |
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January 2004 |
| "The impact of the disease extends well beyond those who have it. . . . At least 70% of those stricken live at home, where their families provide 75% of the needed care." |
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November 2018 |
| "The curriculum [to become a doctor] now must have social justice as a 'core tenet of medical ethics,' teach about 'unconscious racism,' and include 30 core competencies for caring for LGBT patients." |
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July 2012 |
| The war on cancer has become a war dominated by friendly fire, where the medical troops fighting the battle more often than not kill the civilian patients they are supposed to protect. |
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January 2022 |
| "There are 24 countries and 16 states where [COVID] cases reached all-time highs after vaccine rollouts." |
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May 2009 |
| Our govt should take the steps necessary to let long term health insurance emerge in place of highly regulated pooling systems. The resulting competition would raise quality, lower costs, and spur innovation in both health care delivery and finance. |
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March 2011 |
| "During the Obama Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, always a threat to free speech in the market, has become an even greater one, thus complementing the efforts of the Food and Drug Administration." |
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September 2006 |
| "Finding out a friend or family member has a life-threatening illness can knock you off your foundations. . . . Many people have no idea what to do with the powerful emotions that well up." |
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March 2020 |
| ". . . Dementia is a syndrome, or a group of symptoms. Alzheimer's is a disease and the leading cause of dementia." |
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July 2018 |
| I knew something was wrong when my wife of 16 years called in a panic and said she was lost, even though she was on the street in our home town that she took to her office every day for years. |
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July 2003 |
| Actinic keratoses--small scaly lesions that feel like sandpaper to the touch--can progress to an invasive form of skin cancer if left untreated. |
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January 2019 |
| "If we are serious in our fight against opioids, then our approach must be altered. The solution is not necessarily to continue adding more treatment beds, but rather to make sure people have immediate access to the ones already there." |
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November 2019 |
| "In addition to a cure--or even a treatment that is effective for more ALS patients--a robust test for [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] sorely is needed. For that to occur, scientists have to find a reliable biomarker of the disease." |
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November 2009 |
| "The bitter irony is that [NBC New correspondent] David [Bloom] did lose his life in the sand-blown heat of [the Iraqi] war, but the killer was neither a bullet nor a bomb. He died from complications of Deep Vein Thrombosis. . . ." |
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November 2009 |
| "Most [sufferers] do not even know they have it because they may have been told they have Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease . . . or even that their condition is a result of an aging brain and nothing can be done about it." |
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May 2015 |
| "… We should not lose sight of the fact that this was - and remains - a bad law. It leaves U.S. health care worse off and the American people less free. It might not be as bad as it might have been, but it is certainly bad enough." |
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January 2010 |
| "Sleep needs and patterns might be unique to each individual, but the typical thieves of restful slumber are not." |
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January 2016 |
| "While most of us know how to reach for products that are naturally based, product labels can be deceiving. Natural, as it turns out, is not always so." |
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January 2020 |
| "High tech is wonderful and incresingly capable but, if the stethoscope is dying, so is the art of clinical medicine." |
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May 2019 |
| "the focus on palliative care and lowering costs by reducing 'aggressive' end-of-liffe treatment is one more incremental under-the-radar step along the road to government control over life and death." |
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May 2008 |
| "Subtle sideways glances, frank stares, bold questions, the refusal to take an offered hand, dropped eye contact, and turned heads--the slights an hurts accumulate quickly." |
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September 2017 |
| "The only true competitor to our health insurers are the employers who self-fund health care for their employees." |
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July 2018 |
| ". . . Rationing systems devalue the benefits the disabled, elderly, or others with a lower life expectancy could receive from a given treatment." |
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Medicine & Health |
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January 2009 |
| "The drug rituximab . . . has shown, at least in preliminary tests, that it can fight the most common form of multiple sclerosis: relapsing-remitting MS." |
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March 2008 |
| "Each piece of art allows you to discover the patient's personal health histories and the courage necessary to cope with the healing process." |
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Medicine & Health |
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September 2016 |
| "I don’t want to have a baby right now but, ever since my relationship ended, the pressure has been growing to find Mr. Right. It hasn't happened yet, and I feel it's time to consider my options…" |
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Medicine & Health |
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January 2010 |
| "It seemed as if my femure had broken before I hit the floor [but] I had no reason to believe that the sudden collapse of my leg was related in any way to the [bisphosphonates] I had taken for osteoporosis." |
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Medicine & Health |
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January 2020 |
| "Camparison shopping is one pillar of bringing sanity to the high cost of medical care, but the opacity of the pricing system for medical costs limits the value of posting list prices to encourage lower costs through shaming, compteition, and choice." |
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Medicine & Health |
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May 2011 |
| A red-blooded medical challenge: creating a safer treatment to counteract the effect of blood thinners. |
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Medicine & Health |
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May 2019 |
| "Doctors may advise, or patients may choose, a course that is harmful but, if governmental authorities, imbued with a sense of infallibility, impose their will on everyone, the consequences of a bad choice affect millions." |
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Medicine & Health |
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March 2001 |
| "Men and women are realizing that short-term diets do not work, but making long-term lifestyle commitments to better eating and regular physical activity can result in successful weight loss." |
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Medicine & Health |
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November 2001 |
| ". . . Web-based technologies are spawning an entirely new business model for the health care industry, which must continually find new and better ways to function efficiently if it is to prosper in the yeas ahead." |
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Medicine & Health |
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September 2019 |
| "…How will our actual medical care and health--as opposed to our health insurance card--be affected?" |
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Medicine & Health |
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September 2006 |
| If called upon to help those walking the anguished path of grief, will we know what to do to help ease their pain and alienation? |
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Medicine & Health |
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November 2016 |
| "[The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] lopped $716,000,000,000 out of the Medicare budget. Cuts in seniors' care are to pay for expanded Medicaid for younger people, including free contraception and taxpayer-funded abortions." |
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Medicine & Health |
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May 2012 |
| Making the appointments took hours. Call. Get transferred. Transferred again. Wrong department. Get disconnected. Get an appointment months away. Get primary doctor to call to make it sooner. Call back. Lunch break. Transferred. Wrong department. |
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Medicine & Health |
Published: |
May 2003 |
| Many "misperceptions and stigma abound, adding to the problems that female epileptics face." |
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Medicine & Health |
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January 2018 |
| "Exercise videos could be powerful tools to combat childhood inactivity-related diseases and may improve in-class behavior." |
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Medicine & Health |
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July 2010 |
| ". . . It's not about how much you have or how big you are; It's about whay you do. . . . United, we can end malaria." |
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