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Health & Wellness

Let’s get moving on AI-discovered treatments

By STEVEN ZECOLA Recursion Pharmaceuticals announced results today for one its AI-discovered treatments. I was pleased to see the large, sustai...

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Slaying The Dragon

By MIKE MAGEE The date was June 9, 1954. This was over a year after Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had assumed the chairmanshi...

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Let’s Check the Math on Health Subsidies

By KIM BELLARD It’s December 3, and, to no one’s surprise, Congress still has not acted on extending the expanded health care premium tax credi...

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Farewell to Medicare Advantage

By JEFF GOLDSMITH This morning, after twelve years, I dumped my Medicare Advantage plan and enrolled in a Medicare Supplement policy. My smolde...

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Why Patients – And Many Innovative Doctors – Are Pursuing Health Outside the System

By DAVID SHAYWITZ Our current system of delivering care is awful from the perspective of seemingly every stakeholder. It frustrates, enrages, sa...

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If You Could read My Mind – Wait, You Can?

By KIM BELLARD Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it wa...

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Giving Thanks – Ken Burns “THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION”

By MIKE MAGEE Give thanks for our America, blemishes and all. Ken Burns says as much, making it clear, we are a mess of contradictions, and tha...

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When Drug Price Transparency Isn’t Enough

By KRISTINA SMITH & PHIYEN NGUYEN Policymakers and advocates often promote drug price transparency to lower costs and improve equity. Whi...

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Struggling UnitedHealth Group is a Huge Smoking Black Box

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In mid-April 2025, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) reported its 1Q25 operating results, including a modest shortfall in expected ear...

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Support your neighborhood scientist

By KIM BELLARD These are, it must be said, grim times for American science. Between the Trump budget cuts, the Trump attacks on leading researc...

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A Failure to Rescue: How Predictive Modeling Can Rewrite the Story of Congenital Syphilis

By KAYLA KELLY Every semester I have the privilege of guiding nursing students through their maternal and pediatric clinicals. At the beginnin...

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When Your Cloud Provider Doesn’t Understand HIPAA: A Cautionary Tale

By JACOB REIDER & JODI DANIEL Jacob: I recently needed to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with one of the large hosting provide...