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Health & Wellness

The price of Ozempic is a meaningless phrase

By JOHN SAMARAS Ask what Ozempic costs. The honest answer runs from $25 a month to $1,100 a month, and every number in that range is real, publ...

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Value Is in the Eye of the Beholder

By KIM BELLARD The most (unintentionally) amusing story I read this week was Tim Higgin’s Wall Street Journal article Alex Karp Is Saying What...

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The wrong people are scared of clinical AI

By CRAIG HAUBEN Ask anyone outside healthcare who resists clinical AI and you’ll get a confident answer. The older doctors. The ones who spent...

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How Online Prescription Services Are Closing the Access Gap for Patients Who Skip the Doctor’s Office

By DAMIAN WONJO Every clinician keeps a private list of the patients they don’t see. Not the ones who cancel, the ones who never book. The shif...

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A ridiculously stupid letter from a health insurer

By MATTHEW HOLT It’s hard to imagine but I may now be in possession of the stupidest letter I’ve ever received from an American health insuranc...

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Life Not As We Know It

By KIM BELLARD Well, let’s see. Last week much of the U.S. and parts of Europe were under a crippling heat dome. The U.S. celebrated its 250th...

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AI and Professional Nursing: On a Collision Course

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In his wonderful and pragmatic new book, A Giant Leap, Dr. Robert Wachter cautions his professional colleagues that simply co...

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July 4, 1862

By MIKE MAGEE When I asked my brilliant literary agent, Jill Kneerim, when I would know that my book proposal  was ready for submission, she re...

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How The Patient Rights Revolution Builds on America’s 1776 One

By MICHAEL MILLENSON It took 129 years for the inalienable rights proclaimed in America’s Declaration of Independence to apply to the rights of...

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The ‌Missing ‌Vital ‌Sign: Why Modern Medicine Still Won’t Measure Sleep

By COLIN LAWLOR A patient comes in for an ordinary primary care appointment. The nurse runs through the usual checklist: temperature, blood pre...

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What Is Breast Cancer?

Source: National Cancer Institute - Related MedlinePlus Pages: Breast Cancer

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Good News: Teen Pregnancies Hit New Low In the US

By MIKE MAGEE Last week, policy wonks from the right and the left, finally found a topic they could agree on – Kids are no longer having (as ma...