The following is an excerpt from MedPage Today. An Arkansas psychiatrist is being sued by more than 25 patients and has been eyed by that state’s attorney general for his role in an alleged scheme that involved holding patients against […]
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The following is from Paul D. Thacker’s The DisInformation Chronicle. Internal communications finding that virologists did not believe the conclusions they published in a prestigious journal has triggered scientists to circulate a petition calling for Nature Medicine to retract the influential “Proximal
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The following is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). New CDC reports show that alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a tick bite-associated food allergy, is an emerging clinical and public health concern;
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The following is an excerpt from Earthjustice. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today [7/21/23] affirmed its May 2022 decision to allow the ongoing use of phthalates, a class of toxic chemicals, in food packaging and food production equipment. Health
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The following is from MedPage Today. Just a single dose of psilocybin was safe and tolerable for adult women with anorexia, according to a phase I open-label feasibility study. After receiving a 25-mg dose of synthetic psilocybin given with therapist-delivered
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Originally aired: January 29, 2023 The alarm is being sounded at hospitals across the country in critical condition due to staffing shortages. There’s an important side of that story seldom heard: the role that Covid vaccine mandates played in those
The following is from MedPage Today. TikTok has finally landed on a word to describe that most guilty of everyday pleasures — lying in bed and doing nothing. It’s called “bed rot.” According to one user (a self-proclaimed “expert long before TikTok”),
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The following is an excerpt from Becker’s Hospital Review. Public health emergency funding during the Covid-19 pandemic helped hospitals’ net operating margins hit an all-time high, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum July 14. The study examined national RAND
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