Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Norwegian Lightning Process Trial Ejects Questioning Participant
By David Tuller, DrPH The administrators of a controversial study of the Lightning Process currently being conducted in Norway have ejected a participant who expressed critical views about the biopsychosocial approach to ME, according to MELivet [MELife], Nina Steinkopf’s invaluable blog. This decision appears to be an acknowledgement that the intervention only works if you … Trial By Error: Norwegian Lightning Process Trial Ejects Questioning Participant Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 5, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Crawley Lightning Process Nina Steinkopf norway Source Type: blogs
Viruses and Bats
by Gertrud U. Rey Remember the series of flashbacks in the ending of the movie “Contagion,” which reveal where the virus originated and how the pandemic started? As a tree is cut down, a colony of bats flies out of the tree to seek new shelter. While in flight over a nearby farm, one of … Viruses and Bats Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 5, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey ACE2 bat bats contagion coronavirus emergence emerging virus furin cleavage site host range outbreak pandemic reservoir reservoir host SARS SARS-CoV SARS-CoV-2 spillover surveillance zoono Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Celine Corsius – In Memorium
By David Tuller, DrPH Céline Corsius, a 32-year-old from the Netherlands, died through euthanasia on September 18th after suffering with ME for 22 years. For the last seven years, she was confined to her bed, lying in the dark. Even so, her health situation continued to deteriorate. She was cared for by her parents, Iselle … Trial By Error: Celine Corsius–In Memorium Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 1, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized corsius euthanasia Netherlands Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Celine Corsius – In Memoriam
By David Tuller, DrPH Céline Corsius, a 32-year-old from the Netherlands, died through euthanasia on September 18th after suffering with ME for 22 years. For the last seven years, she was confined to her bed, lying in the dark. Even so, her health situation continued to deteriorate. She was cared for by her parents, Iselle … Trial By Error: Celine Corsius–In Memoriam Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 1, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized corsius euthanasia Netherlands Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve posted two past interviews with David Putrino (here and here) about long Covid, ME/CFS, and related issues. Dr Putrino, a neuroscientist and physical therapist, is director of rehabilitation innovation at the Mt Sinai Health System in New York. Early in the pandemic, he began seeing patients with prolonged symptoms following … Trial By Error: David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 29, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Iwasaki Long Covid nature Putrino vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Inexplicable irrationality
For mysterious reasons, there have been anti-vaccination movements since vaccination was invented.* The eradication of smallpox from the earth; the near eradication of polio (which terrified the population in the 1950s); and the near elimination of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, typhus and other diseases which formerly maimed and killed many children; and many other triumphs ought to have convinced people that vaccination was an unalloyed benefit to humanity. But somehow it ' s profitable to deny this obvious reality.The near miraculous success of the Covid 19 vaccines turns out to be one more opportunity for charlat...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Media Notes – Hasan Presses Fauci on Long Covid; Rehmeyer on Psych Diagnoses; Washington Post Explores Backstory of Recent Study
By David Tuller, DrPH MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan can be a bulldog as an interviewer. He recently pressed Dr Anthony Fauci on the US government’s flat-footed response to the wave of long Covid cases. Dr Fauci came across as somewhat on the defensive and acknowledged that progress has been slow. He agreed that clinical trials … Trial By Error: Media Notes–Hasan Presses Fauci on Long Covid; Rehmeyer on Psych Diagnoses; Washington Post Explores Backstory of Recent Study Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 23, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized fauci mehdi hassan Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Interview with Yale ’ s Akiko Iwasaki
By David Tuller, DrPH Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, is a leading investigator into long Covid and has recently been tapped to lead a new Center for Infection & Immunity. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, … Trial By Error: An Interview with Yale’s Akiko Iwasaki Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 21, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Akiko Iwasaki Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Physiotherapist ’ s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH A new book, A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS, has arrived at a timely moment. With so many long Covid patients being diagnosed with ME or ME/CFS, it is essential that physiotherapists—or physical therapists, in the US—grasp the essentials of the disease, and in particular the existence of post-exertional … Trial By Error: A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Understanding and Managing ME/CFS Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 19, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized book physical therapy physios for ME physiotherapy Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Talk at Cambridge Last October on “ Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘ Medically Unexplained Symptoms'”
By David Tuller, DrPH I gave a talk at Cambridge University last October called “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms.'” More accurately, I gave the same talk on two successive days—October 18th and 19th–because of video malfunctions on the first day. I thought I’d written a post about it, but when I … Trial By Error: My Talk at Cambridge Last October on “Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms'” Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized cambridge Medically unexplained symptoms MUS sleight-of-hand Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Interview with Journalist Betsy Ladyzhets about NIH ’ s Flawed $1.2 Billion RECOVER Program for Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Betsy Ladyzhets is an independent health, science and data journalist who has been covering the coronavirus pandemic, including long Covid. While serving as a journalism fellow at MuckRock, she co-wrote an investigative report for STAT, a well-known health and medical news site, about the US National Institutes of Health’s problem-plagued $1.2 … Trial By Error: Interview with Journalist Betsy Ladyzhets about NIH’s Flawed $1.2 Billion RECOVER Program for Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 12, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Ladyzhets NIH RECOVER program STAT Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Letter to Journal about Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence
By David Tuller, DrPH I have spent some time trying to correct the record on the reported prevalence of functional neurological disorder (FND). As I have documented, leaders of the FND field have spent the last decade misrepresenting the findings of a seminal 2010 study, Stone et al, to claim that this diagnosis is the … Trial By Error: Letter to Journal about Inflated Claims of FND Prevalence Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized correction david perez FND functional neurological disorder neuroImage: clinical Source Type: blogs
How the Viruses Within Us Protect Us From Other Viruses
by Gertrud U. Rey Did you know that eight percent of the human genome consists of DNA sequences that are derived from retroviruses? These “endogenous retroviruses” (ERVs) represent concrete evidence for retroviral infections that occurred in our ancestors. Although ERVs have no viral activity, an accumulating body of evidence suggests that they are not entirely … How the Viruses Within Us Protect Us From Other Viruses Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey adaptive immunity endogenous retrovirus ERV evolution herv HIV-1 HLA immune response innate immunity PAMP PRR receptor interference RIG-I TLR Source Type: blogs
