…Drug Administration, is a contrarian. Near the end of the Johns Hopkins professor of medicine’s latest book, “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our…

The whittlin’ demands an immense budget. Perspectives: Chart 3: FY 2008 outlays: Defense Discretionary 20.5%: Non Defense Discretionary 20.8% : Social Security Medicare/Medic Aid 20.1%: Other Mandatory 12.8%: Interest 7.9%…

…with additional medical evidence, which is most often gleaned through what’s known as a compensation and pension (C&P) exam, where medical staff pore over military health records and conduct tests…

…to veterans, This time by the Trump administration. I go to commercial healthcare due to availability of care. “US veteran’s agency lost thousands of ‘core’ medical staff under Trump, records…

Mark Thoma responds to the meme that the social safety net encourages bad behavior overall: The idea that the unemployment problem is due to lack of effort on behalf of…

…a label that is not great if one looks at it closely. That is because, frankly, Medicare by itself sucks. It is crappy coverage. Pretty much everybody actually on Medicare…

…of whether hydroxychloroquine should be prescribed off label based on the in vitro results is not the same as the question of should we be confident that it will work…

Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…which people can Google that wants us to pay $350 to be able to put their label on our packaging. But nobody knows who the hell they are, and this…

…models of this sort by the late Richard Goodwin, who had a Marx-influenced predatory model of class struggle cyclical fluctuations. Their early models were labeled as Kynes-Wicksell-Goodwin (KWG) models. But…