- Can a nanotechnology patch help you win tennis games?
- When the progressives were really in power: Bob Graboyes on the eugenics movement.
- Site-neutral reforms could reduce federal spending by up to $279 billion, patient costs by $137 billion in Medicare and up to $466 billion in the private sector, and national health expenditures by up to $672 billion.
- More bad news on woke medical schools.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Old News: Doctors of Osteopathy Are Physicians Too
Kaiser Health News (KHN) ran an article titled, As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack. It’s about osteopaths working in rural America. I know several Doctors of Osteopathy (DOs). I also know quite a few Doctors of Medicine (MDs). In fact, I have relatives who are both MDs and DOs. I call this old news because the divisions between the two similar, but slightly different medical societies were patched long ago.
No Need for Alarm over Medicaid Disenrollment
Per the Urban Institute, as of April 2023, there were about 18 million ineligible people enrolled in Medicaid. The approximate annual cost of ineligible enrollees: $100 billion or more.
[That’s about $1,000 for every household in America.]
Why Don’t Some Promising Drugs Come to Market?
Earlier this year I wrote about bacteriophages, naturally-occurring antibiotics that are not widely available. Phases, as they’re called, are viruses found in nature that kill bacteria. Each is highly specific, killing only one kind of bacteria. That is (possibly) why pharmaceutical companies haven’t shown a lot of interest in developing them as antibiotic drug therapies. Drug companies would need to develop a different bacteriophage therapy for each pathogen targeted. Although mostly ignored by Western drug companies, phages were common in former Soviet-bloc countries. The following is an article about a rare, drug-resistant bacteria that affected Gulf War soldiers treatable only by phages.