- OpenEvidence’s A.I. app, essentially a chatbot for medicine, has become a viral hit with physicians. (NYT)
- Even some people with normal body weight by B.M.I. standards could be considered to have obesity.
- RFK Jr.: Make french fries great again.
- “Give us a ransom payment of $5,000 or we will harvest your son’s kidney and sell it.”
- This Ebola outbreak threatens to be the worst in history.
Category: Health Reform
Is Abortion the Solution to Down Syndrome?
A popular YouTuber set off a bombshell of controversy when he shared news about his wife’s pregnancy on social media. Jesse Ridgway announced his wife’s amniocentesis tested positive for Trisomy 21. Their baby would be born with Down syndrome. They made the decision to abort the fetus due to the prospect of raising a child with lifelong disability.
A quick and easy way to stop Medicaid fraud
Medicaid has been plagued with fraud for decades. But recent revelations indicate that the fraud isn’t just widespread — it is rampant. Fortunately, there is a way to stop the fraud, and it is one that Republicans have been proposing for decades.