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Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid?
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The Borderlands (both sides) looked resplendent today. What a fine part of the world.
#scotland #england #scottishborders #northumberland #dailywalk #lawyer #law #scotslaw #scotslawyer #rural #ruralbusiness #healthcare #nhs #renewables #propertydevelopment #photography #andydrane
The good news: We have a breakthrough cure for sickle-cell disease, using CRISPR and gene-editing technology.
The bad news: It’s owned by a private company that will charge $2.2M for a course of treatment.
Pharmaceutical research should be publicly-funded, and its results should go directly into public domain, where private providers can compete on price for manufacture and distribution. For a fraction of the money we spend on missiles and remote military bases, we can save so many lives instead.
“FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR”
#healthcare #medicine #capitalism
FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR
The FDA approved a new treatment for sickle cell disease. The therapy is first to use the ground-editing tool CRISPR.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
"Incentives matter!"
"Goodhart's Law holds that 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'"
"Give an MBA within HCA a metric ("get patients out of bed quicker") and they will find a way to hit that metric ("send patients off to die somewhere else, even if their doctors think they could recover")"
From: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/
This is so depressing, @pluralistic ☹️
A nation that fails to keep its citizens alive is a failing nation. That is the US today.
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #Health #healthcare #cancer #Cancers
https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/say-no-to-pesticides
Europe: say no to pesticides!
Uncovered: the pesticide industry’s dirty dealings to keep feeding Europe’s pesticide addiction.act.wemove.eu
Gender-affirming care—for ADULTS—is now predictably under attack in #Texas. This is part of a Republican plan of genocide underway against #trans people. We need cis allies to be loud and angry on our behalf. Pay attention, this doesn't end here or with us:
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/transgender-health-care-legislature/ via @texastribune
#LGBTQIA+ #transgender #transphobia #HumanRights #Healthcare #news #Politics #TXlege #USpol #gender
Trans Texans’ access to transition-related care threatened by Senate bill
The Senate advanced a bill that could create such high financial risks for doctors and health insurers that they’d stop providing or covering gender-affirming care — even for adults.Alex Nguyen (The Texas Tribune)
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#Healthcare #Mortality
The Broken U.S. Healthcare System, Long COVID, and Its Disproportionate Impact on Women
I had previously written about the failure of the United States healthcare system when it comes to caring for pregnant and postnatal women in “The Maternal Mortality Rate in the U.S. is Worsening—E…Dr. Nancy Wayne
The big robbery.
#Healthcare #HealthcareThieves #HealthcareIndustry #PriceGouging #Ripoff #FairPricing