Category: Healthcare

Prenatal testing is about to make being pregnant a lot more stressful — Quartz

Source: Prenatal testing is about to make being pregnant a lot more stressful — Quartz

The anxiety-inducing experiences of some women, coupled with the extensive marketing and commercial success of some non-invasive pregnancy testing, has experts worried.

A positive result is 79% likely to be wrong.

Indeed, manufacturers often say it’s up to doctors to inform women. But doctors may not understand these stats either. In a recent study quizzing MDs and medical students on the mathematics of screening tests, three-quarters of respondents answered incorrectly.

Michigan doctor launches campaign to end non-medical vaccination waivers | MLive.com

A Michigan doctor has launched a campaign to strengthen the state’s vaccination law by eliminating religious and philosophical waivers to vaccination for children attending school, preschool or daycare.

Michigan is one of a handful of states that allows parents to opt out of mandatory immunization for their children attending schools or daycares by citing religious or philosophical reasons.

Nearly half of the state’s population lives in counties with kindergarten vaccination rates below the level needed to prevent contagious diseases from spreading.

Source: Michigan doctor launches campaign to end non-medical vaccination waivers | MLive.com

Medicare and Medicaid at 50: Time to Check Fiscal Health – Barron’s

Medicare and Medicaid consume more than one-third of health-care spending in the U.S. Is that too little or too much?

the size of the U.S. health-care problem: If we could create a system that provided a Dutch level of benefits for a Dutch level of spending, all of our nation’s fiscal problems would vanish.

Source: Medicare and Medicaid at 50: Time to Check Fiscal Health – Barron’s

The “Food Babe” Blogger Is Full of Shit

Vani Hari, AKA the Food Babe, has amassed a loyal following in her Food Babe Army. … She and her army are out to change the world.

She’s also utterly full of shit.

Source: The “Food Babe” Blogger Is Full of Shit

 

It is illegal to poison someone in order to sell them an antidote. However, you can legally instill fear and uncertainty in people for any reason you like, including in order to sell them *more fear and uncertainty*.