Patients Without Borders: The Rise of Medical Tourism
"In the five years that Hickory Springs Manufacturing has begun offering to send its employees abroad for medical treatment, the company has saved over $10 million on health care costs."
Mom Brings Coughing 10-Month-Old to the Hospital. Days Later, Cops Take the Baby.
"This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn't confined to Minnesota."
Foster parents of separated immigrant children ‘don’t know how much worse it could be’
"'Many kids are having nightmares, can't eat, can't sleep ... don't know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear ... the memory never goes away.'"
Monsanto weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show
"The FDA has had trouble finding any food that does not carry traces of the pesticide."
Google AI uses electronic health records to predict your death with 95% accuracy
"Google applied artificial intelligence to a vast amount of data from more than 216,000 adult patients hospitalized for at least 24 hours each in two medical centers."
The States Could Reform Obamacare If Only We Would Let Them
"The cause of the most serious problems in Obamacare can be summarized in a single word: Dumping. Group plans are dumping their sickest, most costly enrollees on the individual market. Within that market, health plans are dumping their most costly enrollees on each other. And individuals are dumping costs on other individuals by waiting to insure until they get sick."
LSD and magic mushrooms could heal damaged brain cells in depression
"Tryptamines, DMT and magic mushrooms, amphetamines, including MDMA, and ergolines, like LSD consistently boosted brain connections."
Oklahoma Expected to Become Latest Medical Marijuana State by Month’s End
"It’s the culmination of a long, arduous effort to legalize medical marijuana in the Sooner state."
It’s official: Medicare trust fund will run out of money in 8 years
"Who is going to bail out the government?"