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Political Leaders Continue to Spread Disinformation and Advocate Policies and...

The coronavirus pandemic in the US seems past its third peak, but daily case rates have now plateaued at a level similar to the last peak.  While hospitals and health care professionals are not totally...

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A Few Leaders of Big Health Care Corporations Hesitate in Their Support of...

 Some recent but not well publicized articles suggests how big health care corporations are still enabling some of the worst aspects of health care and larger political economic...

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Disinformation: a Medical Meditation. Dander At Half Mast.

Are there no foes for me to face?Must I not stem the flood?Verse 3, Isaac Watts (1674-1748),"Am I Not a Soldier of the Cross?"IntroductionIn what follows I expand on our ongoing series—most recently...

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Guest Post: Advocating Restoring the Leadership of Hospitals by Medical...

Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr. Gene Dorio.  Dr Dorio  is a geriatric physician from the Santa Clarita Valley in California,  providing house calls to older adults.  He has been an...

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The Plot Thickens - How Corrupt was the Trump Administration Under Which...

This week, reports appeared that former US President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization of which he is the principal owner, and other people connected to the Trump Organization are the subjects of a...

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FDA Approval of Aducanumab

Almost twenty years ago, I was a volunteer nursing-home ombudsman. The doctor at the nursing home I visited was a huge proponent of preventive therapies, and prescribed as many preventive drugs as...

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Aducanumab Approval, Part 2

So how did a drug with such dubious benefit get approved? At best, another clinical trial might be warranted, but certainly not approval. It's a result of a huge campaign by a company (Biogen) that...

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Leadership of Big Health Care Corporations Go Back to Financially Supporting...

At one time, leadership of large health corporations were circumspect in their financial support for US politicians and political causes. They provided some funds directly to politicians and poltical...

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The Future of Aducanumab - as a Medicine and as a Financial Product - What...

To recap: the FDA recently (and foolishly) approved Biogen's monoclonal antibody aducanumab as a treatment for Alzheimer's. It did this on the basis of a surrogate endpoint, amyloid plaque reduction,...

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Money and Aducanumab

In my previous posts, I haven't talked too much about the price set for aducanumab. Since I think it should not have been approved on current evidence regardless of price, the approval has been my...

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More Large Health Care Corporations Are Again Funding Politicians Who...

Introduction: Health Care Corporations' Political Contributions: From Bipartisan to Trumpian  At one time, leadership of large health corporations were circumspect in their financial support for US...

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On the primacy of the physician-patient relationship, from an unlikely source...

I have not written much at this site, or any site, in recent years due to being kept busy supporting litigation regarding bad healthcare information technology as an expert witness.A recent letter,...

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The New New Abnormal: What Should We Do in a World Becoming Increasingly...

We Health Care Renewal (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com) bloggers once again apologize for our chronic lack of posting on the blog. However, we remain perplexed about what contribution to make on now an...

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The Irresponsibility of Political Leaders Encouraging Vaccine Resistance by...

[Below is the text of a letter to the editor I wrote to the Providence Journal about one state legislator who praised the "joyful" resistance of health care professionals to vaccination.  It was...

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Guest Blog: Susan Levenstein, MD, on the Omicron Variant

 Introduction.To encourage wider dissemination, we're pleased to provide here an author-abridged and -authorized version of a recent number of the Stethoscope on Rome blog by Susan Levenstein, MD. A...

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The New Business Coup? Increasing Evidence that Large Health Care...

Introduction: Health Care Corporations' Political Contributions: From Bipartisan to Trumpian  At one time, leadership of large health corporations were circumspect in their financial support for US...

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Haunted by the Impunity of Rich Business Leaders - Will One Criminal...

 Impunity: an Introduction We believe that unaccountable leadership is a major cause of health care dysfunction.  Impunity is an extreme form of unaccountable leadership. We have noted that despite...

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In Memoriam: Ahnold, Our Faithful Watchdog Mascot

 RIP, April 10, 2023

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Introducing the Threats to Democracy Roundups

 We started Health Care Renewal in 2004 to address the worsening dysfunction in health care, primarily in the US.  We were aboutAddressing threats to health care's core values, especially those...

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Threats to Democracy Round Up

 Influence of hostile foreign powers[Like the late 1930s or peak of the cold war] Russian spy network operating in North Sea- spy ships disguised as fishing vessels to monitor potential sabotage...

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Who Cares If Hunter Biden Owns a Laptop? Red Herrings and Reflexive Control

 Introduction: Propaganda and Disinformation in Health Care and Elsewhere We used to write about propaganda and disinformation used to promote health care goods and services (stealth marketing...

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Threats to Democracy Round Up - Early May, 2023

Influence of Hostile Foreign PowersReminders of how the US home-grown anti-democratic movement has been egged on by hostile foreign powers, chiefly Russia:- How tied to Russia much of the far-right in...

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Threats to Democracy Round Up - Selected Topics, Late May, 2023

Influence of Hostile Foreign PowersWe have previously posted lots of words about the anechoic effect: the lack of echoes produced by seemingly important stories about health care dysfunction.  It...

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Threats to Democracy Round Up - Selected Topics, Early June, 2023

 Influence of Hostile Foreign PowersThink about the implications of having hostile, authoritarian foreign powers trying to disrupt democracy by means overt and covert. Think about the accumulating...

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Trump's Higher Impunity Revisited

Introduction - the New York Times Notes Trump's History of Impunity In today's New York Times, and article entitled "New Trump Charges Highlight Long-Running Questions About Obstruction" touched on...

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