When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.
#Idaho Banned #Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.
Since the #SupremeCourt overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum #Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
#Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the #Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him.
This Is How They Did It.
A #Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival.
In South Carolina, administrators at a large teaching hospital quietly decided to bow to political pressure and abruptly end all treatment for gender dysphoria for anyone under 18.
Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, study finds.
Politico reports: "The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, 'despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits.'"
#37c3 is over and now it is probably the right moment to ask how you #health status changed because of travelling to/from the event and/or joining the congress in person. #mask#ffp2#ffp3
Please note, it's not about #COVID only. At my last Congress, I missed 1½ days because of #Congressseuche and this was long before COVID.
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How a #BigPharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving #Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
A vaccine against #tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives.
But its development slowed after its corporate owner #GSK focused on more profitable vaccines.
It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food (www.wired.com)
Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin (phys.org)
For the first time in the world researchers at Tel Aviv University have encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA (messenger RNA) molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin—which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.