QUESTIONS ASKING FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL ADVICE ARE OFF-TOPIC. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN. Healthcare refers to the system or systems used to deliver medical care to patients. It may be a monolithic, government controlled system (like the NHS in some parts of the UK) or a mixed system of providers and insurers (as in the US). Healthcare is the way the delivery of medical science is organised (at least for the purposes of tagging on this site).
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Does "Obamacare" require the disclosure of medical records to the government?
According to an article from Capitalism Magazine,
ObamaCare is perhaps the ultimate in busybody politics. People who have never even run a drugstore, much less a hospital, blithely prescribe what must be done by the entire medical system, from…
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Is cognitive-behavioural therapy the only kind of psychotherapy based on sound scientific evidence?
Is cognitive-behavioural therapy the only kind of psychotherapy supported by sound scientific evidence? This article makes such claim, which I've found surprising:
Psychotherapeutic interventions in general have been remarkably unsuccessful. Only…
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Are *some* Democrats talking about ending pre-existing condition protections?
At a rally in Rochester, Minnesota on Thursday, Donald Trump stated
Republicans want to protect Medicare for our great seniors who have earned it and they have paid for it. And we will always protect Americans with pre-existing conditions, we are…
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Is at least $70 million in health care costs in the USA directly attributable to low literacy?
According to the Gaston Literacy Council of Gastonia, North Carolina:
Reports show that low literacy directly costs the healthcare industry over $70 million every year.
That website does not provide a specific citation for that assertion, but does…
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Have fewer children with Down Syndrome been born in the United States?
According to this 2009 ABC News article the number of children born with Down Syndrome has dropped in the USA:
In the absence of prenatal testing, the United States would have experienced a 34 percent increase in the number of Down births between…
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Are Doctors in the USA forbidden from recommending natural health therapies?
A page on the Institute for Vibrant Living website states the following:
Doctors are generally aware of what complementary medicine has to
offer; in fact, they are better educated than most people about both
orthodox and alternative medicine…
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Did more than 10 million people get health insurance due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?
The Huffington Post claims:
More Than 10 Million People Got Insurance Because Of Obamacare, Feds Say
The number of Americans without health insurance declined by 10.3 million because of Obamacare enrollment, according to a report from the…
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Is Walter Reed not able to handle the number of Havana Syndrome patients?
Journalist Julia Ioffe just said this in a Puck News article:
Meanwhile, the number of government employees suffering from Havana Syndrome has jumped from a couple dozen to a couple hundred. Some reports place the figure of affected government…
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Do hand sanitizers need to be higher than 60% alcohol to be efficacious against SARS-CoV-2?
According to JV Chamary, PhD, in a July 2020 Forbes article
The CDC's recommendation to use hand sanitizer with at least 60% ethanol is wrong with reference to Coronavirus, and its guidelines need updating.
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At concentration of 60%,…
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Are women who have consulted a social worker banned from most maternity wards in Christchurch?
A Kiwi friend alerted me to the article 'At-risk' women forced to birth at Christchurch Women's Hospital, or at home at Stuff.co.nz, published November 7, 2020.
The article seems to claim that women thought to be at particular risk of being…
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Can Joy Milne smell Parkinson's disease?
There are plenty of online articles claiming that a woman called Joy Milne is able to tell whether someone has Parkinson disease by smell:
A British woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease has helped scientists discover 10 molecules linked to the…
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Does yoga cause as many injuries as other sports?
This Telegraph article claims:
Yoga is more dangerous than previously thought and causes as many injuries as other sports, a study has found.
[...] in a recent study yoga caused musculoskeletal pain - mostly in the
arms
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Professor Evangelos…
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Did a woman go blind after playing a mobile game?
The article Chinese woman blinded in one eye after playing game likened to electronic heroin stats:
The 21-year-old woman suddenly lost sight in her right eye after playing the game for the whole day over the weekend ... in Dongguan, Guangdong…
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Are milk and butter from grass-fed cows better for you?
Is there any evidence that grass fed milk and butter are better for you as claimed broadly in this Lacross Tribune article:
New study shows evidence milk from grass-fed cows is healthier
Cows that feed on pasture grasses and dry forage produce milk…
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Are flu shots harmful because they may contain antibiotics?
A webpage on Natural News claims that it is a bad idea to get a flu shot because certain flu shots contain antibiotics. It says:
The flu vaccines contain antibiotics such as neomycin, polymyxin B and
gentamicin which are added to eliminate stray…
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