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Is cost the #1 reason why Americans fail to take their medications as prescribed?
https://www.goodrx.com/how-goodrx-works (mirror) claims that:
The #1 reason Americans don't take their medications as prescribed: cost.
Is that true?
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Does sitting whilst peeing reduce prostate issues?
There are a number of articles that combine the statement that men should sit while peeing for hygiene reasons* and that sitting whilst peeing reduces prostate issues.
The problem is that I cannot seem to find the original or a reference to any…
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Does the use of electronic health records make physicians less efficient at performing their job?
http://time.com/4383979/doctor-burnout-electronic-health-records/ reported on 2016-06-27 that
nearly 63% of doctors believed that EHRs made their jobs less efficient.
Does the use of electronic health records actually make physicians less…
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Does less than 30% of donated used medical equipment ultimately become operational?
In its Guidelines for Donations of Health Care Equipment, the WHO says:
The sense among some biomedical
engineers and health care professionals who have extensive work experience in these countries is
that less than 30%, perhaps as low as 10%,…
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Can ANESA be used to diagnose pathologies?
I stumbled upon the Automatic Non-invasive Express Screening Analyzer (ANESA) device.
In the description it reads
ANESA Automatic Non-invasive Express Screening Analyzer determines the state of organism, its functional, hemodynamic balance, water -…
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Did the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) increase individual market premiums by an average of 49% nationwide?
This article in Forbes says it did. Did they pick and choose their data, or is that an accurate assessment?
Ample Evidence Shows Average Premiums and Spending Exploded After ACA Implementation in 2014
While it is important to look at data for…
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Was 31.5% of Medicare payments in 2006 the result of fraud?
To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its
payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times
reported that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had
aggressively hidden the fraud from…
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Is there evidence that competition between hospitals creates better quality and lower cost healthcare?
There is a debate in England, as the government is changing the way the NHS works, to introduce more competition.
The NHS will still operate as a single payer, covering the whole population: but providers such as hospitals will face more…
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Is legal induced abortion significantly more safe than childbirth?
When it is said that abortion is significantly safer for women compared to childbirth in mainstream media articles, it is often followed by a reference to a scientific study called The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in…
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Does eating almonds increase kidney stone risk?
The article Surprising side effects of eating too many almonds claims:
Kidney stones can be a health issue one can face if too many almonds
are consumed. Kidney stones are formed when there's a high level of
calcium oxalates left in the body and do…
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Did Ecuador's privatization of its healthcare system (under Moreno) substantially reduce the number of ICU beds?
As claimed on iacenter.org:
What’s behind this crisis is that during the past three years, the neoliberal regime of President Lenín Moreno privatized the public health system and systematically dismantled it. The system follows the U.S. “just in…
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Were hospitals in California half empty in April 2020 during the covid-19 pandemic?
I read this tweet from Elon Musk on https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1255678979043778560:
Hospitals in California have been half empty this whole time
Is it true that hospitals in California half empty in April 2020 during the covid-19…
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Were elderly patients denied dialysis in the UK during the 70s?
During a news broadcast by the Israeli public channel on March 15th, prof. Jonathan Halevy, the manager of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center said:
לבריטניה יש היסטוריה עם בעניין הזה. בשנות ה-70 לא עשו דיאליזה באנגליה לחולים מעל גיל 70
Britain has…
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Does Flanders have the highest density of General Practitioners globally?
Every year in September, the Belgian dutch public news agency (VRT) does a piece about the evolution of the need for extra GPs in Flanders. This need is analyzed by number of "priority zones", which are defined as zones with less 90 GPs per 100,000…
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Does using the ZAAZ-20K engages over 90% of one's muscles?
I read on http://zaazmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ZAAZ-20K-User-Manual1.compressed.pdf (mirror):
Standing on a ZAAZ vibration plate stimulates all parts of the body. 12 minutes on the machine engages over 90% of your muscles by causing…
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