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 Blue Gatorade help with migraines?
I saw an exchange on my Facebook feed regarding someone suffering from a migraine. Advice was offered that blue Gatoraid specifically will help.
Searching on the internet, I found the TMJ Therapy and Sleep Center that claims
It’s quite possible…
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Was the contraceptive pill originally created for men?
This article suggests that the contraceptive pill was originally created for men, but men didn't like the side effects.
What is more of a secret, as Bethy Squires points out in her article for Broadly, is that hormonal contraception was originally…
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Are cheap tea bags dangerous to your health due to high fluoride levels?
In: "Cheap tea bags contain frighteningly high fluoride levels: Study"
on 'Natural News', it says:
A new study published in the journal, Food Research International, has revealed that millions of people across the globe are at serious risk of…
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Does taking birth control pills make you 99.9% protected from pregnancy?
Birth control pills is one of the more common methods of protection from pregnancy.
You can find many posts indicating that the probability of getting pregnant while using birth control pill is very very unlikely (for example - This post indicates…
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Do body wraps have slimming effects?
All over social media we see pictures of mostly women who show before and after pictures of body wraps, claiming they lost weight, or reduced cellulite, fat burners, or many other claims.
Some offer up very vague claims like this vendor.
Although…
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Does Bamboo Charcoal clothes help to improve one's health?
GreenYarn sel a number of products, such as clothing with bamboo charcoal particles are embedded in the fiber.
They claim:
Health: Bamboo charcoal absorbs chlorine in water and let minerals
out, making your skin smooth. Also, the charcoal…
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Is Philip Nitschke the first doctor in the world to administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection, in 1996?
This Reuters article reports:
Dr Philip Nitschke, who says he was the first doctor in the world to
administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection, said it is time for
Britain and others to heed growing calls for choice about dying, and
allow…
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Has medical prescribing become dominated by marketing rather than evidence?
Recent books by critics of the pharmaceutical industry (such as David Healy's Pharmageddon and Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma) have highlighted problems in the way the industry promotes its products.
In a 2010 article in Bioethical Enquiry, Spielmans and…
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Does the inclusion of whole population medical screening undermine the benefits of wellness programmes?
Workplace wellness programmes are becoming increasingly popular as employers (and governments) attempt to control escalating healthcare costs. They offer the promise of making the workforce healthier and, in principle, lowering the cost of providing…
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Is "treatment induced injury" one of the leading causes of death and disability?
David Healy's latest blog warns against the credulity of doctors in the face of vast marketing efforts by pharmaceutical firms. In making a general argument about how the medical profession ought to do a better job he makes the following…
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Does getting more doses of COVID-19 vaccinations correlate to more hospitalisations in NSW, Australia?
Twitter user @LCHF_Matt has created a NSW Surveillance Report which is a dashboard that compare the rate of "events" (which can be configured to include COVID-19 deaths, COVID-19 ICU admissions, COVID-19 non-ICU hospital admissions or reported…
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Are HIV positive couples in China denied assisted reproduction methods?
In the following article on Xinhuanet, it is claimed that HIV carriers are not allowed access to assisted reproduction in China.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/21/c_137762633.htm
As HIV carriers are not allowed to have assisted…
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Is the MyoRing operation a successful treatment for Keratoconus?
Keratoconus is a disease that causes progressive (and irregular) thinning of the cornea.
MyoRing is an treatment that involves implanting a ring under the cornea. It supposedly improves vision by a lot and also halts / slows the disease…
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Do higher levels of medical intervention lead to better outcomes for patients?
There is a lot of variation in levels of medical treatment and spend across the USA. That variation has been studied by, for example, The Dartmouth Atlas Project. They conclude that more isn't better:
In regions where there are relatively fewer…
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Are most medical studies too badly designed to improve patient care?
In recent years there has been a increasing number of complaints that many peer-reviewed scientific publications are of poor quality (for example see these questions: Can up to 70% of scientific studies not be reproduced? , Are most published…
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