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Has Mammography Created an Epidemic of Pseudo-Survivorship?
ByadminKaren Vogt’s breast cancer journey began like many others, with her breasts painfully squeezed into a mammography machine. At age 52, it was far from her first mammogram, but this scan would be the most consequential by far. It revealed microcalcifications, little areas of breast tissue speckled with deposits of calcium that her radiologist worried…
Medical Bankruptcy Is Much Less Common Than Elizabeth Warren Tells You
ByadminElizabeth Warren describes medical bills as “the leading cause of personal bankruptcy” in the United States. She bases that opinion in part on her own research, in which she and her collaborators surveyed people who had experienced personal bankruptcy, asked them whether they’d experienced health-related financial distress, and concluded that 60% of all bankruptcies in the U.S. result…
Could a Zika Epidemic Be the Key to a Trump Victory?
ByadminPlatforms and popularity ratings; policies and debate performances; PAC funding and get-out-the-vote efforts – so many factors can make the difference in a close election. But uncontrollable world events can tip elections too. In fact, Donald Trump’s election chances may depend on something as seemingly random as a global epidemic. Epidemics of contagious disease are…
The Life-Expectancy Gap in One Depressing Picture
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Sticking It to the… Employee!
ByadminOld news – healthcare costs are rising again. Older news – healthcare costs have been rising, faster than inflation, for most of the last half-century. Newer news – those costs are increasingly being born by employees rather than employers. Here’s a picture I came across at Vox, an excellent website for healthcare news.

