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Our healthcare system is irretrievably broken, and now is devastating the US financially. Pharmocracy II, like its predecessor Pharmocracy, uncovers egregious FDA incompetence, abuse, and corruption. It shows how over-regulation causes lifesaving medications to be delayed or suppressed altogether, while approving vastly expensive, minimally effective, and often dangerous drugs. Faloon lays out a completely different approach to healthcare, one that...
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Our healthcare system is irretrievably broken, and now it is devastating the US financially. Pharmocracy uncovers egregious FDA incompetence and abuse, and shows how over-regulation causes lifesaving medications to be delayed or suppressed altogether, and makes consumers pay inflated prices for FDA-approved therapies that are only minimally effective and often dangerous. A free market approach to healthcare, Faloon argues, would spare Medicare and...
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Adrenaline Nation is a brilliant exposé by Peter McCarthy of how chronic stress is affecting American individuals, businesses and the entire nation's economy and health care system. It challenges accepted cultural paradigms and reveals uncomfortable truths of the serious economic, health and social consequences of stress.This book also offers revolutionary solutions for how individuals, businesses and government officials can get control over the...
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Ce livre présente une interprétation détaillée des résultats de l'IRM cérébrale et de l'angio-IRM du polygone de Willis, en mettant l'accent sur l'identification des anomalies et des maladies cérébrales courantes. Les implications cliniques des résultats sont également discutées, notamment en ce qui concerne la surveillance régulière des micro-anévrismes carotido-ophtalmiques. Des informations utiles sur les antécédents médicaux...
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Repeatedly included in The Best Doctors in America, Dr. Don L. Goldenberg is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and the author of 200 articles in scientific journals. This book is a succinct, consumer-focused guide to how the novel coronavirus can affect you and how the pandemic is affecting healthcare options.
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?
History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating-and significant-missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S.; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed;...
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Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has...
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