“When people get signed up for Medicaid, it increases the likelihood that they will seek all types of medical care including more visits to primary care doctors, and even when patients are not explicitly seeking care for opioid addiction, the greater contact with the health system creates more opportunities…” said lead study author Brendan Saloner
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OverprescribedApril 3, 2019 |
High cost isn’t America’s only drug problem. The pharmaceutical industry has followed a brilliant two-pronged strategy to maximize its profits: raise prices and increase consumption of medications
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Moral TechnologyMarch 21, 2019 |
Self-driving cars don’t drink and medical AIs are never overtired. Given our obvious flaws, what can humans still do best?
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Jon Mehlman: My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our ChildrenFebruary 15, 2019 |
The choice was unusual, but loving: We wanted them to live without the shadow of their mother’s mortality hanging over them
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AI Can Diagnose Some Childhood Illnesses Better than Some DoctorsFebruary 13, 2019 |
Diagnosing an illness requires taking in a lot of information and connecting the dots. Artificial intelligence may be well-suited to such a task and in recent tests one system could diagnose children’s illnesses better than some doctors
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A Radical PrescriptionJanuary 16, 2019 |
Could digital technology make doctors of us all? Advances in artificial intelligence, diagnostics and electronic data gathering could prompt a revolution in how we access healthcare
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Researchers hope that by probing the immune system, they can determine why children are developing a polio-like disease
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A Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and BadNovember 6, 2018 |
With millions of Americans taking risky medications for questionable diagnoses, have we medicalized everyday life?
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