Process could be harnessed as a treatment for osteoarthritis
Contrary to popular belief, cartilage in human joints can repair itself through a process similar to that used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish to regenerate limbs, researchers at Duke Health found.
Publishing online Oct. 9 in the journal Science Advances, the researchers identified a mechanism for cartilage repair that appears to be more robust in ankle joints and less so in hips. The finding could potentially lead to treatments for osteoarthritis, the most common joint disorder in the world.
Impressive. Ratio means that the numerator and denominator are measured in the same units.
I would like to see a chart of some per unit or per patient real litigation costs faced by US hospitals over the same time period.
Oh well. Nobody has ever argued that American Exceptionalism is cheap.
Investor ROI doesn't grow on trees you know.
If you don't increase revenue faster than costs, how would you ever make more money?
I think you are trying to be funny rgio but that is actually not how markets work. Risk-adjusted ROI does not evolve that radically over time.
But who cares? Almost of voting American adults just voted for a guy who clearly has his own unique personal view on how markets work. Is it not fascinating that just shy of 50% of voting American adults just voted for Marxist Keynesianism?
Besides that, Trump had 4 years to replace Obama Care and finally decided that the status quo was acceptable.
This is just one more example of private equity firms gutting businesses. ToysRUs is another: a perfectly good company brought down by a rapacious PE firm. They do not add value - in fact they extract it. They do not create jobs - they create unemployment. They do not serve the community, local or otherwise - they exist to serve a handful of obscenely wealthy people. I still do not understand how these transactions can be legal. They are certainly immoral. c.
This is just one more example of private equity firms gutting businesses. ToysRUs is another: a perfectly good company brought down by a rapacious PE firm. They do not add value - in fact they extract it. They do not create jobs - they create unemployment. They do not serve the community, local or otherwise - they exist to serve a handful of obscenely wealthy people. I still do not understand how these transactions can be legal. They are certainly immoral. c.
The health care scare I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now weâre paying the price.
(...) The most effective myth we perpetuated â the industry trots it out whenever major reform is proposed â is that Canadians and people in other single-payer countries have to endure long waits for needed care. Just last year, in a statement submitted to a congressional committee for a hearing on the Medicare for All Act of 2019, AHIP maintained that âpatients would pay more to wait longer for worse careâ under a single-payer system.
While itâs true that Canadians sometimes have to wait weeks or months for elective procedures (knee replacements are often cited), the truth is that they do not have to wait at all for the vast majority of medical services. And, contrary to another myth I used to peddle â that Canadian doctors are flocking to the United States â there are more doctors per 1,000 people in Canada than here. Canadians see their doctors an average of 6.8 times a year, compared with just four times a year in this country. (...)
Interesting role on the brain/vagal nerve connection to health and chronic inflammation:
One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric. https://mosaicscience.com/stor...
But four years after his lifesaving procedure, it was not only Mr. Longâs blood that was affected. Swabs of his lips and cheeks contained his DNA â but also that of his donor. Even more surprising to Mr. Long and other colleagues at the crime lab, all of the DNA in his semen belonged to his donor. âI thought that it was pretty incredible that I can disappear and someone else can appear,â he said.
Mr. Long had become a chimera, the technical term for the rare person with two sets of DNA. The word takes its name from a fire-breathing creature in Greek mythology composed of lion, goat and serpent parts. Doctors and forensic scientists have long known that certain medical procedures turn people into chimeras, but where exactly a donorâs DNA shows up â beyond blood â has rarely been studied with criminal applications in mind.
More than 13% of American adults — or about 34 million people — report knowing of at least one friend or family member in the past five years who died after not receiving needed medical treatment because they were unable to pay for it, based on a new study by Gallup and West Health. Nonwhites, those in lower-income households, those younger than 45, and political independents and Democrats are all more likely to know someone who has died under these circumstances.
Health Insurance has morphed into legalized extortion. You were lucky. LizW is right when she says most Americans don't like their insurance company. The only industry I can think of where you pay your money and the company can simply deny or dilute the service you paid for.
i've heard analysts say something like this referring to doctors, hospitals and insurance companies:
broadly speaking, the doctors and hospitals are the bigger profiteers with insurance companies lagging way behind
================================================
however politically insurance companies are very easy targets
health care in this country is highly regulated/controlled/guarded
thanks to technology the fortress walls are in the process of coming down
market innovations are going to enable easy and early diagnosis and treatment
the tools of healthcare are going to be digitized, demonetized and democratized
Lauren Bard opened the hospital bill this month and her body went numb. In bold block letters it said, âAMOUNT DUE: $898,984.57.â
Last fall, Bardâs daughter, Sadie, had arrived about three months prematurely; and as a nurse herself, Bard knew the costs for Sadieâs care would be high. But sheâd assumed the bulk would be covered by the organization that owned the hospital where she worked: Dignity Health, whose marketing motto is âHello humankindness.â
She would be wrong.
Our daughter was born 10 weeks early at 3:15 pm Friday, May 31. Someone casually mentioned it in the hall outside someone's office who shouted out her office door, "excuse me, what?" That woman gathered up papers and literally ran to the recovery room where mom was still coming out of anesthesia and I and the recovery room nurse were sitting quietly. If we didn't get these papers signed and submitted before 5pm, nothing would happen until Monday, the next month, where at the very least we'd have to fight to recover any expenses from May, and I assume might trigger this sort of wholesale rejection of the claim. The woman was calm and efficient but clearly in a panic to get it done, done correctly, and submitted before anyone had a chance to clock out early.
Health Insurance has morphed into legalized extortion. You were lucky. LizW is right when she says most Americans don't like their insurance company. The only industry I can think of where you pay your money and the company can simply deny or dilute the service you paid for.
Lauren Bard opened the hospital bill this month and her body went numb. In bold block letters it said, âAMOUNT DUE: $898,984.57.â
Last fall, Bardâs daughter, Sadie, had arrived about three months prematurely; and as a nurse herself, Bard knew the costs for Sadieâs care would be high. But sheâd assumed the bulk would be covered by the organization that owned the hospital where she worked: Dignity Health, whose marketing motto is âHello humankindness.â
She would be wrong.
Our daughter was born 10 weeks early at 3:15 pm Friday, May 31. Someone casually mentioned it in the hall outside someone's office who shouted out her office door, "excuse me, what?" That woman gathered up papers and literally ran to the recovery room where mom was still coming out of anesthesia and I and the recovery room nurse were sitting quietly. If we didn't get these papers signed and submitted before 5pm, nothing would happen until Monday, the next month, where at the very least we'd have to fight to recover any expenses from May, and I assume might trigger this sort of wholesale rejection of the claim. The woman was calm and efficient but clearly in a panic to get it done, done correctly, and submitted before anyone had a chance to clock out early.
