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Covid-19: Communities of Color and Other Buyers, Beware of Bold Promises from Health Insurers

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought issues of healthcare equity to the forefront of discussions of racial justice. Even when controlling for factors like age and income, communities of color have been much more severely impacted that white Americans. A recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that “older Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native adults were Read More…

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Honest Medicine, Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases

Honest Medicine is all most people really want from the medical field. What works? What doesn’t work? Those are the main questions people want answered. Unfortunately, with Big Pharma money lining the pockets of the FDA with one hand and cutting doctors checks behind the backs of regulators with the other, very few doctors are Read More…

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Vitamin D Beneficial for Lung Disease Patients

A new study suggests that among people who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), taking a high-dose supplement of vitamin D may increase their exercise capacity and strength of respiratory muscles. The findings, which were presented at the recent American Thoracic Society conference in Denver, show that a monthly dose of 100,000 IU (international units) Read More…