Senior citizens are rattled by news that Medicare telehealth coverage could expire next month

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Senior citizens are rattled by news that Medicare telehealth coverage could expire next month https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senior-citizens-medicare-telehealth-coverage-expiring-rcna193487 Advocates say the coverage has bipartisan support, but efforts to make it permanent have been unsuccessful. For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend.   Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in […]

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Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Why Reliable Opioid Death Data is Impossible https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/why_reliable_opioid_death_data_is_impossible.html If we’ve learned anything from our national COVID experience, it’s that science is not a collection of fixed, eternal declarations. Tools and terminology useful in the process of discovery can also be instruments of confirmation. A microscope can be a portal to the unexpected, or a prop […]

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Shots Fired!! Two of the most prestigious medical journals just came out fiercely against epidural injections

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

Shots Fired!! Two of the most prestigious medical journals just came out fiercely against epidural injections / RFA. The British Medical Journal just published a “Practice Guideline” paper with these damning statements: “For people living with chronic radicular spine pain, the guideline panel issued strong recommendations against: epidural injection of local anaesthetic, steroids, or their […]

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