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- American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time https://aasm.org/american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-calls-for-elimination-of-daylight-saving-time/ 486 comments
- Appeals court says Kentucky prisons can deny life-saving medicine because it's expensive https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2021/07/09/appeals-court-rules-kentucky-prisons-can-deny-hepatitis-c-medication/7902848002/ 116 comments politics
- Sleep Experts Make the Case Against Daylight Saving Time - The American Academy of Sleep Medicine called for the abolishment of seasonal time changes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experts-make-case-against-daylight-saving-time-180975706/ 1917 comments science
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine: Eliminate daylight saving time https://aasm.org/american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-calls-for-elimination-of-daylight-saving-time/ 1167 comments science
- Should access to life-saving medicines be determined by economic evaluations? https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/477547-should-access-to-life-saving-medicines-be-determined-by-economic 10 comments politics
- Australia gave universal health care approx 60 and now they fund medicine that saves lives. USA can’t give Medicare to a portion of its country. It’s not hard it’s just healthy. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-30/new-medications-added-pbs-lung-cancer-chemotherapy/11559724 4 comments politics
- India is trying to kill us off by not supplying life saving medicines all the while Modi gets UAEs highest civilian award https://www.news18.com/news/india/kashmir-dispatch-11-people-are-dying-claim-doctors-as-valley-runs-out-of-lifesaving-medicines-amid-lockdown-2282033.html 17 comments pakistan
- Iranians say US sanctions blocking life-saving medicine https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/iranians-sanctions-blocking-life-saving-medicine-190730101235408.html 4 comments worldnews
- $INCY "How Alternative Medicine Saved 10-Year-Old Boy's Life After Two Bouts Of Cancer" https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/bzl6fr/incy_how_alternative_medicine_saved_10yearold/ 7 comments wallstreetbets
- $2million for a drug that saves babies, this is why medicine should be a public industry. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sma-drug-cost-fda-1.5149262 3 comments politics
- This crab could save your life - if humans don't wipe it out first: Horseshoe crab outlived dinosaurs but is no match for medicine’s hunger for its blood https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/03/horseshoe-crab-population-at-risk-blood-big-pharma 250 comments worldnews
- Who famous could've been saved with 21st C medicine? (Besides like, everybody--what are some poignant examples) https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/6rl396/who_famous_couldve_been_saved_with_21st_c/ 10 comments history
- We could save a shit load of MONEY on Medicines. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/6q1shb/we_could_save_a_shit_load_of_money_on_medicines/ 6 comments india
- Lets save our medicines. Rindians!! Do what you you do the best. http://handsoff.msf.org/generics-under-attack 24 comments india
- Socialized medicine in US could save 14,000 elderly a year (scroll to bottom of article) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2126379/sentenced-death-old-the-nhs-denies-life-saving-treatment-elderly-mans-chilling-story-reveals.html 27 comments politics
- The story of how a guy who shrunk from 6'1" to 5'6" in just a couple years helped change medicine and save lives: http://protomag.com/assets/the-legacy-of-ward-4/ 26 comments science
- Socialized Medicine? Canadian Health Care Saved my Father's Life http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/socialized-medicine-canadian-health.html 11 comments reddit.com
- More Guns, Less Medicine: Trump’s Military Spending Binge Would Swamp Savings From Health Care Repeal https://theintercept.com/2017/03/13/more-guns-less-medicine-trumps-military-spending-binge-would-swamp-savings-from-health-care-repeal/ 2 comments politics
- Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back. For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they’re only good for shareholders. http://www.thenation.com/article/corporations-killed-medicine-heres-how-to-take-it-back/ 154 comments politics
- Why Medicine Is Cheaper in Germany. Germany has found a way to make sure medical breakthroughs are actually breakthroughs—and to save money in the process. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/why-medicine-is-cheaper-in-germany/371418/ 326 comments worldnews
- There's a New .Health Domain and It Could Save You From Fake Medicine - In the vein of .gov and .edu, the new domain is supposed to help differentiate between doctors and quacks. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/theres-a-new-health-domain-and-it-could-save-you-from-fake-medicine 8 comments technology
- Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuba Aims to Share Homegrown Vaccine with Global South | “Medicines and vaccines are not a commodity. It’s not something to get rich with. It’s something to save people’s lives.” says the director of the Cuban Center for Neuroscience. https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/27/cuba_beat_covid_despite_us_embargo 5 comments worldnews
- Physicists Discover a New Photonic Effect That Could Accelerate the Discovery of Life-Saving Medicines https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-discover-a-new-photonic-effect-that-could-accelerate-the-discovery-of-life-saving-medicines/ 5 comments futurology
- Only State-of-the-Art Medicine—and Luck—Can Save Trump Now: The president has treatment options for his coronavirus infection. None are very good. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/02/only-state-of-the-art-medicine-and-luck-can-save-trump-now/ 33 comments politics
- Will provide free medicine in hospitals with money saved from flyover projects: Kejriwal http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/will-provide-free-medicine-in-hospitals-with-money-saved-from-flyover-projects-kejriwal/ 7 comments india
- Modern medicine saves idiot's life after he put a rattlesnake in his throat http://www.local6.com/news/14139408/detail.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Overcharging for life-saving medicines costs lives, yet the UK seems reluctant to support efforts to encourage fairer pricing: Italy has a draft resolution to improve the transparency of markets for drugs, vaccines ... to be discussed at the World Health Assembly https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/10/britain-must-do-more-to-stop-drug-firms-from-lining-their-pockets 21 comments worldnews
- Pharmaceutical giant Aspen plotted to destroy life-saving cancer medicines in order to drive prices up by 4,000% http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/drug-giant-aspen-plot-destroy-cancer-medicine-big-pharma-times-investigation-a7683521.html# 15 comments worldnews
- California first state to outlaw routine use of bacteria-fighting drugs in livestock: "The science is clear that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock has contributed to the spread of antibiotic resistance and the undermining of decades of life-saving advances in medicine" http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28951303/antibiotics-ban-california-becomes-first-state-outlaw-routine 64 comments politics
- He said the troika had come to the country in the guise of doctors with the medicine that would save the economy but that events had proved them to be "charlatans and quacks handing out 'cures' that destroyed and killed the Greek economy and had drastic repercussions on Greek society." http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/11/57310 3 comments europe
- Deciding who dies. A pharmacist refuses to prescribe medicine to save a woman bleeding to death because she might have had an abortion. http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/01/13/pharmacists-refusing-to-fill-prescriptions-for-potentially-life-saving-drugs/ 60 comments reddit.com
- Socialized Medicine Saved Me: When Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks was diagnosed with cancer overseas, she didn’t hightail it back home, to “the best health care in the world”- she stayed in Australia, home to a humane, rational system http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-06/socialized-medicine-saved-me/full/ 3 comments worldnews
- US pharmaceutical industry aims to wrest some drug production back from China: COVID-19 has U.S. officials on an accelerated mission to bring the production of life-saving medicines back to U.S. shores and away from the control of the Chinese government. https://www.foxnews.com/health/pharmaceutical-industry-china-drug-production 13 comments worldnews
- Providing medications for free leads to greater adherence and cost-savings. Free access to essential medicines increases patient adherence to taking medication by 35 per cent and reduces total health spending by an average of over $1,000 per patient per year https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/smh-pm051921.php 747 comments science
- The “pharma bro” who increased the price of a life-saving medicine, Daraprim, by 5,000% has been rattled by a group of Australian school students who managed to make the same drug for $2 per pill. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/02/martin-shkreli-rattled-by-sydney-high-schoolers-who-cooked-2-malaria-pills 37 comments worldnews
- Rep. Boehner, Oct. 2: We could save over $100 billion a year in less medicine being practiced if in fact we were to have real reform of medical malpractice laws. http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/malpractice-savings-reconsidered/ 4 comments politics
- A doctor is accused by an anonymous whistleblower of practicing bad medicine. So he asks his friend, a sheriff who believes the doctor saved his life once, to root out the whistleblower. Now the nurse who wrote the letter is on trial in Texas court for "misuse of official information" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/us/07nurses.html?ref=health 16 comments reddit.com
- A month after Pakistan suspended bilateral trade with India, it has now allowed the import of life-saving medicines from India in order to provide relief to its patients who were affected due to Pakistan's drug industry being severely hit. https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/pakistan-allows-trade-life-saving-drugs-with-india-1594943-2019-09-03 7 comments worldnews
- New position statement from American Academy of Sleep Medicine supports replacing daylight saving time with permanent standard time. By causing human body clock to be misaligned with natural environment, daylight saving time increases risks to physical health, mental well-being, and public safety. https://aasm.org/new-position-statement-supports-permanent-standard-time/ 2096 comments science
- How patent rules could keep new hepatitis C drug from saving 'millions of lives' - While affordable medicine advocates in India prepare to fight the patenting of a new hepatitis C drug, the US works to strengthen pharmaceutical patents through an international trade deal. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/global-pulse/new-hepatitis-c-drug-called-game-changer-not-everyone 6 comments worldnews