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In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re on fire. Specialists recommended a series of infusions to ease her pain, but her insurer refused to pay for the expensive treatment, which it says is “not considered medically necessary.”

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Robert Turner, Founding Editor - November 22, 2021

Our survival as a species could be placed in jeopardy if we don't begin to police treatments that place our DNA in harms way. Oversight is needed.

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Medika Life - May 12, 2022

A central question for scientists championing boosters is why rates have stalled among people 65 and older.

Medical Ethics and Treatment Is in a Nasty Fight for Its Existence

Pat Farrell PhD - April 7, 2022

Medicine, the area of science that has been slowly backed into a corner by insurance reimbursement, is now in another fight for its moral...

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