Oregon, the progressive state, is about to take a giant regressive step into our shameful past. Their plan to stop all opioids for chronic pain patients on Medicaid is reminiscent of the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male."
Policy & Ethics
At the heart of the matter is an individual's right to choose how and how long to live. It should not be surprising that opinions are all over the map.
U.S. public health agencies struggle to endorse an obvious solution to a true public health menace. Hopefully, the UK Parliament will provide a much-needed boost to the forces of common sense.
Organic food gets by on marketing and labels. The difficulty seems to be that labels like organic have no legal meaning, FDA Comissioner Gottlieb is setting his sights on the problem.
Some self-righteous busybodies, apparently not content with the carnage caused by their magnificently inept (mis)handling of the fake opioid crisis have taken up a new cause - one that will make many of you anxious. They want restrictions slapped on anti-anxiety drugs, like Xanax and Valium and don't seem to care that it's a terrible idea.
The Mercatus Center's report on the financial impact of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" proposal reveals the details. The media insists on feeding us biased headlines and soundbites. That just an informational meal of empty calories. Let's do better here.
When ideology not medical reasoning guides infant feeding policy, nobody wins.
When health insurers keep trying to practice medicine without a license, we all lose.
Dr. Stan Young is a man on a mission. So when the renowned biostatistician happened across a substandard paper by two anti-opioid zealots, Young spoke up. Just like he always does.
A ruling last May in the UK Court of Appeal may have set an important precedent – that genetic testing extends the duty of a healthcare professional beyond the patient. Yet, extending that duty also risks damaging the underlying trust between doctor and patient.
There's "transplant commercialism" and “transplant tourism,” which sees patients travel abroad for transplants they might struggle to otherwise obtain quickly. Meanwhile, the global reach of social media makes it increasingly easy for organs to be offered for sale online. How common is this, and what are the larger implications?
Medicare wants to change how much physicians are paid for office visits. And physician societies worry about how much their constituents' income is impacted. Did anyone notice that physicians are being put on the clock, like every other assembly-line worker?