As the summer’s deadly Delta variant surge slowly seems to be receding, questions are rising anew as to what further harms the coronavirus pandemic may inflict on a nation that already has suffered greatly.
The infection still is creating major
Continue Reading As Delta surge eases, what’s next with this pandemic?
As the nation rapidly grays, not only are middle-aged and older patients undergoing increasing numbers of knee, hip, ankle, and shoulder surgeries, back operations also have spiked — and a significant number of these procedures may be unwarranted and harmful.
Continue Reading Aching backs lead to dubious surgeries and billion$ in revenue$
When Big Pharma gets jammed up by federal regulators overseeing what may be risky prescription drugs, what to do? How about hiring the help of a powerful, secretive business consulting company — which also happens to be advising the feds
Continue Reading Nothing to see here? Consultant advises drug makers — and their regulators
It may be tempting to get caught up in cynical views of congressional lawmaking, budgeting, and spending — seeing it as gross “sausage making” or in sporting “who wins and who loses” score-keeping.
But for anyone who believes that health
Continue Reading Will Congress bog down or will it act on people’s health and other needs?
The battle to quell the coronavirus pandemic and especially its deadly Delta variant surge soon may extend to the nation’s children.
A drug maker has submitted required data and formally requested from federal regulators an emergency approval for a vaccine
Continue Reading As experts ponder vaccinating our kids, Covid orphans tens of thousands
A trio of former President Trump’s country club friends planned to use the clout he gave them over the Department of Veteran Affairs to set up a potentially enriching scheme to exploit the confidential, personal medical records of millions of
Continue Reading Ex-president’s buddies schemed to exploit VA patients’ data, records show
Federal officials have sharply escalated their battle with opioid painkiller abuse and overdoses, issuing an urgent public warning that street drugs of many different varieties may be tainted with tiny but lethal doses of the synthetic painkiller fentanyl.
The
Continue Reading Fake pills, laced with lethal fentanyl, are circulating widely, U.S. warns consumers
Yet more derelictions of duty by the federal Food and Drug Administration are happening now, in its handling of largely hokum treatments and health-threatening devices. The latest examples: drug safety regulators step back from their oversight of those who peddle sketchy
Continue Reading FDA dithers dangerously on regulating sketchy ‘stem cell’ care and kid vaping
It’s one thing when toddlers in their terrible twos react to common sense directions for their own good, throwing themselves to the floor, declaring, “I won’t, I won’t — and you can’t make me …” When grownups behave in, basically,
Continue Reading Another milestone of lives lost needlessly
Medical specialists and researchers have taken a big step in recognizing that how they diagnose black patients with kidney disease may be racially biased and harmful to a group that already and disproportionately suffers the illness’s harms.
Doctors now should
Continue Reading Experts call for end to a race-based adjustment in a key kidney function test
