Over one million Americans travel to foreign countries for medical procedures each year, resulting in a multi-million dollar industry that, for the most part, is vastly unregulated.
Category: healthcare
Daylight Saving: How America’s Annual ‘Spring Forward’ Is Bad For Your Health
Fatal car crashes, heart attacks and strokes all jump following the spring change and experts say we should use standard time permanently.
This 30 Under 30 Alumna Is One Step Closer To Helping Your Dogs Live Longer
Celine Halioua’s company, Loyal, is getting ready to enter clinical trials for its new canine drug. Her goal? To give you more healthy, happy years with your dogs.
New ‘Fast-Acting’ Migraine Drug Approved By FDA
Pfizer’s nasal spray drug can provide migraine pain relief in as little as 15 minutes, clinical trials suggest.
Independent Expert Commission Needed To Probe “Deadly Mistakes” Made By Government During Covid-19 Crisis
In the aftermath of the Covid crisis, we need an independent, expert commission to get to the truth about the often deadly mistakes made by government and healthcare officials.
England’s Healthcare Staff Increasingly Afraid To Raise Safety Concerns
Less than three-quarters of staff felt comfortable raising concerns about unsafe clinical practices.
Hepatitis C, The Disease, Epidemiology, Treatment, Eradication Part 3: United States Epidemiology
In the third part of this series, we illustrate the scope of hepatitis C infections in the United States and highlight the inequities in disease burden across various groups of people.
Gain-Of-Function Research And Covid-19: Could Too Much Oversight Slow Progress?
Infectious disease expert and biology professor Dave Wessner explores the scientific merit versus potential danger of experiments that change the genetic makeup of viruses and give them new abilities to better understand how they infect others and caus…
This Founder Is Getting Closer To Solving The Organ Shortage
Dr. Joseph Tector’s “Soul Possessing” Mission to Gene-Edit Pig Organs and Eliminate Waitlist: “I believe it will happen in my lifetime”
England’s Surgery Backlog Remains Stuck At Its Highest Ever Level
It’s still the longest this waiting list has been since records began in 2007.
