The new nominee to head the FDA begs the question: What is the White House inhaling when it comes to tobacco policy?
Category: Policy
Biden’s Next Big Push With China May Be In Healthcare And The Fight Against Cancer
The death of son Beau Biden from cancer spurred an effort by then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to organize a “National Cancer Moonshot Initiative” to support research to “end cancer as we know it.”
Austria Sends Unvaccinated Into Lockdown—Here’s How Other Nations Are Limiting People Who Don’t Get Covid-19 Shots
Austria, which has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 infection in the world and one of the worst vaccination rates in Western Europe, joins a handful of nations introducing restrictions for the unvaccinated.
The climate crisis as viewed by an emergency physician
I remember the cacophony of tiny chirps outside of my childhood home made by frogs that lived in the ice grass. I remember this sound in particular because of the beauty in their voice and because in what seemed like the blink of an eye, they stopped. …
Lockdown And Restrictions Resurface In Europe As Continent Battles Another Covid Surge
In an attempt to contain soaring infections, Austria is reportedly contemplating a lockdown for only unvaccinated people, the Netherlands could bring back a partial lockdown and Czechia plans to test every schoolchild for the virus.
Direct primary care is an answer to volume-based insurance reimbursement models
An excerpt from Medical Answers Now!: How Direct Primary Care Guarantees Fast Access to Your Doctor. Health care costs are out of control and volume-based insurance reimbursement models are felt to be contributing to the problem. Medicare and most majo…
Direct primary care is an answer to volume-based insurance reimbursement models
An excerpt from Medical Answers Now!: How Direct Primary Care Guarantees Fast Access to Your Doctor. Health care costs are out of control and volume-based insurance reimbursement models are felt to be contributing to the problem. Medicare and most majo…
Is Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Workers Unconstitutional?
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked President Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandate. The Supreme Court will ultimately rule it unconstitutional—and rightly so.
U.S. Bureaucrats Are An Impediment To Pandemic Recovery
Throughout the pandemic, bureaucratic sclerosis has proven the American regulatory apparatus to be an impediment to fighting COVID-19—not to mention future public health threats.
Politics Aside, The Biden Administration’s Vaccine Mandates Are Lawful
Public health law experts Lawrence Gostin, Alexandra Finch and James Hodge explain why the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandates will survive legal scrutiny – and why their politicization makes for a rocky road ahead.
