On September 1st, 2021, Texas Senate Bill 8 went into effect. While the law’s stated goal is to severely limit a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in Texas, it also designates private citizens to sue not just abortion providers, but an…
Category: Policy
European Union Plans U.S.-Inspired Agency To Fight Future Pandemics
In addition to the new agency, the bloc will also donate an extra 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries.
No one is in charge of the free-for-all that is U.S. health care
During these solemn high holy days of repentance and reckoning, millions of Jews around the world beseech God to stop COVID-19 from spreading and ending lives. Although it can be soothing and reassuring to believe that the universe is governed by a su…
Democrats’ Latest Attempt To Expand Medicare Would Hurt Seniors
But adding dental coverage to traditional Medicare is imprudent and unnecessary. In the long run, it could even reduce seniors’ ability to access quality dental care
20 Years After 9/11: U.S. Marks Anniversary Of Attacks (In Photos)
The 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was marked by the loved ones of victims and first responders in memorial events in New York, the capital area and rural Pennsylvania at the places where coordinated attackers crashed …
What the latest IPCC report means for physicians: There is no time for climate despair
As third-year medical students, we recently stepped out of the classroom and onto the wards, eager to provide the quality care we had been working towards for the better part of the last decade. We were, however, quickly met with a stark reminder of ho…
Millions of Americans without ICU doctors due to the “Biden ban”
Americans are dying in ICUs in far greater numbers than would otherwise be if not for a newly misapplied 57-year-old rule banning the only American board-certified ICU doctors available in many cities from providing critical care, leaving only nurses t…
When Can You Get A Covid-19 Booster Shot?
Exactly what the booster shot plan will look like still depends on the FDA and CDC and the results of ongoing studies.
Will Flu Season Make A Comeback? Why We’ll Need Covid And Flu Tests This Winter
Dr. Matt Binnicker, an expert in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, explains why testing for both Covid-19 and influenza will be important as we head into the winter months.
Why clinicians can’t keep ignoring care coordination
Traditional referral intake systems haven’t changed significantly in the past 30 years. Rather, they are still based on paper and fax referrals that often get lost in the shuffle of busy days and patient care needs. This reliance on old-school methods …
