South Korea is one of several countries to investigate the link between the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot and adverse reactions after vaccination.
Category: Policy
What are your health goals for the coming year? [PODCAST]
“Yearly physicals are usually afforded a longer time than regular visits. If I can use most of that time focusing the discussion on what a healthy life means to each of my patients and what they need to achieve it, I feel that I’ve accomplished m…
Intellectual Property Rights Are Key To Fighting Covid-19 And Protecting Public Health
The record-setting development of multiple Covid-19 vaccines will go down in history as some of medical science’s greatest achievements. In less than a year, the competing vaccines went from the drawing board to saving lives around the world.
Fauci Says Military Who Refuse Covid-19 Vaccine Are ‘Part Of The Problem’ After High Rate Of Service Members Refuse Jab
Pentagon officials have said one in three military troops are refusing to take the optional Covid-19 shot.
Lessons on effective knowledge networks to support pandemic response
From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have observed remarkable, global cooperation as health care providers scramble to address new challenges. Leaping to one another’s aid, clinicians have deepened relationships and formed new connections, …
Inside the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill is a political time bomb for Republicans
Contained inside the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill is a political time bomb for Republicans. Included in the bill’s long list of stimulus spending is a provision that delivers on President Biden’s promise to stren…
Why environmental justice is integral to the future of medicine
This past year has been one of overwhelming extremes: global pandemic, a national reckoning on racism, devastating wildfires and storms, and political disarray. To some it was perhaps just a difficult year. But to those who can identify the common thre…
These Four Policy Changes Could Help Us Get Vaccines For The Next Pandemic Even Faster
Public health experts Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Sarah A. Wetter explore how lessons learned from producing vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic could make the response to the next pandemic even faster.
New York’s Single-Payer Healthcare Bill Remains A Disastrous Idea
New York’s leaders should learn from their past failures—and refrain from restarting their misguided quests for single-payer.
Emergency departments need to claim their role in the social safety net
A patient once told me, “I sit on the side of the road asking for change. People look right through me like I’m invisible. Food stamps aren’t enough. I can’t afford to exist and I want to die.” A man is dying of poverty — this is an emergency, bu…
