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Judge Denies Gag Order on Wrongful Death Depositions
A judge is allowing the release of deposition transcripts and audio files in the wrongful death case of a young woman who died in a hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic because of an unauthorized do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order. Grace Schara, a 19-year-old with Down’s Syndrome, died at St. Elizabeth’s (Ascension) Hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin several days…
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Secularized Medicine Harms Doctors, Patients—Book Review
Review of Missional Medicine—Restoring the Soul of Medicine, Mark B. Blocher, M.D., 2022, 175 pages, ISBN 9781792383069, $20, amazon.com (Paperback) Imagine if you were about to undergo a major surgical procedure, and your surgeon came in and asked if you wanted to pray first, or have a serious conversation about the state of your soul? Today’s…
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“Health Equity” Will Destroy North Carolina’s Medical Schools
Surveying American institutions, one searches in earnest for even a few organizations or systems that progressives have been unable to control. News story after news story confirms that indeed that one, that one, and, yes, that one too have all succumbed to ideological capture. Naïfs like myself once held out hope for science and mathematics. How could geometry be racist…
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What Are the Major Presidential Candidates’ Plans for Health Care? – Interview
Politics may overshadow the issues in the November presidential election, but health care is on the minds of most voters. Twila Brase, president, and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, spoke with Health Care NewsManaging Editor AnneMarie Schieber about the crucial health care issues for a new administration and what reform could look…
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North Carolina Medicaid Expansion Tops 450,000 Enrollees
North Carolina has picked up 450,000 new Medicaid enrollees in the first six months since becoming the 41st state to expand Medicaid. The state’s Department of Health and Human Services reports nearly 6 percent more of the state’s population has enrolled in Medicaid since the legislature, on December 1, 2023, approved Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget,…
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FDA Blocks Better Sunblocks – Commentary
Thanks in part to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Americans do not have access to all sunscreens The United States is in the full throes of summer. After a rainy spring, summer arrived in my home state of Texas a couple of months ago. The sun has burned off the cloud cover, and my…
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Hospitals Are Responsible for Rising Health Care Prices—Report
New data shows hospitals are responsible for escalating health care prices, due to the lack of market incentives to curb costs. A growing number of Americans are having difficulty paying their medical bills, due to rising health care prices. In response, some states are using tax dollars to help consumers pay off big medical bills,…
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Some Massachusetts Hospitals Don’t Report Drug-Dependent Newborns
Newborns at risk for lack of medical intervention. Major Massachusetts hospitals no longer regularly perform toxicology tests on newborns or report prenatal exposure to addictive substances to state welfare agencies unless there is other evidence of infant abuse or neglect. Mass General Brigham (MGB) changed hospital policy to address the “racial and ethnic inequities” present…
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California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment
California licensing laws are blocking a patient’s access to care from a medical specialist in another state, leaving her to go without help or make a 14-hour car trip for treatment in person. Shellye Horowitz of Trinidad, California, suffers from a rare bleeding disease affecting women and girls known as hemophilia A. There are no…
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‘Merits’ of the Inflation Reduction Act, Another Fiction Unmasked
‘Merits’ of the Inflation Reduction Act for seniors unmasked, with fewer innovative drugs and $280 billion siphoned from Medicare. (Commentary) By Ken Blackwell My, how things have changed in the past few weeks. By the time the Republican National Convention convened, the Democrats had hoped to be running President Biden on a platform touting the alleged success…
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