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Bold Advocate for Health Care Integrity and Honesty—Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. – Obituary
Never afraid to swim upstream—even at the risk of professional retaliation from entrenched interests with good reason to fear her—Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D., never forgot that the calling of a physician is to treat patients in need of care. Singleton, aged 77, died unexpectedly on June 18, according to the Association of American Physicians…
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FBI Targets Child Trans Treatment Whistleblowers
Two employees of Texas Children’s Hospital are facing the wrath of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged illegal secretive treatment of sex-confused children. In June, the DOJ indicted Eithan Haim, M.D., on four felony charges for exposing child transgender surgeries and hormone treatment of minors at Houston-based…
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‘South Park’ Mocks Massive Health Care Dysfunction: Review
Review of South Park: The End of Obesity (Paramount+), 50 minutes, 2024 The nation’s health care system has become so blatantly dysfunctional that the producers of the satirical television series South Park devoted an entire 50-minute episode to a serious matter—obesity—which manages to keep you laughing every single second. Granted, it’s South Park, where obscenities…
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Big Hikes in Seniors’ Drug Costs
Seniors are facing major increases in premiums for Medicare prescription drug plans (Part D) as well as higher prices at the pharmacy, under provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Instead of lowering health care costs, the IRA is a “masterplan in cost shifting,” says Joel White, founder and president of Horizon Government Affairs, a…
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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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Michael Barone: COVID Showed That Our Health Bureaucracy is a System Sure to Fail
Between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year, post-Cold War decline in defense spending and at a time when government agency budgets tended to be increased marginally or carried over from previous years. It was a bipartisan project put into effect…
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U.S. Supreme Court Upends Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement
U.S. Supreme Court upends Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement that would extinguish claims against Sackler family members. By Walter Olson In today’s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the Supreme Court confronted a recurring issue in the context of mass legal settlements: Should the courts uphold individualized justice, in the form of each plaintiff’s right to pursue each defendant, even if…
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Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., Medical Freedom Champion – R.I.P.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons released the following news about Marilyn Singleton shortly after 10 pm ET on June 18, 2024: “Today we have some very difficult news to share. Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD, a longtime member of the AAPS family, a true heroine of American medicine, and valiant defender of the patient-physician…
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U.S. Supreme Court Ignores Precedents in Abortion Pill Case
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling will keep the abortion pill available, with the justices declining to decide the merits of the case. In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the high court ruled unanimously the plaintiffs lacked standing, meaning they did not show an injury to themselves, on June 13. The court did not rule…
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