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Study Raises Questions About the Safety of mRNA Shots
A study in the journal Nature is raising alarms about just how much wasn’t known about the mRNA shots for COVID-19 before billions of people received them. The study, titled “N1-methylpseudouridylation of mRNA causes +1 ribosomal frameshifting,” was published on December 5 and had 20 authors, led by researchers at Cambridge University’s Medical Research Center…
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Physician Sues New Jersey Over Bar on Out-of-State Telehealth
A Boston-based physician who specializes in the treatment of rare childhood cancers is suing the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners for barring out-of-state physicians from telehealth consultations with Garden State patients across state lines. The case, Shannon MacDonald, M.D., et al. v. Otto Sabando, filed in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey,…
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Genetic Test for Opioid Addiction Wins FDA Approval
Patients now have access to a prescription genetic test that could indicate their risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) before beginning treatment with an opioid pain medication. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved AvertD, the first test of its kind, on December 19. The test, manufactured by AutoGenomics, Inc., can be used before a…
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FDA Wants to Expand Authority to Include Lab Developed Tests
After 30 years of wrangling with industry and Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in the formal process of trying to expand its authority to regulate lab developed tests (LDTs). The agency is reviewing some 6,707 comments it received during the 60-day comment period, which ended on December 4. The FDA contends LDTs…
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Progressive Policies Expand Medicaid, Increase Dependency
Progressive policies expand Medicaid, increasing the number of people dependent on government for health care. By Eileen Griffin Medicaid spending has increased significantly as progressive policies made access easier and eliminated accountability. Medicaid expenditures increased 9.6 percent between 2021 and 2022, the Washington Examiner reports. In 2022, the program cost taxpayers $805 billion. The Affordable…
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Medicare Cuts Physician Reimbursements
Medicare has cut payments to doctors for 2024 by 1.25 percent due to a 3.34 percent reduction in the “conversion factor” used to calculate reimbursement rates under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The cut follows a 2 percent physician payment reduction in 2023. Medicare’s “conversion factor” is a complicated system that assigns value to a…
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Betsy McCaughey: Free Health Insurance For Migrants Is Lunacy
Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and break into rich countries. The United States is their No. 1 destination. The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life.…
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