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Researchers Study Repurposing Old Drugs to Treat Cancer
A team of U.S. clinicians has launched a first-of-its-kind observational study on how repurposed drugs with expired patents, such as ivermectin, might help in treating cancer. The study, led by the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), began in February and is examining five-year survival rates for several types of cancers. Five hundred patients nationwide…
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States Revise Medical Licensing to Ease Doctor Shortage
Several states are extending medical licenses to foreign and assistant doctors to fill shortages of physicians that are projected to reach 86,000 nationwide, by 2036. Tennessee will become the first state to give provisional licenses to physicians with clinical experience who migrate to the United States, in 2025. Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Glenn…
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Lower-Income Americans Could Soon Have Access to HSAs
Lower-income Americans who get a cost-sharing reduction (CSR) from their Obamacare health insurance could soon set aside part of that money to spend on health care as they choose. The ACCESS Act, H.R. 5608, introduced by Reps. Greg Steube (R-FL) and Kat Cammack (R-FL), would allow individuals and families to put some of their CSR…
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France Criminalizes Opposition to mRNA Injections
France enacted a controversial new law in February that critics say could be used against anyone opposing injections with mRNA vaccines or other treatments recommended by the state and based upon current medical knowledge. The law aims to combat religious violence, but under one section, criticism of therapeutic treatments when mandatory or recommended by the…
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Texas Collects More than $700 Million from Medicaid Fraud Probes
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office has recovered more than $200 million in improper or fraudulent payments to medical providers, suppliers, and drug companies by the state’s Medicaid system in fiscal year 2023. The findings of the AG’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) and Civil Medicaid Fraud Division, and the Texas Health…
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Health Professionals Dodge Abortion Bans Using Telemed ‘Shield’ Laws
Health care professionals are not waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether it is constitutional to send abortion pills through the mail. Beginning in the summer of 2023, blue-state doctors have used a backdoor method to provide abortions to women in red states that have ostensibly banned or heavily restricted abortion procedures and…
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Legislation Aims to Protect Drug Research for Rare Diseases
U.S. House members introduced bipartisan legislation to reverse sanctions on small-molecule medicines in early February, providing new hope for people with rare diseases. Proposed by Reps. Greg Murphy, M.D. (R-NC), Don Davis (D-NC), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY), the Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee chairman, the Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act would reverse…
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Georgia Moves Certificate of Need Reform
Georgia moves Certificate of Need (CON) reform legislation that restricts most proposed medical facilities, reducing competition. By Matt Dean Certificate of Need (CON) restrictions prohibit most proposed medical facilities in Georgia. Diagnostic imaging facilities, surgical centers, nursing homes, birthing centers, and hospitals require burdensome CON approvals before a permit to build is even considered. Hospitals and…
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Food and Drug Administration to Remove Anti-Ivermectin Posts in Settlement
Food and Drug Administration to remove anti-ivermectin posts from the Internet in a settlement with doctors who sued the agency. By Debra Heine The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reportedly settled a lawsuit brought by three doctors who who accused the health regulator of interfering with their ability to practice medicine and prescribe Ivermectin to treat…
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Teens Home Alone, Using Drugs
More than half of adolescents misusing prescription drugs are doing so in isolation, increasing the risk of overdose deaths, according to a new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC reviewed data from 15,963 self-assessments of 13- to 18-year-olds who were screened for drug abuse treatment during the period…
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