President Biden and congressional Democrats have embarked on a major political experiment, testing the public’s willingness to delay gratification on seeing big benefits of a landmark measure with important elements to improve their health and wellbeing.
Is it more persuasive to regular folks that one political party is trying to tackle huge problems, or will relentless naysayers reap rewards for
They were a tortured part of the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis. They have become a painful aspect of the push to hold nursing home owners and operators accountable for the shambolic response to the coronavirus pandemic.
And they soon may be an obstacle to military veterans’ attempts to get justice for defective devices that were supposed to
Federal health officials have eased guidelines for most regular folks on how best to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, even as monkeypox cases and vaccination efforts for that viral illness keep increasing and the detection of once-controlled polio raises concern.
Indicators about the severity of the next influenza season also worry experts.
With the coronavirus, the federal Centers
With students returning to classes in a few weeks, motorists need to make an important safety pledge to youngsters and their communities in Washington, D.C.: Please, for goodness’ sake, slow down.
This is not happening as it should, putting kids at heightened risk, a new study has found. As the Washington Post reported:
“D.C. drivers traveling through school zones, where
They’re expensive and often uncovered by health insurance. They’re unfamiliar for now to many doctors, especially those in primary care. But — as expected — patients are hearing a lot about the effectiveness of new prescription medications aimed at treating diabetes and how these drugs have another positive outcome:
They help users lose weight, potentially lots of it.
Now, add
The nurses complained, and so did a handful of doctors. The patients howled. Yet, for years, administrators at a Florida hospital ignored the repeated alarms, critics say.
Now, 350 lawsuits have been filed and 100 more are expected, all asserting that Dr. Richard David Heekin, a seasoned orthopedist, suffered from a progressively debilitating, rare, neurologic condition that significantly impaired his
UNOS, the independent medical network responsible for procuring and distributing human organs for transplants in this country, needs big changes because it is failing desperate patients, making screening errors, among other missteps, that have killed dozens of them and caused hundreds to develop procedure-related diseases.
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of subpoenaed documents and
The ink was barely dry on statements from the head of the federal Food and Drug Administration about a planned external, independent review of the agency’s tobacco oversight division when one of its top regulators created a personnel stink of his own.
Matt Holman, chief of the office of science in FDA’s much-criticized Center for Tobacco Products, ended his 20-year
Big Pharma has run into a rare rough summer — and that could be positive news for all the rest of us regular folks. Just how? Consider:
When seniors need full-time institutional care, or when the injured or debilitated require similar 24/7 attention, loved ones — and even friends — must take care to read and re-read any documents that nursing homes and other long-term care facilities shove before them to sign during the stressful admissions process.
That’s because the owners and operators of the facilities soon
