January 22, 2020
(ABC News) – The federal government took Ohio’s side Tuesday in a lawsuit over a state law prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome. “Nothing in Ohio’s law creates a substantial obstacle to women … Read More
January 22, 2020
(Quartz) – Somewhere along the way, my title as a doctor has been reduced to “provider,” and my worth dictated by administrators, insurance companies—and the government. The Hippocratic Oath I earnestly recited upon starting medical school is challenged everyday by … Read More
January 22, 2020
(STAT News) – I have seen the impact of unrestrained cannabis marketing firsthand in my work as president of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, a health economist at the University of Southern California, and former co-director … Read More
January 22, 2020
(STAT News) – The World Health Organization on Wednesday delayed a decision on whether to declare the ongoing outbreak of a novel virus that originated in China a global health emergency, with the head of the agency saying experts needed … Read More
January 22, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – One key question is whether patients with dementia ? or those who fear the disease ? can say in advance that they want oral food and fluids stopped at a certain point, a move that would … Read More
January 22, 2020
(NPR) – Johnston, like many family caregivers, was surprised that her mother’s hospice provider left most of the physical work to her. She says that during the final weeks of her mother’s life, she felt more like a tired nurse … Read More
January 22, 2020
(Associated Press) – Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning that a new viral illness that has infected more than 400 people and killed at least 17 could spread … Read More
January 22, 2020
(NPR) – A study in the New England Journal of Medicine this month confirmed that repeat hospitalizations did indeed drop for participants in the Camden program — but the result was no better in that regard than the results from … Read More
January 22, 2020
(The New York Times) – By calling our health care system unfriendly, then, I mean to underscore not hostile or antagonistic but tardy, hurried or distant responses from clinicians — careless care generally related less to their personal failures and … Read More
January 21, 2020
(BBC) – For four years, Richard Hoskins lived as a woman. But he now believes it was a reaction to the trauma of losing three children, rather than relating to his gender identity. He has now detransitioned, and tells the … Read More
