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Patients

Jeffrey Singer talks about how patients deserve autonomy | Illustration: Adani Samat

Health Care

Jeffrey Singer: Get Government Out of Health Care

Longtime surgeon and Cato Institute fellow Jeffrey Singer argues that government overreach in health care undermines patient autonomy.

Nick Gillespie | 4.23.2025 11:00 AM

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FDA

Federal Court 'Vacates in Its Entirety' the FDA's Costly and Onerous Lab Test Rule

RFK Jr. should accept the ruling and instruct the agency to immediately halt all efforts to regulate laboratory-developed and in vitro tests.

Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2025 1:30 PM

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COVID-19

Do Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin Work?

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency, here's what the research says.

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2025 2:45 PM

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Civil Liberties

The Grassroots Campaign To Save a Man From Court-Ordered Shock Therapy

Despite severe risks and without a crime committed, a Minnesota judge authorized doctors to forcibly administer electroconvulsive therapy—while barring key witnesses from the hearing.

Michael Simonson | 2.14.2025 11:40 AM

Telehealth | Piotr Adamowicz/Dreamstime.com

Health Care

California's Telemedicine Restrictions Are Forcing Rare Disease Patients To Travel Out of State for Care

A new lawsuit argues the state's requirement that doctors must be licensed in California to do remote consultations with patients there is unconstitutional.

Christian Britschgi | 5.23.2024 3:00 PM

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Regulation

FDA Once Again Stands Athwart Biomedical Innovation, Yelling 'Stop!'

New red tape will result in fewer safe and effective diagnostic tests.

Ronald Bailey | 4.29.2024 4:15 PM

mifepristone pills and packaging against a gray spotlit background | Erin Hooley/TNS/Newscom

Abortion

The Unprecedented Judicial Move in the Texas Abortion Pill Decision

It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.

Jacob Linker | 4.13.2023 3:15 PM

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Drugs

We Need New Laws To Protect People in Pain

The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version.

Richard Lawhern | 2.14.2023 7:00 AM

President Biden's drug price controls are a lose-lose proposition that will end up killing more patients while increasing total health care spending. | Jacqueline Martin / Pool via CNP/AdMedia

Joe Biden

Biden's Drug Price Controls Will Kill More Patients in the Long Run

And increase total health care costs to boot.

Ronald Bailey | 2.9.2023 2:55 PM

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Pain treatment

The CDC's New Opioid Prescribing Advice Still Invites the 'Misapplication' It Blames for Harming Patients

The damage done by the original guidelines, including undertreatment and abrupt dose reductions, could have been avoided if the CDC had not presumed to advise doctors on how to treat pain.

Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2022 1:55 PM

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Cancer

More Bureaucracy Won't Cure Cancer

Biden's "supercharged" cancer moonshot is little more than a hollow promise.

Natalie Dowzicky | 2.2.2022 3:25 PM

Shock Treatment | J. KYLE KEENER/KRT/Newscom

Civil Liberties

Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment. One Connecticut Patient Has Been Shocked 500 Times in Five Years.

Despite concerns about efficacy and side effects, courts are slow to act on behalf of patients who don’t want the treatment.

Michael Simonson | 2.11.2020 10:45 AM

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FDA

FDA Get Out of the Way: Free to Choose Medicine

A petition by Tomorrow's Cures Today Foundation

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2015 4:46 PM

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Civil Liberties

Pregnant Women Warned: Consent to Surgical Birth or Else

As hospitals and courts collude, pregnant women are being excluded from fundamental decisions about how they give birth.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.31.2014 4:35 PM

Politics

The Medical Conflict of Interest Mania: Dr. Thomas Stossel on Regulating Doctors

Todd Krainin | 6.18.2014 12:25 PM

Pharmaceuticals

Evil Drug Companies Accused of Taking Advantage of the Bereaved

Ronald Bailey | 12.27.2012 12:32 PM

Politics

NYT Defines Obamacare Success: Fewer Options, but Better Coordinated

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.15.2011 12:54 PM

Politics

More Central Planning: The Failed Panacea for Health Care Reform

A rebuttal to The New Republic's latest prescription for health care reform

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2011 10:30 AM

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