First Abortion Doc Sued Under New Texas Law
Plus: The link between college and moral absolutism, environmental activists vs. Facebook, and more...
Doctors
Ohio Hospital Allowed To Stop Treating COVID-19 Patient With Ivermectin
Plus: Student-professor relationships and Title IX, web hosts reject abortion snitch website, and more...
Ohio Passes Controversial Conscience Clause for Doctors
Opposed by LGBT and pro-choice advocacy groups, the measure allows doctors to refuse to perform treatments on moral grounds
It's Time to Permanently Suspend Regulatory Barriers to Telehealth
Patients and providers should be able to meet remotely without bureaucrats getting in the way.
Telemedicine Abortion Gets Green Light From Federal Court
Plus: "Heartbeat law" ruled unconstitutional, introducing the Atlas of Surveillance, Brave New World reimagined, and more...
Make Pandemic-Related Occupational License Reform Permanent
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.
Doctors, Not Politicians, Ought To Decide Whether Off-Label Drug Use of Hydroxychloroquine Is Appropriate for COVID-19 Patients
The FDA lets doctors prescribe off-label drugs all the time. Now that there’s a pandemic, some governors have decided doctors can’t make those decisions for themselves.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Clears Medical Students To Work As Doctors During Coronavirus Emergency
Students who would have graduated this spring can start practicing medicine immediately.
300 Families Say Child Services Wrongly Accused Them of Abuse and Unjustly Stole Their Kids
"It’s an epidemic across our nation," one parent told NBC.
Foreign Lung Doctors Can Help Coal Country Residents. We Should Let Them.
But we first need to pass a bill to let more of them into the U.S.
Let Midwives and Nurse Practitioners Provide First-Trimester Abortions, Says Federal Court
"First trimester abortions, which typically require only medication, do not require the onsite presence of a licensed physician."
Iowa Eye Surgeon Wants to Open His Own Clinic. For 14 Years, His Competitors Have Stopped Him.
A lawsuit challenging Iowa's Certificate of Need laws goes before a federal judge today.
How Formerly Independent Doctors Were Pushed Out of Business
Rules and regulations intended to reform health care are driving private practices out of business by overconfident design.
Meet a Doctor Who Picks Patients Over Insurance Companies: Podcast
Ryan Neuhofel is part of a movement of "direct primary care" physicians who deal directly with patients.
These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance. Now They Treat Their Patients Like Valued Customers.
The "direct primary care" movement is attracting physicians sick of red tape. And it's transforming the doctor-patient relationship.
On Health Care, Private Sector May Show Congress the Way
Just because Congress can't fix health care doesn't mean it can't be done.
Suspect Statistics From Plastic Surgeon Society Say 'Gender Confirmation Surgeries' Up 19 Percent Last Year
There were 3,256 such surgeries in 2016, says the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. But how it got this number is anyone's guess.
Texas Law Would Permit Doctors to Lie to Patients About the Health of Their Fetuses
Everyone should be highly skeptical of state-sponsored eugenics.
