The pandemic took an incalculable toll on the nation’s physicians. We will be unraveling its impact for...
Medicine
Delta-8 is the most common of the non-psychoactive cannabinoids found in cannabis, and it is legal in...
Those empty shelves of cattle dewormer at the local feed store speak to this typically American resistance....
Even under the ACA, many uninsured people cite the high cost of insurance as the main reason...
An intriguing look into the medical practices of Europe some 600 years ago. As the world grapples...
It was just a Trojan horse to privatize Medicare. By Thom Hartmann Over 100 Democratic lawmakers last week introduced...
Creative new payment systems will be necessary to ensure everyone has equal access to these therapies. Introduction...
The loud voices against the vaccine don’t proclaim their own fears. Getting a COVID-vaccine is now totally...
People who forge their own vaccine cards, or buy forged cards, are already facing legal problems, including...
Reviewing the health and economic consequences of counterfeit drugs on the U.S. public and on the healthcare...
An historian of the industry explains that drug companies once opposed patents altogether. Introduction The United States,...
America’s founders accepted the reality of human selfishness. But, they also said people were capable of thinking...
Two places in particular have been suggested as the original ‘birthplace of inoculation’. Edward Jenner (1749–1823), a...
Libertarians are known for an idiosyncratic concept of individual liberty. As the super-contagious Delta variant of Covid rips...
Ancient and medieval people often looked to the stars in times of medical uncertainty. This article, The...
“There is a cult of ignorance in America, and there always has been.” Behold, if you dare, dumb...
Technological advancements have changed the way we do things in our everyday life. It improves and develops...
LGBGT+ communities in the U.S. were well equipped to get residents health and social services early in...
Advice on how to deal with the 1918 pandemic will sound familiar to use today. By Dr....
New variants of the COVID-19 virus can be more contagious and cause more severe disease than the...
George Washington knew the horrors of smallpox from personal experience. Health officials are welcoming celebrity endorsements of...
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats in the world. The Big Idea A new...
Different factors contributed to the learned medicine tradition through the more open attitudes of Renaissance humanism. Introduction...
Health research and privacy protections both provide valuable benefits to society, and the two topics are interrelated....
Entities that must follow the HIPAA regulations are called “covered entities.” This doesn’t include everyone. Introduction Most...
HIPAA is widely misunderstood and taken to mean something it doesn’t – and assumed to provide protections...
After settling in Binghamton, Kilmer set to work developing and selling homeopathic remedies. The Bottle This bottle...
The English word pharmacology or pharmacy derives from the Greek word pharmakon, which means both remedy and poison,...
As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as an historian, he searched for...
He raised donations to pay local doctors to perform the procedure and to pay poor families for...