medical ethics
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Strategy
The FDA Seeks a New Way to Review Old Drugs Without Causing Prices to SoarThe departing Trump administration unexpectedly ended the FDA program that led to a price spike for colchicine and other older...
Finance
Nonprofit Hospitals' Charity Care Falls Short of Favorable Tax TreatmentMore than half (54%) of government hospitals, 36% of nonprofits, and 43% of for-profits provided less than $1 of charity...
Covid-19
Events of 2020 Moved Medical Students to Political ActivismTo many, getting involved in politics quickly became as much a professional responsibility as studying human anatomy or shadowing residents...
Strategy
Getting a Prescription to Die Remains Tricky Even as Aid-in-Dying Bills Gain MomentumThose who back the bills say the aid is morally wrong while opponents say criminalizing the practice would be a...
Covid-19
Some Dream — Others Scheme — To Find a Vaccine Before Spring BreakRumors on campus abound about students who are exploiting loopholes and getting vaccinated against COVID in order to party and...
Clinical Care
Doctors Debate Use of Blood Thinners to Prevent Clots in Women After C-SectionsThere's sharp debate among physicians about whether wide use of heparin is effective, worth the cost and safe, since it...
Clinical Care
University of Missouri Settles Lawsuits Over Knee Surgeries Involving VeterinarianThe 22 plaintiffs, a handful of whom were minors, filed suits from 2018 through 2020 over "BioJoint" surgeries pioneered by...
Covid-19
To Extract More Doses per Vial, Vaccinators Put Squeeze on FDA to Relax Vaccine Handling AdvicePharmacists want to use a single hypodermic needle to withdraw leftover vaccine from two vials from which all full doses...
Clinical Care
Flurry of Bills Aim to Set Limits on Transgender Kids – And Their DoctorsAt least 16 states are considering measures that would affect transgender athletes or those seeking treatment for gender dysphoria.
Clinical Care
Gene Screenings Hold Disease Clues, but Unexplained Anomalies Often Raise FearsGenetic testing can unsettle patients because many genetic findings are ambiguous, leaving doctors uncertain about whether a particular variant is...
Strategy
Employees Press HCA to Suspend Political Donations Following Capitol AttackEmployees say the hospital chain has donated to many GOP lawmakers implicated in last week's turmoil, including Sen. Josh Hawley,...
Covid-19
Hospitals' Rocky Rollout of Covid Vaccine Sparks Questions of FairnessThe initial rollout has been uneven at best because of a lack of a federal strategy on how it should...