Patients have been turning to Google for diagnoses for years. Now, as artificial intelligence enters the medical world, their doctors may join them. Hospitals and research centers have announced partnerships with AI creators like Google and Microsoft for the last…
As drug prices rise, Congress has tossed about for a new villain in the healthcare industry — and it isn’t Big Pharma. Instead, there is an all-out campaign against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Ads on YouTube, news sites, Pinterest, and…
Unlax, doc! You can still order that double cheeseburger with super-duper fries and a Diet Coke to top it off. There’s no good evidence that the sweetener used in the numerous variations and names applied to sugar-free Coke products causes…
A number of FDA-approved weight-loss drugs have one thing in common: They are slightly effective. Among them are orlistat, phentermine-topiramate, and naltrexone-bupropion. I actually took a combination that worked for a while (fen-phen), but in 1997 the FDA banned it because…
Why is Congress continuing to help Big Pharma avoid accountability and suck every penny it can from Main Street? From July 2021 to July 2022, major pharmaceutical companies inflated the prices of over 1,000 drug products by over 31 percent…
As of this week, the Food and Drug Administration no longer requires all drugs to be tested on animals before human trials. Judging from some of my recent articles blasting the agency for approving drugs with little or no evidence…
A video resurfaced on Monday by anti-transitioning activist Chris Elston shows a group of Los Angeles pediatricians telling the 2018 Gender Spectrum conference that they conducted gender reassignment surgeries on children and adolescents. Kaiser Permanente gender specialist Kellyn Lakhardt tells…
For trial lawyers, Big Pharma, and assorted other profiteers off American misery, the Supreme Court case Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank is like holy water thrown in the face of a vampire. They cannot abide exposure to it and will shrink…
For years America’s drugmakers relied on Republicans to protect them. Democrats led the campaign for price controls and other restrictions. So the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, the major industry association, worked closely with the GOP to…
