As we gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, with many worrying about the impossibly high cost of health insurance, let’s play a…
The government shutdown is ostensibly a battle over healthcare: what to do about the expense, healthcare’s unaffordability. Republicans want to…
Medicare will pay for OxyContin immediately, no questions asked. But the new FDA-approved pain medication, which doesn’t risk addiction? That…
Wednesday I was up almost all night with a cruel stomach and intestinal ailment. Your humble servant has been tormented…
As America’s organ transplant system faces scrutiny from the Department of Health and Human Services for a “systemic disregard for…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated reforms of the country’s organ transplant system on Monday after…
“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?” sang Pete Seeger in his 1960s protest ballad. If he were…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before a House subcommittee about the HHS’s proposed 2026 budget on Tuesday, making…
