On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, host Melissa Mackenzie is joined by Dr. Eithan Haim, a Texas Children’s Hospital general surgeon. Haim discusses his ongoing legal battles after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s secret transgender. They comment on the important…
The American summer of strikes is slowly growing to include the fall. On Wednesday morning, 75,000 nurses, medical technicians, and other health care workers employed by Kaiser Permanente went to picket lines instead of to work in hospitals and at…
The highly respected journal STAT has just published an article declaring that the dreaded “Long COVID is a new name for an old syndrome.” Preposterous! Incredible! Absurd! Ridiculous! Farcical! Toss in a few more synonyms! No, not at all. Just…
Every year, millions of Americans depend on drugs like carboplatin, a common cancer drug, and antibiotics to save their life, but that doesn’t mean they’re readily available. America’s drug shortage problem, which has been festering for decades, has become a…
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this piece stated that the Republican letter was authored by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. The correct author is Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch. The Department of Health and Human Services has found a…
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…
A proposed Ohio bill has the potential to insidiously diminish parents’ rights in relation to their children’s medical care. The amendment, “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety,” to Article I of the Ohio Constitution was…
Though the HIPAA Privacy Rule grants parents access to medical records until a child turns 18, many overruling state policies allow minors to consent to medical treatment without parental involvement. The Federalist recently published a piece by Amy Haywood that breaks…
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…
As Pride Month ends, we must remember that schools aren’t the only centers of liberal indoctrination — therapy is, too. Practitioners of psychological counseling are imposing their liberal worldview on people of all ages in their most vulnerable moments, like…