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Private Equity Buyouts of Health Care Facilities Comes With Cost to Patients

Los Angeles School District Encourages Sick Students to Attend Classes

EcoHealth Alliance Sued by Families for Funding Chinese Institute Linked to Mutant SARS-CoV-2

Big Pharma’s Influence on U.S. Medical Schools is Significant

by Carolyn Hendler, JD

February 12, 2023

An informal survey of medical schools conducted in 2005 by National Public Radio (NPR) showed that a number of universities and academic ...

AAP Says Obese Children Should Be Treated “Aggressively” With Drugs and Surgery

by Natasha Hobley

February 5, 2023

New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) state that obese children should be evaluated and treated “early and aggressively” with ...

Gallup Poll: More Americans Dissatisfied With Quality of Health Care

by Rishma Parpia

February 5, 2023

A recently released Gallup poll revealed that, for the first time in 20 years, less than half of all Americans are very ...

Study Finds 25 Percent of Hospitalizations Result in Health Care Related Injuries

by Rishma Parpia

January 23, 2023

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that hospital related adverse events were identified in nearly one ...

Big Pharma’s Influence in Shaping the U.S. Medical Model

by Natasha Hobley

January 22, 2023

The United States is the most medicated country in the world, with 70 percent of Americans using at least one prescription drug ...

U.S. Keeps COVID Vaccine Mandate for Non-Citizens Entering Country by Air

by Rishma Parpia

January 15, 2023

On Jan. 4, 2023, the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) extended its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for non-citizens and non-immigrants traveling to ...