How one online pharmacy safety organization is partnering to combat the opioid addiction epidemic. Where there is a demand, there will be supply, and as the cost of healthcare and prescriptions has risen, the industry ...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contends that Medicare fraud is a serious issue. This type of fraud typically involves intentionally submitting false claims or making false referrals for health services. While unethical ...
These days, with the Supreme Court in the news so much, you may feel that you’ve heard it all about the American court system. However, there is a special court, called the vaccine court, which ...
Scientists at the NanoPhotonics Centre and the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis have developed an intelligent toilet that can analyze urine to determine health information and the presence of any drugs or alcohol. As soon ...
Riding His Harley to Abolish Medical Debt To many of the families who are helped, medical debt forgiveness may mean the difference between having adequate food and heat or going to bed hungry and cold. ...
On May 29, President Trump said during a campaign rally in Nashville, Tennessee, that opioid-related deaths have dropped and implied it was due to the $6 billion his administration committed to fighting the epidemic. But ...
An Australian woman, 64, has died after consuming frozen pomegranates. Her death was linked to Hepatitis A. The frozen pomegranates were grown in Egypt and marketed by Creative Gourmet. Just two months ago, about 2,000 ...
Just the mention of the word Ebola is enough to send chills down the spines of many folks. The killer disease endemic in Central Africa is viewed as a death sentence and is responsible for ...
There’s something tragic and unequivocally devastating happening to men in America today. During this #MeToo era, men are seen as rapists and misogynists when in fact most are gentlemen. Sadly, men are literally a ...
“It is a sign of courage and strength to come forward and get help.” – Give an Hour If the body is damaged or injured, most of us would be comfortable asking for help. But, if our ...
(The Conversation, by Jamie Smolen) For the first time in a while, pundits and politicians were talking about the drug that kills more people than any other each year in the U.S. I’m talking about alcohol, ...
To many people, an Obamacare expansion sounded like a good plan. Under Obamacare, the former president decreased the qualifying income amount, thus making millions of more people eligible for Medicaid. The social program was always ...
Over three decades ago, the United States Congress passed the Orphan Drug Act (ODA) in 1983. The act focused on encouraging drug development for rare diseases, which the agency defined as “affecting fewer than 200,000 ...
The outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria is described by researchers as the worst outbreak of its kind in history, having killed more people than all previous reported cases combined. More than 78 people have died ...
Both the CEO and President of Theranos, a once promising tech and medical startup that raised billions in venture capital, are now facing fraud charges. “You are one of five visionary tech entrepreneurs who are ...
Once again, scandal hits Kenya’s top hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), after brain surgery was performed on the wrong person. The newest KNH scandal comes just weeks after KNH made news headlines with stories of ...
It is been roughly four years since the Ebola virus hit West Africa, locals and ebola victims are still traumatized to date. The epidemic left over 11,000 people dead, with another 29,000 infected. Though it ...
Skin bleaching pills are increasingly being smuggled into Ghana via airport luggage. The rise in smuggling caused Ghana’s FDA to publicly warn against the dangers of skin bleaching pills. There is a growing trend in ...
Opioids are in the headlines again as drug company, Insys Therapeutics, faces another accusation of fraudulent marketing and bribing doctors. New York has become the latest state to take legal action against Insys Therapeutics. Eric ...
One woman chose to keep her both breasts rather than get one removed. To her, it was better to die from cancer than to be called a mutilated woman, or worse, get divorced. Breast cancer ...
In 2011, the U.S. DOJ indicted Thorsen on 22 counts of wire fraud & money laundering after he stole over a million dollars in CDC grant money. (Natural News, by Vicki Batts) Robert F. Kennedy ...
Now hopes to repeal Obamacare have been rekindled with the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Amendment. (The Conversation, by Simon Haeder, West Virginia University. At the end of July, the nation held its collective breath as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ...
“HHS won’t pay for Obamacare enrollment but they have plenty of cash for Secretary Tom Price’s private jet lifestyle.” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price once remarked that ...
Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and that’s bad news for humans. (Other Words, by Jim Hightower) Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buyout of Whole Foods isn’t only a win-win for both of them, ...
Drug expiration dates: hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer. This story ...
Why Market Competition Has Not Brought Down Health Care Costs (Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts Amherst). It is easier than ever to buy stuff. You can purchase almost anything on Amazon with a click, and it ...
The live oral polio vaccine is mutating and replicating wild polio. Polio is rare, very rare thanks to modern medicine. However, for the first time ever mutated forms of the oral polio vaccine paralyzed more ...
Before he was named Trump’s health secretary, Price took a congressional trip to Australia and pressed officials to extend protections for drug companies in an international trade agreement. (ProPublica, byRobert Faturechi) In the spring before ...