Interim CDC head Jay Bhattacharya invents a new “gold standard” to stop publication of studies showing COVID-19 vaccines had major benefits with minimal risk.
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Posted inHealth Care
RFK Jr. and the Perils of Peptides
The Health and Human Services Secretary’s push to deregulate unapproved peptides will inevitably lead to worse health outcomes.
Posted inHealth Care
The Trouble with Trump’s Pick to Run the FDA
Marty Makary is a surgeon, prolific author, and avowed contrarian. He’s not a kook but is reckless with the facts, draws dubious conclusions, and, like RFK Jr., could do more harm than good. What the U.S. Senate needs to know.
Posted inBooks
Medicine at the Mercy of Wall Street
The pharmaceutical industry is the great white whale of American medicine. No matter how many harpoons activists, progressive politicians, journalists, and scholars hurl at its bloated body, it not only survives, it grows fatter by feasting on the patients and payers that are the krill of the U.S. health care system. The drug price controls […]
Posted inPolitics
What’s Wrong with the FDA?
The FDA and the Biden administration’s nominee for commissioner, Robert Califf, are both deeply flawed.
Posted inMain, Political Animal, Politics
The FDA Is Broken
How the Food and Drug Administration messes up approval of new drugs including the new one, aducanumab, that supposedly helps Alzheimer’s disease patients.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
As FDA Readies Menthol Cigarette Ban, What’s Next?
Public health agencies need to make menthol smokers, Black and white, aware of safer alternatives. Anything less isn’t social justice.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal
The FDA Cut Off Covid Vaccine Testing. That Was a Really Bad Idea.
The shots are saving lives, but we don’t know their long-term effects thanks to an agency that often answers to industry instead of the public.
Posted inCover, Magazine, November/December 2016
Just the Medicine
How the next president can lower drug prices with the stroke of a pen.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2013
Beauty Tips for the FDA
Did my wife’s cosmetics give her breast cancer?
