Healthcare Archives

Avandia: A Case Study in Big Pharma-FDA Collusion

Pharmaceutical manufacturer SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline, found in a 1999 study that its diabetes medicine, Avandia, posed serious heart attack risks — then...

Michael Tennant July 15, 2010

The Goal Is Rationed Care

William P. Hoar July 14, 2010

Item: “Only a few months after the heated battles on Capitol Hill,” said Time for June 14, “it must have been quite a...

Donald Berwick: “One Man Death-Panel”

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. July 9, 2010

President Obama is under fire from the Left and the Right after his decision to recess appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head the...

Obama Recess Appointment Calls for Redistribution of Wealth

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. July 7, 2010

The latest controversy brewing over President Obama's proclivity for circumventing the legislative branch (and the Constitution) is his recess appointment of Dr. Donald...

A Breakthrough for Schizophrenia? Part I: Speculation Surrounds Babies’ MRIs

Beverly K. Eakman July 6, 2010

With brave new “apps” on the market every few weeks, high-tech hearing aids that use radio signals instead of microphones, DNA diagnostics for...

Millions of Expired Swine-flu Vaccines To Be Destroyed As Criticism Mounts

Alex Newman July 2, 2010

Amidst strong criticism of governments’ responses to the swine flu H1N1 hysteria, nearly half of the more than 150 million swine flu vaccines...

ObamaCare Gives Small Business the Business

Michael Tennant July 1, 2010

Economist Robert Higgs wrote a paper in 1997 arguing that “regime uncertainty” — “a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their...

Overtreated to Death

June 30, 2010

From the “more is better” school of thought comes the idea that more of anything, including healthcare treatments is better, yet studies show...

House Republicans Detail ObamaCare’s Broken Promises

Michael Tennant June 29, 2010

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on June 23 released a report entitled ObamaCare: Three Months of Broken Promises. The 41-page document (PDF)...

GOP-favored Alternatives to ObamaCare

Michael Tennant June 29, 2010

Though a recently released report by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) does a fairly thorough and convincing job of contrasting the reality...

Rep. Steve King Tries to Force House Vote on ObamaCare Repeal

Michael Tennant June 29, 2010

President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, into law on March 23. Immediately several U.S....