Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The American Medical Association and many other professional organizations demand “peer-reviewed science” before they will recommend or even accept the re-purposing of a long-established anti-malaria drug to treat or prevent COVID-19.

I hope you are doing well–for access to medical help is increasingly threatened.

How do you plan on surviving the Coronavirus? We have the ultimate list to help you make it through this pandemic!

Democratic Presidential candidates are in a bidding war over how many trillions they would spend to “fight climate change.” Would it be enough, soon enough, to save the planet?

The Democrats “debate” looked like an auction to me, or a poker game: “I’ll see you and raise you $10 trillion dollars!”

Healing the sick is what medicine is about. The politicians who promise to “fix healthcare” can only destroy medicine—while bankrupting the country.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)  (“AOC”) is unhappy that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to bring the Green New Deal to a vote—although Democrat presidential hopefuls support it.

While President Trump called for unity and cooperation in his 2019 State of the Union address, the views of the audience showed a sharp and bitter divide, especially on issues affecting the health and medical care of Americans.

This is the one hundredth anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. In his book The Great Influenza, John M. Barry described it as the deadliest plague in history.

Both parties and all candidates have deep flaws, and problems have no sound-bite solutions. But at this point in history, there is a civil war over foundational principles. The agenda of a candidate’s party counts.

A bill that would give doctors the right to defend themselves if brought before the state licensure board, the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME), was heard in the Louisiana state House of Representatives on May 2.

A “right to healthcare” is a seductive idea that many Americans accept without thinking. But we need to take a closer look at what this means.

The opioid crisis in America is real, it is lethal, and it may be killing the nice family that lives next door to you.