medicine

Ivermectin can help against COVID-19. Why don’t more people talk about it?

Clinical trials do more than inform us whether a drug is effective. They inform us when a drug is effective, in what combinations, in what dosages, and what are the counter indications.

If the COVID-19 crisis has taught us one thing—aside from the need to wash your hands often—it is that the FDA’s approval process for much-needed medicine to those with debilitating and terminal diseases is in dire need of reform.

The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.

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

There is no question that a means testing regime ought to be in place, but by what standards and who makes that determination is what must be reexamined and changed.

According to a new analysis released last month, Americans spent $3.65 trillion dollars on health care in 2018 – more than the entire gross domestic product of Canada.

If the government is the ultimate authority on your “health care,” remember that its tools for checking whether a child has a life-threatening disease such as meningitis include battering rams and assault rifles.

With all the talk about “evidence-based medicine,” you might think that doctors were becoming much more focused on rigorous science.

At last, regulatory flexibility for the seriously ill from the FDA.

Savage joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton on today’s HCN Podcast to explain how direct primary care providers can afford to offer top-flight care for low- and middle-income patients … without insurance. Savage also distinguished direct primary care from a model with which it is often confused: the uber-expensive “concierge medicine.”

The Republicans are at it again: trying to tweak a bad idea, make it “bipartisan,” and set a flawed system more firmly in concrete. What we really need is a Republican reform – one that can restore the republic, along with medicine.

When government “helps” run something – that something is terrible. The bigger a hand government has in running it – the more terrible it is. If it is exclusively government-run – the terrible-ness is ingrained and inherent. And the longer government runs the show – the worse the terrible-ness becomes.