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The hotly anticipated study helped convince the agency to revise its guidance on mask-wearing earlier this week. Read More
The agency spreads needless worry about vaccinations. Read More
Early in the pandemic, coronavirus lockdowns were supported by two primary arguments. First, the mortality rate of the virus was high enough... Read More
According to data from the CDC, just 0.004 percent of the 163 million Americans who have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine have gotten serious... Read More
The aim should always have been to guard against hospital capacity concerns and deploy COVID-19 vaccines widely. Read More
The agency cited an outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., in which most of the infected were immunized. Unpublished internal documents paint an... Read More
Joe Biden announced his administration's new efforts to increase coronavirus vaccinations — and got some things wrong while winging it. Read More
The timing was a coincidence. The contrast, unmistakable.Reporters had gathered in the East Room Thursday afternoon for an update on the next... Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest confused pronouncement about masks is another blow to the embattled agency, whose... Read More
At a time when the student COVID positivity rate in NYC is 0.01%, the governor is spreading fear that school buildings are death traps. Read More
The legacy of Medicare and Medicaid after 56 years is one of relentless growth — in enrollees and in spending. Read More
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Because people will continue to fall ill, there will be an ongoing need for treatments, which are currently in short supply. Read More
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One of the most infuriating aspects of a year replete with illogical, short-sighted public health mandates has been the utter failure of... Read More
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Today's Topics
- Gray Markets
- For Consumers: More Ecommerce, More Gray Market … Please
- Why Can't Americans Buy Contact Lenses From Vending Machines?
- A Bad Deal on Contact Lenses
- Lawsuits Shouldn't Threaten Consumer Choice
- If You Wear Contact Lenses, This Lawsuit Could Affect You
- Alcon Can't Clear New Contact Lens Price-Fixing Claims
- The Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice
- The Physician's Corner
- Reaper Care Is Not Health Care
- Are Virtual House Calls the Future of Medicine?
- On Health Care, Hispanics Reject Government Meddling
- Will the Real Joe Biden Please Stand up on Health Care?
- Top-down Health Care Doesn't Work – in Oregon or Anywhere Else
- Portable Health Insurance Will Drive Health Care Savings
- Nursing Homes Need Support, not Blame, During the Pandemic
- Health Care: a Personal Option v. 'The Public Option'
- Trump and Biden Are Wrong on Top-down Health Care
- It's Health Care, Stupid: Where do the Candidates Stand on Drug Prices
- 340B Drug Pricing Program
- Digital Health
- Google Launches Android App to Collect Data for Health Research
- Google Health Data Project Under Scrutiny
- Owning Personal Health Records Is the Key to Medical Innovation
- RealClear Digital Health
- Research, Big Data and Patient Privacy
- If We Hope to Better Face the Next Health Care Crisis …
- Digital Health Is Closing the Gap in Cancer Care
- Google Troubling Diktat on Contact-Tracing Apps
- Video Highlights
- 'Google v. Oracle' Watch
- Google's Free Piracy Pass
- Will the Supremes Destroy What Good Came From 2020?
- No (Last-) October Surprise for Digital Health
- Google v Oracle: Is Plagiarism Legal?
- Beware of Google's Foray into Health Care
- Google's Secret Cache of Medical Data
- SCOTUS Opens Politically Charged Term With Google v. Oracle
- Google, Oracle Meet in IPR Clash at Supreme Court
- Google v. Oracle: A RealClearHealth ‘Pen Panel' Symposium
- SCOTUS to Rule: Was Google Success Built On Stolen IP?
- Google v. Oracle: Google's Fair Use Will Unfairly Hurt Patients
- Endgame: Google v. Oracle
- Google v. Oracle and the Future of Health Innovation
- What's Next Google v. Oracle
- Surprise Medical Bills
- Big Insurance Pushes Bad Medicine
- Patients Lose if Congress Tries Relief Bill Trickery
- GOP Must Reject Crony ‘Surprise Medical Billing' Plan
- Just Say ‘No' to Price Controls
- Coalition Against Rate-Setting (CARS)
- Don't Put Insurance Handout into Next COVID Package
- Health Care Price Transparency
- Don't Bail out Big Insurance in Coronavirus Legislation
- Economists Urge Lawmakers to Reject Healthcare Rate-Setting
- Medicare for All
- It's Time to Reimagine Health Care
- How Medicare-for-All Would Make Your Health Care Worse, Not Better
- Warren's Plan to Fund Medicare-for-All a Big Fantasy That Hurts and Penalizes Small Business
- Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-All Means Worse Health Insurance at Higher Cost for Most Americans
- V.P. Biden's Plan Is Really a Side Door to Medicare-for-All
- The Republican Strategy to Pass Medicare-for-All Continues
- Drug Prices
- Trump Says U.S. States Will Be Able to Buy Prescription Drugs Abroad
- Poster Child for How Drug Companies Abuse Patent System
- Big Pharma Sinks to the Bottom of U.S. Industry Rankings
- Trudeau's Drug-Price Overhaul Is Set to Cost Drugmakers Billions
- How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans
- There Is No Single, Best Policy for Drug Prices
- Trump Fixates on Drug Prices as Campaign Looms
- No End in Sight to Rising Drug Prices
- The Rebate System Spikes Drug Prices, Scripps Study Confirms
- The Messaging War Over Drug Prices
- Big Pharma's Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn't Add Up
- Examination of International Drug Pricing Policies
- OPIOID CRISIS
- Opioid Crackdown Could Lead to More Drug Company Bankruptcies
- Cities and States Look to Big Pharma to Cover Costs of the Opioid Epidemic
- Using Opioids to Treat Addiction Is the Gold Standard. So Why Aren't More Docs Prescribing Them
- 50 States Ranked by Opioid Overdose Death Rates
- Opioid Crisis Brings Attention to Wealthy Family
