After much criticism and the filing of a lawsuit by AAPS against it, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will host a series of town hall meetings this summer. This exercise is supposedly to “gather input […]

Posted on January 7, 2008  Many highly regarded hospitals in the U.S. routinely diagnose brain death without following the guidelines promulgated in 1995 by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), according to a survey presented […]

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Jane M. Orient, M.D. All eyes are on the BP gusher in the Gulf, spewing pollution over the shoreline, but there’s another big leak that will do even more […]

Who’s in Charge of Your Life? You, God, or the Government? Posted on September 22, 2010 By: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that […]

Posted on May 11, 2010 Now that the AMA has clearly sold out doctors on ObamaCare, people are beginning to ask just what this stakeholder has at stake. Hal Scherz, M.D., pediatric urologist in Atlanta, […]

Posted on October 17, 2008 The basic difference in the major candidates’ proposals for “health care reform,” according to Mark Pauley, writing in Health Affairs, is that McCain recognizes that workers earn their health benefits, […]

Posted on January 6, 2009 In its new health reform policy, replacing Health Access America, the American Medical Association writes: “We also believe that individuals with high incomes have a responsibility to obtain coverage for […]

Posted on June 9, 2008 After much criticism and the filing of a lawsuit by AAPS against it, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will host a series of town hall meetings this summer. This exercise […]

Posted on July 7, 2008 Perhaps hearing the complaints about the remote locations for its initial town hall meetings, the Texas Medical Board has finally agreed to hold one in Texas’s largest city, Houston, and […]