The excoriation of Attorney General Barr at the congressional hearing was as low as politicians could go on the lack of humanity and civility scale. The Barr hearing was more like a Roman circus than a search for answers to important national issues. If this is what congress calls performing their duty under the Constitution, […]
20,000 more Americans have died while the FDA has delayed since July 1 a new emergency use approval for outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19. On July, 1 Henry Ford Hospital physicians and researchers in Detroit filed an urgent request to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn for a new outpatient Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD The COVID-19 lockdown has its benefits: a chapter a day of the unabridged version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, a study in fear and redefined “normal” values, among many other lessons. Lately I’ve seen face coverings stenciled with “I can’t breathe.” The beauty of the statement is its […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. – https://vivelifecenter.com/ Stunning positive news on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was released in early July, potentially opening up medical freedom at the time of America’s celebration of our Declaration of Independence from British tyranny 244 years ago. During the first six days of July, SIX positive clinical studies of HCQ were released: […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The dictionary definition of “hype” is a deception or put-on, or promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind. But regarding medical advances, it might be used to refer to hope. Hope, or “false hope,” is something doctors are not supposed to give patients regarding a non-established treatment for a […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD I grew up in a segregated neighborhood where within three months of our Doberman’s death, our house was burglarized 4 times. Thus, a new architectural feature: burglar bars. I can’t imagine my old neighborhood with no police to protect us. Our experience reflected the 2016 and 2019 studies showing […]
By Paul M. Kempen, MD, PhD While every death is a tragedy and there have been many due to contracting COVID-19 from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, almost 3 million Americans die in a year from all sources, based on in 2017 CDC numbers. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm However, we still do not know with certainty the actual number of […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Politicians are a strange lot. Not content with merely being Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is moonlighting as Surgeon General, opining on what medications the President should be taking. Service to the public is a distant memory. The new charge is to invent catchy phrases, like the “new […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. – https://vivelifecenter.com/ What President Trump called a potential “game-changer” in the battle against COVID-19—a safe, cheap, effective treatment, available NOW—is suddenly seen as a highly dangerous drug. Of the fake news and misinformation that has proliferated in this pandemic, the most harmful is the claim that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. – https://vivelifecenter.com/ FDA Bureaucrat Brags On Blocking Physicians Prescribing Hydroxychloroqine in Early COVID-19 By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. How could a cheap, effective drug, FDA-approved and in use worldwide since 1955, suddenly be restricted for outpatient use by American physicians? On March 28, 2020, as physicians worldwide were seeing striking […]