The COVID-19 vaccine was developed and distributed with unprecedented speed, including to pregnant women. Maternal-fetal medicine specialist James A. Thorp, M.D., and colleagues analyzed reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) of events […]
Despite official reassurances that adverse effects of COVID vaccines are rare or mild, patients still have concerns and social media is filled with reports. In the winter issue of the of the Journal of American […]
Physicians who suffer irreparable harm to professional reputation and career as a result of unfair, bad-faith peer review have little recourse, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the winter issue of the of the Journal […]
Advocacy groups have launched a nationwide campaign promoting delicensure of doctors who allegedly disseminate mis- or disinformation related to the COVID pandemic, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). A family physician, Steven […]
Medical specialty boards are destroying their own credibility by threatening to decertify some of their most experienced and widely published diplomates, according to an open letter published in the fall issue of the Journal of […]
Medical specialty boards are attempting to silence physicians who offer nonapproved COVID-19 treatment, or who counsel about adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines, by threatening to revoke their hard-earned board certification, writes attorney Andrew Schlafly in […]
The serious scientific and moral issues with the concept of brain death are coming to the fore with proposals to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), writes Doyen Nguyen, M.D.,S.T.D., in the fall […]
Hospitals and many other entities are required to track adverse events, and most now use incident reporting software for this purpose, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American […]
Despite the importance of fertility, the question of the effect of COVID-19 vaccines is not yet clearly answered, writes Jane Orient, M.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. “The […]
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, current trends may result in more abortion complications, writes Ingrid Skop, M.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians […]
