By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Planet of the Humans, a Michael Moore vehicle, came and went with little fanfare. Perhaps it was the message that our feeble attempts at halting climate change were just that: feeble and useless. Solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and the like were criticized as mere “band-aids” and corporate […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. The FDA denied August 10 the urgent request for emergency approval for COVID-19 outpatient preventive and early treatment use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) filed July 1 by Dr. John McKinnon’s team at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, supported by Dr. Peter McCullough’s cardiology team at Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in […]
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, write that “the FDA’s actions regarding [hydroxychloroquine] HCQ may be directly costing lives by limiting outpatient access to this […]
September 1, 2020 Update: AAPS Reply in Support of Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-9-1-2020.pdf August 20, 2020 Update: AAPS files Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-8-20-2020.pdf August 14, 2020 Update: AAPS files Notice of Appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from the final Judgment of the United […]
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5002 Offered August 18, 2020. Prefiled August 14, 2020 Encouraging that hydroxychloroquine should be made available for treating COVID-19. Patrons– LaRock, Cole, M.L. and Walker WHEREAS, Virginia is immersed in a public health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in significant loss of life; and WHEREAS, during the […]
On Monday the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on its lawsuit to end governmental interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The Respondents include the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human […]
By Lionel Lee, DO, FACOEP “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” The Constitution plainly and clearly states the importance of allowing every American, including physicians, to speak freely without concern for censorship. By now, most […]
Volume 76, no. 8 August 2020 It is certain that the COVID-19 pandemic will end, just as all previous, mostly worse pandemics did (https://tinyurl.com/r4xhshy). A disease from which more than 99.5% recover cannot wipe out the human species. The SARS-CoV-2 virus may vanish, like SARS-CoV-1. Or there may be recurrent waves, as with the 1918 […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. 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 […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends, Earlier this week courageous physicians stood on the steps of the US Supreme Court to tell the world about the consequences of government bureaucrats blocking their ability to care for their patients during a pandemic. To say that what they had to say resonated with Americans would be a severe […]