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Jun 27, 2015 By a vote of 5-3, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to block two key provisions of a 2013 Texas abortion law. The first provision requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting … Continue reading U.S. Supreme Court Decides Against Two Provisions of 2013 Texas Abortion Law
Here's the table of contents of Trump's book: Winning Again Our "Unbiased" Political Media Immigration: Good Walls Make Good Neighbors Foreign Policy : Fighting for Peace Education: A Failing Grade The Energy Debate: A Lot … Continue reading Book Review | Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again | Donald J. Trump
Oct 15, 2015: An article published on October 10, 2015, in The Lancet medical journal entitled "Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies" describes the … Continue reading Cigarette Smoking in China
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), usually referred to as Planned Parenthood, is a non-profit organization that provides sexual and reproductive health care, education, information, and maternal and child health services in the United States. … Continue reading Planned Parenthood
In Detroit, Michigan in August of 2013, Dr. Farid Fata was arrested and charged with fraud for treating patients with medically unnecessary oncology and hematology treatments and then billing Medicare for $35 million. Fata pleaded … Continue reading The Health Care Fraud Case of Dr. Farid Fata
Jun 18, 2015: The U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release entitled "National Medicare Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Against 243 Individuals for Approximately $712 Million in False Billing". The press release states: Attorney … Continue reading Medicare Fraud
Immunotherapy is a relatively new form of treatment for cancer that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer cells. It's also referred to as biological therapy or biotherapy. Immunotherapy drugs work in different … Continue reading Immunotherapy and Cancer
On March 29, 2015, the 60 Minutes program on CBS aired an episode entitled Killing Cancer. The episode follows the experimental cancer immunotherapy treatments for four patients, all with cancerous Glioblastoma brain tumors, participating in … Continue reading CBS 60 Minutes | Killing Cancer | Immunotherapy
CRE (carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) are a family of germs, difficult to treat because they are highly-resistant to antibiotics. Because of this, the death rate of people who become infected with CRE is high (maybe as high … Continue reading CRE | Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae | Superbug
Feb 6, 2015: The Canadian Supreme Court ruled unanimously that doctor-assisted suicide is legal for "competent adults who are suffering intolerably from a grievous and irremediable medical condition", which overturns a ban established in 1993. … Continue reading Canada Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Doctor-Assisted Suicide