In the late 1980s, AIDS activists stormed the headquarters of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a message that the FDA’s drug approval process was, simply put, killing […]
US healthcare
Joel Lexchin: We’ve missed an opportunity to debate FDA funding and user fees
In mid-August 2017, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, signed the FDA Reauthorization Act 2017, under which drug and device makers pay the FDA a fee for every […]
Allen Frances: We must not confuse Trump’s bad behavior with mental illness
Trump must be contained, but the proper tools are political, not psychiatric […]
Nancy Krieger: Are hate crimes a public health issue?
It is critical to identify structural racism is a key determinant of population health […]
James Brophy on Unanticipated Outcomes: Why Jerome Kassirer’s story is still so relevant
Although Jerome Kassirer is a familiar name to many physicians of a certain age, there is perhaps now a generation of young health professionals who are not acquainted with this […]
Nathaniel P Morris: US medical licensing applications ask too much about mental health
Asking about applicants’ mental health history risks driving physicians and trainees away from self care and deeper into distress […]
Junaid Nabi: Voting rights are a public health issue
Last week the Republican party’s attempt to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) collapsed before promptly being revived again. The new bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), had previously received […]
Junaid Nabi: Can addressing the spiritual needs of patients help us deliver high quality end of life care?
Should doctors only engage in conversations about life, death, and dying when it pertains to clinical matters? Or is spiritual care part of a physician’s duties? […]
Abraar Karan: Has medical education done a disservice to new physicians?
With thousands of newly minted physicians around the United States and internationally about to start their medical internships, teaching hospitals, residents, and attending physicians are gearing up for what has […]
Chris Simms: Russian dolls—revealing Trump’s diminution of the common good
A few weeks ago, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H R McMaster and Gary Cohn, astonished many in the world community when they wrote in The Wall Street Journal […]