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Tainted Drugs: When Medicine Makes Patients SickerThe FDA is supposed to inspect all factories, foreign and domestic, that produce drugs for the US market. But a review of
thousands of FDA documents reveals how drugs that are poorly manufactured or contaminated can reach consumers.
How Widespread Is Use of Transgender Hormones Bought Online?Hormones for gender transition can be bought easily and cheaply online and used without medical supervision. But reliable
estimates of the number of people doing this are sorely lacking.
Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2019
Democrats Fight Back Against Lawsuit Threatening Health LawAmong the first things Democrats did after officially taking control of the House was to express support for efforts to appeal
a Texas district court decision declaring the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
Kaiser Health News, January 07, 2019
Medicare Coverage Could Help Older Adults Maximize HearingA new law allows over-the-counter hearing aids, but if older consumers cannot afford hearing services, they may not use the
aids or will miss out on essential care, authors of a new report say.
Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2019
After Bitter Closure, Rural Texas Hospital ReopensThe 25-bed hospital in Crockett, Texas, abruptly closed its doors in 2017, but the community kept the faith and several doctors
reopened the facility this year.
Eric J. Topol, MDDirector, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Perspective
What's Driving Physician Burnout in 2018?At a session on burnout at the ESC meeting in Munich, Dr Walton-Shirley heard a first-hand account of a cardiologist who had
a breakdown. The panelists left her hopeful that things will improve.
