Survivor Care; Diabetes and Cancer; Lung Cancer Ignorance

The rapidly growing population of cancer survivors deserves coordinated, comprehensive, and personalized care, according to an American Cancer Society report that delineates priorities for patient care, research, education, and health policy.

Calif.'s 'Death Certificate Project' Nabs 11 More Physicians

Another 11 physicians now face new "Death Certificate Project" accusations from the Medical Board of California, filed over the last month, because a patient for whom they had prescribed narcotics fatally overdosed years ago.

That brings the total to 23 physicians who face new disciplinary actions.

Canadian Doctors Get Ready for Child Euthanasia

In the United States’ most culturally aligned nation, a race toward the once-unthinkable accelerates.

It never made any sense. The assurance that active euthanasia would always be limited to terminally ill, competent adults just never made any sense. Here’s the problem: Once a society widely supports eliminating suffering by eliminating the sufferer and redefines as a “medical treatment” the act whereby doctors kill seriously ill patients, there is no logical argument for limiting euthanasia to adults with legal decision-making capacity. After all, children suffer too, so how can they be logically refused “medical aid in dying” — or MAID, the current euphemism for euthanasia and assisted suicide — only because of their age?

Sarah Palin Nailed It: Death Panels Doom Seniors

A waiting list is a death list 

| Headline Health – As Sarah Palin and others have noted, socialized medicine cannot function without bureaucratic gatekeepers whose function is to delay or deny treatment to patients who have been deemed by authorities – or by a formula they have established – to be not worth saving.

'Oops... It Wasn't Cancer After All,' Admits The National Cancer Institute/JAMA

After decades of wrongful cancer diagnoses and treatments, and millions harmed, the National Cancer Institute and high gravitas journals like JAMA finally admit they were wrong all along. 

Eldercare Reform Question Your Candidates Before You Vote

The tragedies happening in our assisted living facilities and nursing homes are at an historical high and needs to stop. We all should be alarmed that there were over 24,000 complaints on abuse, neglect and exploitation filed with the state in 2017 and they are still getting well over 400 complaints a week.

A woman went to a hospital for back surgery — and left without one of her kidneys

A woman went to a hospital for back surgery — and left without one of her kidneys

Maureen Pacheco had expected to have a spinal procedure.

It was April 2016, and she was told a surgeon would fuse together a couple of vertebrae in her lower back to help relieve pain believed to be from an injury she sustained in a car accident the previous year. However, when she woke up from surgery at Wellington Regional Medical Center in Wellington, Fla., she learned that the surgeon had done something else, according to court records.