With Memorial Day weekend approaching, blood centers across the country will likely experience a dip in donations, as they do every year during summer months and around holidays. As part of an effort to increase blood donations both in the United States and in countries where blood shortages are much more severe and often deadly, [...] Continue Reading 
Dr. Anthony Levatino performed roughly 1,200 abortions in his career as an OBGYN—some after the 20-week mark—before having a change of heart about the procedure when his daughter died in a car accident. On Thursday he spoke before a Congressional committee about his experiences performing abortions and urged lawmakers to support a bill that would [...] Continue Reading 
“ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” These were the words of Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),” in his last interview before his death. Leon Eisenberg made a luxurious living off of his “fictitious disease,” thanks to pharmaceutical sales. Coincidentally, he received the “Ruane Prize for Child [...] Continue Reading 
Just as the Obama administration continues to reel from three major scandals, Republicans are zeroing in on yet one more — this one involving Obamacare as it nears implementation. GOP legislators are targeting Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the solicitations she made to some of the nation’s top insurance companies and other groups for [...] Continue Reading 
A White House-proposed overhaul of the United States’ $1.4 billion food aid program is not going to happen, at least not in as ambitious a form as the administration requested in its fiscal 2014 budget. Lawmakers and officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development are now in negotiations on a smaller package of changes [...] Continue Reading 
So, let’s talk about how Obamacare is already adversely affecting patients with existing health insurance coverage, and the physicians who are trying to fix those patients. This past week I had two scheduled visits with two different Orthopedic Surgeons, one for my left shoulder, and the other for right knee. In case anyone is wondering, [...] Continue Reading 
First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative is praising textbook publishers for “swapping out cupcakes for apples in math problems,” in a campaign to incorporate health information into the learning resources for kids. “Today at the White House, we celebrated a group of educational publishers on their development of voluntary guidance to incorporate health information [...] Continue Reading 
According to liberals, it was “un-American” to protest the adoption of Obamacare. Now apparently it’s unpatriotic to not go out of one’s way to help make it a wild success. The New York Times recently claimed that GOP Congressmen and Governors are spitefully refusing to fund or participate in Obamacare implementation solely to make the [...] Continue Reading 
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argued that businesses — not just [...] Continue Reading 
Renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson cautioned on Thursday that putting the embattled IRS in charge of overseeing Obamacare was “probably not going to be good” and said that it was not too late to stop the Affordable Care Act. “Unfortunately, we don’t seem to be learning from our mistakes,” Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at [...] Continue Reading