Opinion | Extend Landmark PEPFAR Program Now
Daschle and Frist are former Senate majority leaders. In 2003, the two of us led opposing political parties in the U.S. Senate. Despite our differences, we joined together to support President George W. Bush in authorizing the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at a time when the global AIDS crisis was spiraling […]
ACOG PAC Donated Over $1M to Anti-Abortion Legislators
Anti-abortion politicians have received more than $1 million in funding from the political action committee (PAC) of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), researchers found. The premier professional organization for ob/gyns in the U.S with more than 60,000 members, ACOG runs Ob-GynPAC, which gave over $3.3 million to federal legislators according to publicly […]
Doctors Not Immune to Political Biases When it Comes to COVID
Even physicians can be influenced by their political biases when making decisions about COVID-19 treatments, researchers found. In a survey with responses from some 400 critical care doctors, those who identified as politically conservative were five times as likely as their liberal and moderate peers to say they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with […]
Is Politics Creating a ‘Mortality Gap’ for Americans?
Latest MedicineNet News WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) The sharp political divide in the United States may also be creating a widening gap in death rates between those on opposing sides, new research suggests. For the study, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston analyzed death rates and federal and state election […]
Opinion | A BA.2 Surge Could Wreak Unequal Havoc
Weeks after political leaders and media elites put the U.S. on a course to “return to normalcy,” the country finds itself again contending with an uptick in cases fueled by the highly transmissible BA.2 Omicron subvariant and the ending of public health measures. Some regions and cities, like Washington, D.C. and New York, are seeing […]