CATEGORY: FDA – Regulatory
Your Insurance Company Plays Doctor – Without a License
I know in the state of Missouri, the insurers have no license to practice medicine, but they do anyway and we as a community let them. Yesterday I spent the day writing letters to insurance companies to try to get[...]
Sexual Harassment and Discrimination
We are looking today at data from Medical Schools reporting women students have experienced the same kinds of abuse and harassment being reported in most social systems. In today’s Healthcast we are looking at the issue of power within[...]
Anabolic Is Not A Dirty Word
Anabolic means growth, and the human body lives in a steady state of growth and destruction. We call this homeostasis or balance. This balance is the result of a yin and yang procedure we call anabolic/catabolic processes. Anabolic is often[...]
How Measurement Fails Us
You can have two of the three: Low cost, Efficiency, or Quality, but not ALL three! This is a truism from the world of business management, one that applies to medicine as well as the business world—you can’t get it[...]
Bio-Identical Hormone Risks
Why do some physicians cling so intensely to what they learned in school, when new research and new ideas so strongly encourage them to develop and practice new treatments? It is difficult to understand why so many physicians cling so[...]
Growth Hormone Deficiency: The Physical Signs
This blog begins a series of health-casts about the physical signs of the most important hormone deficiencies. We hope to help you develop your observational skills so you will notice the important physical characteristics of each hormone deficiency. Click to[...]
The Cost of Healthcare
Healthcare cost, who decides: Doctors? Insurers? Regulators? People? Please email your thoughts to [email protected]. As a general rule, discussions about the cost of health care are focused on particular treatments that you or a loved one might need or be[...]
New Female Sexual Dysfunction Drug – Addyi
Medication does exist to help women with loss of libido and sexual desire. In late 2015 there finally was a sexual dysfunction drug that was approved by the FDA for SOME women…..and can only be prescribed by doctors who have[...]
Why Doctors Use Off-label Drugs
Off-label drugs allow physicians to get around unreasonable FDA restrictions. Criticism of the FDA is an impassioned issue because they play a direct role in our health, and hold the responsibility of deciding whether a medication is approved for certain[...]
Fight FDA Restrictions on Hormone Pellets
Dr. Kathy Maupin discusses recent legislation proposed to the FDA that would limit the availability of hormone pellets that are used in her practice, as well as what you can do to help fight these decisions. Once again, the FDA[...]