A hospital in Virginia is facing a large fine for “needlessly interposing requirements that stand in the way of the patient’s desired physician administering investigational drugs as part of the Health Care Decisions Act and the federal and state Right to Try Acts.” Court documents released on Dec. 13, show Fauquier Hospital in Virginia was […]
COVID Treatments
Top Critical Care Doctor Takes on Hospital Over Ban of Life-Saving Medicines Used to Treat COVID
A top critical care physician who filed a lawsuit against Sentara Norfolk General Hospital over its ban on administering life-saving drugs to treat COVID patients has had his hospital privileges suspended. Dr. Paul Marik, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and director of the ICU at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, learned about […]
Nebraska Attorney General Files Legal Opinion with Dept. of Justice in Support of Off-Label Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine for the Prevention and Treatment of COVID
Few subjects have been more controversial than ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine — two long-established, inexpensive medications widely and successfully used in many parts of the world for the prevention and treatment of COVID. Yet, health care providers across the U.S. are being threatened with discipline for using these off-label medicines for their COVID patients. On Oct. […]