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Several states are allowing retired health care professionals to assist with COVID-19 response by waiving certain licensing regulations.
Read More »Help Wanted: Retired Doctors And Nurses In Several States Can Scrub In To Fight COVID-19
Informed Consent: What Every Pennsylvania Physician Needs to Know
Informed consent is an important part of the patient-physician relationship and has implications for other theories of medical malpractice. The principle of “informed consent” has ...
Read More »New Pennsylvania Law Allows Schools to Administer Epinephrine for Allergic Kids
(Doylestown, PA) – The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) today applauded Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett for signing legislation that allows Pennsylvania schools to ...
Read More »Pennsylvania Doctors Are Ready For Medical Marijuana
By Lucy J. Cairns, MD Several factors have recently converged to make passage of a medical marijuana law in Pennsylvania a distinct possibility. First, public ...
Read More »Doctors’ group says ‘No’ to medical marijuana in Pennsylvania
By Brad Broker Last November, two Pennsylvania state senators crossed the aisle to introduce a bill to legalize marijuana for medicinal use. Senators Mike Folmer ...
Read More »This cancer drug is being mixed with heroin and causing overdose deaths
By Alan Lyndon Someone is mixing together a cocktail of heroin and the cancer painkiller fentanyl, selling it on the street under the name “Theraflu,” ...
Read More »Pennsylvania Doctors Allowed to Say “I’m Sorry”
By Brad Broker “I’m sorry.” Those are very powerful words, particularly when used by a doctor. They can provide the slightest bit of comfort to ...
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