Merrill Goozner
Editor Emeritus at Modern Healthcare
Editor and Publisher at GoozNews
Freelance writer & Editor-Publisher of GoozNews
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1 week ago |
nationalmemo.com | Merrill Goozner
The banned additives included brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate and propylparaben, which having been linked to cancer or toxic effects on the heart, reproductive, and endocrine systems. Each has been banned in the European Union. The Illinois law also bans use of Red Dye #3, whose elimination starting in 2027 the Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration finally ruled last December. The FDA concluded more than three decades ago the dye was carcinogenic.
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1 week ago |
gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Indiana today where GOP Gov. Steve Braun, a former Senator and business owner, unveiled nine executive orders that underscored all the contradictions in the Make America Healthy Again movement.
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1 week ago |
gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner
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1 week ago |
gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner
The law governing the regulation of medical devices allows companies to claim their new product is “substantially equivalent” to something already approved by the FDA and needn’t undergo clinical trials in humans. All too often, this new device contains a significant change that winds up killing patients.
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2 weeks ago |
gooznews.substack.com | Merrill Goozner
Health insurer stocks are soaring today after the Trump administration doubled their Medicare Advantage plans’ payment boost for next year. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ final rule gave the plans a 5% bump compared to the 2.2% increase proposed by the Biden administration in late November. It’s too soon to say whether the decision reveals the hidden hand of CMS administrator Mehmet Oz, who owned insurance stocks and touted MA plans for years on his television show.
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