NPA in the News – 2015


Text Icon Publish Date: July 8, 2020

Text Icon Written by: Barbara Meier
Text Icon Medically reviewed by: Dr. Manan Trivedi and Dr. Marc Kimmel

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  • “Nguyen: Why Texans worry about open carry,” Houston Chronicle (12/31/2015)
  • “Critics continue pounding 21st Century Cures Act for threatening patient safety,” Medical Economics (12/30/2015)
  • “The last word: Will 21st Century Cures Act harm patient safety?” Medical Economics (12/25/2015)
  • “End CDC ban,” Milawkee Journal-Sentinel (12/19/2015)
  • “An Uninsured Immigrant Delays Needed Care,” Health Affairs (12/2015)
  • “Internal Emails Show FDA, Industry Jointly Framed ‘Cures’ Device Language,” Inside Health Policy (12/14/2015)
  • “What the Planned Parenthood Shooting Means for Medicine,” Huffington Post (12/4/2015)
  • “Physicians to Congress: Time to lift the 20-year-old ban on gun research,” Becker’s Hospital Review (12/3/2015)
  • “Congress pressured to drop gun control research ban,” The Hill (12/2/2015)
  • “Doc Groups Urge Congress to Drop Gun Research Ban,” MedPage Today (12/2/2015)
  • “The Gun Industry Has Systematically Demolished Regulators And Avoided The Fate Of Cigarettes,” Think Progress (12/1/2015)
  • “Why the media must play a bigger role in policing unsafe medical devices,” Health News Review (10/27/2015)
  • “How politicians are increasingly imposing their ideologies into the medical exam room,” Minn Post (10/26/2015)
  • “Dr. Andrew Kolodny on Combating Drug Abuse,” C-Span (10/25/2015)
  • “Doctors take to the streets to learn from patients,” Boston Globe (10/24/2015)
  • “New Report Details Growing Threat of Politicians ‘Playing Doctor’,” Ms. Magazine (10/23/2015)
  • “For National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Let’s Close the Boyfriend Loophole,” Huffington Post (10/23/2015)
  • “Catherine Rampell: Politicians should quit playing doctor,” Albany Herald (10/23/2015)
  • “Catherine Rampell commentary: Lawmakers spend a lot of time playing doctor,” Columbus Dispatch (10/23/2015)
  • “How fast to “cures” and at what cost? Politico forum tilts toward pharma-friendly messaging,” HealthNewsReview (10/22/2015)
  • “Would Washington’s FDA Fix Cure the Patients or the Drug Industry?,” ProPublica (10/20/2015)
  • “Politicians are invading our medical exam rooms,” Washington Post (10/19/2015)
  • “A Matter of Life or Death?” Health Care Hub (10/19/2015)
  • “State Laws Are Reaching Into The Exam Room To Interfere With Doctors And Their Patients,” ThinkProgress (10/17/2015)
  • “The Strange Laws That Dictate What Your Doctor Tells You,” The Atlantic (10/16/2015)
  • “Podcast: 10th anniversary of an unusual medical group,” HealthNewsReview (10/15/2015)
  • “Report: State Lawmakers ‘Playing Doctor’ Causing Medical, Ethical Problems for Physicians,” Route Fifty (10/14/2015)
  • “’21st Century Cures’ Isn’t a Cure for Everything,” Managed Care (9/2015)
  • “The 21st Century Cures Act: More Homework To Do,” by Drs. Susan Molchan, James Rickert, and John Powers, Health Affairs Blog (9/24/2015)
  • “FedUP Coalition Asks Senate: What About Opioids?,” MedPage Today (9/16/2015)
  • “New Kid on the Block Turns Ten! The Brief, Remarkable History of the National Physicians Alliance,” Permanente Journal (Summer 2015)
  • “Let Pennsylvania Protect its Citizens: The commonwealth should not have to recognize the weakest state gun laws in the nation,” by Dr. Mudit Gilotra, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (8/2/2015)
  • “Code Blue,” Houston Chronicle ( 6/9/2015)
  • “Gun violence restraining order will save lives: Guest commentary,” By Lydia Vaias, MD, NPA Founder, Los Angeles Daily News (5/19/2015)
  • “Nguyen: Care based on politics is not good medicine,” Houston Chronicle (4/29/2015)
  • “Health Care Cost Should Be Clear In Advance,” Hartford Courant (4/27/2015)
  • “My View: Expanded background checks a positive step for Oregonians,” Portland Tribune (4/22/2015)
  • “No vote in US Congress on proposal to create new pathway for approving antibiotics,” British Medical Center (3/31/2015)
  • “Guns with History & Public Health Impact,” interview with Dr. Bill Jordan, NPA President and Leah Gunn Barrett, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Executive Director, WMNF Radio, Tampa, FL (3/27/2015)
  • “Why Aren’t More Doctors Choosing Primary Care?” Connecticut WNPR (3/3/2015)
  • “Supreme Court Ruling on Health Law Would Have Disparate Impact,” Wall Street Journal (3/4/3015)
  • “Viewpoint: Doctors Punished for Protecting Children,” Emergency Medicine News (2/25/2015)
  • “LTE Re: Feb. 15 article, “Open carry, campus carry bills advance to Texas Senate,” The Statesman (2/17/2015)
  • “Anti-Vaxxers, Like Drunk Drivers, Are a Danger to Us All,” The Huffington Post (2/2/2015)
  • “Cities right to act in their public health role,” The Philadelphia Inquirer (1/28/2015)
  • “Potential biomarker that could predict’? – caveats about psychiatric brain imaging & blogging about it,” Health News Review (1/20/2015)