News : Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Tucson, Ariz. In a letter to Colorado public health officials, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) opposes a rule requiring workers in health care facilities to have an annual influenza vaccination or lose their jobs. Workers who had a rare religious or medical exemption would be required to wear a mask in patient care areas from November through March.

The religious exemption is too narrowly...

Tucson, Ariz. - Claims that American medicine is unsafe, inferior, and too costly are simply false, though constantly cited by proponents of universal, government-funded care, write physicians in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

There are many reasons why a former sultan of Brunei and two Canadian premiers, among many others, came to the U.S. for medical treatment, writes...

Tucson, Ariz. A standard hazard function model shows that Fukushima recovery workers probably will suffer no life-threatening radiation damage, writes Bobby R. Scott, Ph.D., of the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.

In the same article in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, www.jpands.org/vol16no3/scott.pdf Scott...