How many of us heard some variation of this from their mom: “If your friends jumped off a cliff (or bridge), would you do it too?” If RFK Jr told you to treat measles with vitamin A, would you do it too? “A team from Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts analyzed Google search trends data […]
I somehow missed this, but a couple months ago the Trump Administration abandoned its effort to cut indirect cost reimbursements for federal grants to colleges and universities to 15%. Just before I retired, the indirect cost rate at Saint Louis University was 51.5%, so this cut would have been devastating to research at SLU. When […]
“Trump’s New Medicaid Rule ‘Designed to Ensure People Lose Healthcare,’ Critics Warn” Common Dreams Jake Johnson The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a rule that is expected to push millions of low-income people off Medicaid by imposing complex bureaucratic barriers in the form of work reporting requirements, which have proven disastrous at the state level. The rule, released by the Centers for Medicare and […]
The referendum on healthcare is what the election of a new senator representing Texas is going to amount to this go-around. It will be a referendum on healthcare between the Dem candidate James Talarico and the Repub candidate Ken Paxton. Texas has one of the weakest healthcare policy in the United States and the highest […]
Rewrite . . . I am a veteran just like many others in the United States. I suspect there are many more like me who served their country by either enlisting or being drafted. I was a part of the former as there was no way I would avoid the draft in 68 other than […]
Matching faces of President Trump. I suspect they are using old pictures of Trump per his suggestions. There is a noticeable difference. Both are from today’s articles. One face is slimmer that the other. A swimsuit picture showed him kind of buff which he is not. To the Left: Furious Trump orders investigation into California […]
From the archives: In praise of slow bikes – by Lloyd Alter Carbon UpFront Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food movement, has died. He inspired many other slow movements over the years. I wrote about many of them and believe I was the first to call for a slow-car movement, somewhat in jest. But I […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ending contracts for mRNA vaccine development, citing concerns that the technology may pose “more risks than benefits.” According to Kennedy Jr., HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) reviewed 22 mRNA vaccine projects — most focused on […]
First the disclaimers: I’m a PhD scientist with a well-trained crap detector. And I was a medical school (allopathic medicine) professor for 37 years. While I’ve never practiced medicine, I have a pretty deep understanding of evidence-based medicine. “At a time when people are increasingly concerned about drug side effects, some consider acupuncture an attractive […]
Curing U.S. Health Care, Part II Paul Krugman On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — usually referred to either as the Affordable Care Act or as Obamacare — into law. Joe Biden, then the vice president, could be overheard whispering “This is a big fucking deal.” […]