…could be considered of no clinical consequence. Doctors who want to use colchicine to prevent heart disease will be able to legally write off label prescriptions for the lower cost…

…own healthcare decisions. … So, if that’s where they want to label me, I’m more than happy to take the label.” AB: This comment was made about J.D Vance and…

…revisit the benefits and risks of taking hormones to treat severe menopause symptoms. The agency currently warns they may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and breast…

…MSNBC, and others. And more, most of it indicative of a desire to have state-controlled media instead of a free press. “FCC Broadcast Accountability” came under the label of “Reform.”…

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

…negative impact on the economy. Given the severe weakness in the economy this shock most likely would tilt the economy into a recession. This is rather straight forward analysis, but…

Robert Waldmann Matthew Yglesias has a post on poverty which is, shall we say, very different from my post on severe poverty below. In particular he wrote We then had…

…repercussions of the housing downturn were severe, other types of tax cuts might be an appropriate response. Needless to say, Democrats could and should advocate tax cuts that would look…

…Tea Party acolytes in Congress are committing an ethical violation even more severe than money-corruption.  They are sacrificing the economic stability of the country and the individual lives of hundreds…

…a small group of antisocial recidivistic offenders, but no genes have been shown to contribute to recidivistic violent offending or severe violent behavior, such as homicide. Our results, from two…