Part the First: What the Longevity Bros Miss: The Office of Science and Society (OSS) at McGill University is one of the best newsletters of its kind and has provided much to think about today’s Coffee Break. In this first part, it is not too difficult to understand the desire to live long and prosper. […]
Read more...Pete Hegseth is almost predictably wrong. His beliefs about testosterone supplementation are par for the course.
Read more...Part the First: Profit in Medicine. In a report that will tug at the heartstrings of everyone, STAT tells us that HCA warns of lower profits in its future as more patients go uninsured because ObamaCare subsidies have gone by the wayside: The country’s biggest hospital chain lowered its 2026 profit outlook on Tuesday after […]
Read more...Some news you can use: on a dodgy knee procedure that while deservedly falling in popularity, is still being practiced.
Read more...Cancer has been recognized as an environmental disease since the first description of chimney sweep’s cancer by Percivall Pott in 1775. The primary social determinant of this disease is described well in this article Lancet Oncology (Abstract then unfortunately a paywall), even if the “social determinants of health” are anathema during our MAHA Moment. More […]
Read more...A grass-roots effort to extinguish medical debt shows how destructive and ought-to-be-criminal US debt collection is.
Read more...Part the First: More Cognitive Surrender Where It Just Won’t Do. Last week we considered an essay on AI that used the term “cognitive surrender.” That sums up the current state of that art and the term should gain a following. Last week Nature published Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – […]
Read more...Let’s try to understand how Barry raised a billion for his Borg ship. Don’t forget your Altoids.
Read more...Medical and court records show ICE denied medical care to cancer patients, pregnant women and those with life-threatening chronic conditions.
Read more...Glen Campbell, who was a member of The Wrecking Crew, once remarked that he had worked hard for ten years to become an overnight success in 1967, with thanks to John Hartford. Without stretching too much, this same trajectory, extended by more than ten years, has been illustrated recently in biomedical research by the case […]
Read more...Quelle surprise! Junk food often contains a lot of less-than-healthy additives.
Read more...Older men show less cognitive decline if they keep working. Does this finding apply only to paid jobs or would charity roles be salutary too?
Read more...MAHA touts are in denial that their support for meat-eating is tantamount to support for factory farming.
Read more...A reminder on the Declaration’s 250th anniversary of the lack of freedom due to poverty and wealth inequality.
Read more...Part the First: Pope Leo XIV and the Larger World. Of the academic historians currently writing for both their colleagues and students and the general reader, Greg Grandin is among the finest. In The Education of Pope Leo XIV he places the former Father Bob Prevost and current Pope Leo XIV in context of our […]
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