Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South
Feminists failed to press for abortion laws when they had political winds at their backs. Women in Flyover are already paying for this lapse.
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Pfizer Court Fight Could Legalize Medicare Copays and Unleash ‘Gold Rush’ in Sales
Pfizer wants to legalize kickbacks.
Read more...Is the UK Back in Lockdown?
Another theory about the apparent decline in UK Covid cases right after Freedom Day.
Read more...Fed Up With Democrats, Thousands March to Demand Medicare for All
More voters recognize that the Democrats will do squat about expanded health coverage like Medicare for All unless they feel some heat
Read more...Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers
Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench
Read more...CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
Read more...Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
Read more...Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Read more...Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices
Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.
Read more...The Icepick Surgeon: Tales of Scientists Gone Rogue (or Worse)
Author Sam Kean follows the long trail of amoral scientists, and their justifications.
Read more...Financial Times: “Things Could Fall Apart for Biden”
Even Biden loyalists are getting nervous.
Read more...A Round-Up of Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Research
Nasal sprays for vaccination, treatment, and prophylaxis (the last with two over-the-counter products not delivering drugs).
Read more...The Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord
More worries about Delta.
Read more...DoJ Bankruptcy Trustee Lambastes Provisions to Protect Sacklers in Purdue Bankruptcy Exit Plan as “Illegal”
Feds weigh in on Purdue bankruptcy plan, raising possibility that Sacklers won’t get off more or less scot-free for their role in the opioids crisis.
Read more...What’s in Wildfire Smoke? A Toxicologist Explains the Health Risks
An environmental toxicologist outlines steps to take to mitigate the effects of wildfire smoke.
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