Gun violence disproportionately affects people of color, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found and more than half of Americans say they have dealt with gun violence at some point in their personal lives.
Category: healthcare
England’s Junior Doctors Begin Historic Four-Day Strike
Many doctors in England’s public health system have begun a four-day strike described as the “most disruptive” in the services’ history.
Tuberculosis-Infectious Woman Refuses To Get Treatment And Isolate, Putting Public At Risk
A women in Tacoma, Washington, who has tuberculosis (TB), has been refusing treatment for over a year and was spotted taking public transit and going to a casino.
Improve Self Before Pushing Others To Change, Deepak Chopra Says
The world-renowned wellness guru pleads for authenticity.
Walmart Launches Major Employee Mental Health Support Initiative
Walmart is expanding employee mental health support with a new “Workplace Mental Health course” that will teach Walmart leaders how to deal with someone struggling with behavioral health issues.
How Johnson & Johnson’s Attempt At A $9 Billion Baby Powder Settlement Impacts Black Women
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & JohnsonJNJ wants to do a one-time lump sum payment of at least $8.9 billion to thousands of talc-powder claimants. For Black women, who were selected by J&J as “the right place” to sell more baby powder to,” this is per…
NANOG (Part 1): Its Role In Aging And Cancer
Recent research suggests that NANOG protein may play a crucial role in aging and cancer development. Here, I provide a brief overview of the NANOG protein.
Don’t Let Progressives Assign A Dollar Value To Human Life
QALYs are a pseudoscientific and inhumane way to make decisions about medical treatment. In countries where regulators rely on these metrics to determine patient access to drugs, they almost exclusively lead to the denial of life-saving treatments.
Herbs To Cure Your Prostate Problems? I Don’t Think So
A new wave of scam websites from outside the US offers cures for everything, and doesn’t even bother to include caveats that US regulators require. Caveat emptor!
Healthcare Regulators’ Outdated Thinking Will Cost American Lives
How quickly can artificial intelligence and other technologies improve American healthcare? Unfortunately, only as fast as U.S. regulators will allow.
