Health: Growing Skepticism about Brain Scans
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Studies based on brain scans, or more technically speaking "task-fMRI measures," have been a large part of medical research in recent years. They...
Health: Sobering Pandemic Statistics
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The numbers associated with the Covid-19 in the United States, in particular the numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, have increased at unnerving...
Health: Three New Additions to Biden’s Covid Team
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President-elect Joseph Biden announced three new coordinators for his Covid-19 response team on Tuesday, December 29. This statement came amid continuing uncertainties about...
Health: Dialysis Will Not Disappear
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As long as thirty years ago, there was a strong feeling in some circles that dialysis, the common method of treating kidney failure,...
Health: President Obama’s Memoir and ‘Obamacare’
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Former US President Barack Obama, whose still-controversial 'Obamacare' system seems to have survived the Presidency of a successor who had pledged to dismantle...
Health: Two (Covid Vaccines) Are Not Enough
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Both Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccines are now approved, on an emergency basis, in the United States, and are entering veins. That will not be...
Health: Traditional Chinese Medicine Vindicated
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A new study out of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China) supports a very traditional remedy. A medicinal herb used...
Health: EPA Rule Changes on Clean Water Come Under Fire
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The US Environmental Protection Agency recently changed regulations authorized by the Clean Water Act. It has removed certain waters from federal pollution protection....
Health: And Now There Are Two (Vaccines)
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On December 18, the US Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. This means that there are now...
Health: Insurance and US Antitrust Law
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Health insurance has for a long time, been exempt from the operation of the US antitrust laws. This is often defended as necessary...
