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Jul 15, 2025
The Trump administration’s recent decision to cancel $766 million in funding to vaccine company Moderna for the development of a bird flu vaccine represents an ominous retreat...
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Jul 9, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) may need new oversight in some areas, but additional regulation of medical devices now would be superfluous and inhibit innovation.
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Jul 3, 2025
The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government has just withdrawn funding for the development of a bird...
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Jun 24, 2025
Tailoring medicines to an individual’s genetic profile is now possible. One critical aspect is genetic testing that reduces side effects, particularly for patients on psychiatric...
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Jun 16, 2025
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) two weeks ago...
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Jun 9, 2025
Although it appears not to cause more severe illness, preliminary data demonstrate that the variant exhibits significant resistance to immunity from prior infection or vaccination....
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Jun 6, 2025
Although it appears not to cause more severe illness, preliminary data demonstrate that the variant exhibits significant resistance to immunity from prior infection or vaccination....
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Jun 5, 2025
Although it appears not to cause more severe illness, preliminary data demonstrate that the variant exhibits significant resistance to immunity from prior infection or vaccination....
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May 24, 2025
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had heard of, but many in the medical world fear. The same...
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May 21, 2025
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had heard of, but many in the medical world fear. The same...
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May 20, 2025
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had heard of, but many in the medical world fear. The same...
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May 19, 2025
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had heard of, but many in the medical world fear. The same...
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Apr 30, 2025
A biotech startup announced in February that the FDA had certified its daily pill as having a “reasonable expectation of effectiveness” in extending the lifespan of senior dogs....
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Apr 22, 2025
China’s dominance of the market for "active pharmaceutical ingredients" — critical components of drugs — has given it powerful economic leverage and introduced significant risk...
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Apr 21, 2025
Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ensuring that many preventable infectious diseases are largely...
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Apr 18, 2025
Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ensuring that many preventable infectious diseases are largely...
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Apr 15, 2025
The availability of suzetrigine may represent a critical step in addressing the nation’s pain management crisis. While questions remain about its cost, adoption, and long-term...
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Apr 1, 2025
Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ensuring that many preventable infectious diseases are largely...
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Mar 21, 2025
What would the Food and Drug Administration look like under Martin “Marty” Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, President Trump’s soon-to-be confirmed...
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Mar 20, 2025
What would the Food and Drug Administration look like under Martin “Marty” Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, President Trump’s soon-to-be confirmed...
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Mar 6, 2025
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have evolved from relatively obscure cost-saving entities into powerful industry players with significant influence over drug pricing and access....
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Feb 25, 2025
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have evolved from relatively obscure cost-saving entities into powerful industry players with significant influence over drug pricing and access....
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Feb 24, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications will range from simple triage and the evaluation of psychotherapy sessions to extraordinary science fiction-like diagnosis.
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Feb 19, 2025
AI applications will range from simple triage and the evaluation of psychotherapy sessions to extraordinary science fiction-like diagnosis.
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Feb 11, 2025
The FDA has made some modest efforts, but it needs an internal organization that understands and would be an aggressive advocate for the development of rare-disease drugs.
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Feb 10, 2025
The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a...
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Feb 6, 2025
America’s birth rate is plummeting, and with it, the economic foundations of programs like Social Security. Lars and I discuss the demographic time bomb ticking beneath our feet.
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Jan 29, 2025
There were unforgiveable shortcomings in management, which included critical information not reaching senior officials as well as a lack of good old-fashioned common sense.
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Jan 16, 2025
Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting...
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Jan 15, 2025
Dr. H. Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science since 2019, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during [a] meeting of the...
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Jan 14, 2025
A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists.
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Jan 10, 2025
American science and medicine are becoming increasingly infiltrated by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), to their detriment.
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Jan 10, 2025
After at least documented 66 cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount — the first death was just reported. A 65-year old man with additional...
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Jan 1, 2025
Evidence suggests that at recommended levels, fluoridation is cost-effective and promotes public health. But, like any healthcare intervention, it must be scrutinized and adjusted as...
Jul 15, 2025The Trump administration’s recent decision to cancel $766 million in funding to vaccine company Moderna for the development of a bird flu vaccine represents an ominous retreat...
Jul 9, 2025Artificial intelligence (AI) may need new oversight in some areas, but additional regulation of medical devices now would be superfluous and inhibit innovation.
Jun 24, 2025Tailoring medicines to an individual’s genetic profile is now possible. One critical aspect is genetic testing that reduces side effects, particularly for patients on psychiatric...
Jun 16, 2025When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) two weeks ago...
Jun 9, 2025Although it appears not to cause more severe illness, preliminary data demonstrate that the variant exhibits significant resistance to immunity from prior infection or vaccination....
May 24, 2025When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had heard of, but many in the medical world fear. The same...
Apr 30, 2025A biotech startup announced in February that the FDA had certified its daily pill as having a “reasonable expectation of effectiveness” in extending the lifespan of senior dogs....
Apr 22, 2025China’s dominance of the market for "active pharmaceutical ingredients" — critical components of drugs — has given it powerful economic leverage and introduced significant risk...
Apr 21, 2025Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ensuring that many preventable infectious diseases are largely...
Apr 15, 2025The availability of suzetrigine may represent a critical step in addressing the nation’s pain management crisis. While questions remain about its cost, adoption, and long-term...
Mar 21, 2025What would the Food and Drug Administration look like under Martin “Marty” Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, President Trump’s soon-to-be confirmed...
Mar 6, 2025Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have evolved from relatively obscure cost-saving entities into powerful industry players with significant influence over drug pricing and access....
Feb 24, 2025Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications will range from simple triage and the evaluation of psychotherapy sessions to extraordinary science fiction-like diagnosis.
Feb 10, 2025The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a...
Feb 6, 2025America’s birth rate is plummeting, and with it, the economic foundations of programs like Social Security. Lars and I discuss the demographic time bomb ticking beneath our feet.
Jan 16, 2025Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting...
Jan 15, 2025Dr. H. Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science since 2019, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during [a] meeting of the...
Jan 14, 2025A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists.
Jan 10, 2025American science and medicine are becoming increasingly infiltrated by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), to their detriment.
Jan 10, 2025After at least documented 66 cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount — the first death was just reported. A 65-year old man with additional...
Jan 1, 2025Evidence suggests that at recommended levels, fluoridation is cost-effective and promotes public health. But, like any healthcare intervention, it must be scrutinized and adjusted as...