It is only one study.  But it was carefully done, used interesting methods, and it tried to explore issues that have rarely been studied.  Researchers from the University of Maryland studied students who had new symptoms of influenza to see if infectious flu virus spread during coughs, sneezing, or regular breathing.  They looked at nasal…

Sen. Charles Grassley has been pursuing various forms of medical malfeasance for years. On November 17 he honed in on the practice of ‘ghostwriting,’ in which medical ‘opinion leaders’ are sought after as authors of medical journal articles supporting a new drug, vaccine or medical device. Only problem is, the articles they ‘author’ were actually…

The story comes from the Peoples Daily/Xinhua press release, and there does not appear to be independent reporting. The BBC has reported for two days on cases of pneumonic plague in a remote area of western China, said to be inhabited primarily by Tibetans. Although plague can be transmitted to humans via insect bites (due…

Nicholas Wade interviewed me once, in 1998, when he wrote for the NY Times.  He then moved to Science magazine with 2 other science reporters from the Times. He is perhaps retired now, since his new opus is posted on Medium and in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. What this long report has, almost…

Deep Reform: RFK, Jr. to host Health Policy Roundtable — Online, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 7:00 pm ET What is needed to turn around our country’s health policies so they actually improve our health and life expectancy? How do we get there? What is needed to enshrine informed consent and bodily autonomy in the way…