The CDC and FDA were once the gold standard of public health. Smallpox eradicated. Polio defeated. Frances Kelsey standing up to Big Pharma and sparing America the Thalidomide tragedy.
Today, those same agencies are politicized, distrusted, and weaponized. The media’s selective outrage helped get us here.
Commercial airlines love to boast about how safe cabin air is, and how powerful HEPA filters scrub out bacteria and viruses. What they prefer you don’t know: HEPA filters don’t stop engine fumes or chemical vapors—and those toxic substances seep into cabin air far more often than the public realizes.
How common are these so-called “fume events”? No one knows. The FAA reportedly blew off a Congressional mandate to track them.
The FDA dismissed her as a quack. Houston Methodist hospital gleefully vilified her. The corporate media tried to cancel her. Despite costly litigation, public abuse, and the toll on her family, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden remains unbowed.
Her defiant response? “I just feel free — like what else can they do to me.”
It’s National Pet Week—a time to celebrate the pets who enrich our lives and to promote responsible pet care. But rising costs, driven by private equity ownership, are making pet ownership increasingly unaffordable for many Americans. This has contributed to a disturbing trend known as “economic euthanasia”—where pets are put down not for health reasons, but because their owners can’t afford treatment.
Our furry companions, whom many of us consider family, deserve far better.
A cautionary tale about the dangers and causes of not opening snail mail.
In the heyday of the Wall Street Journal when the publication was the gold standard of American journalism, the newspaper’s page one stories were a delight to read. They often began with a telling anecdote that alerted readers about the subject they were about to read, and some of the…
If Donald Trump focused his attention on his groundbreaking achievement to reduce hospital costs rather than hurling childish insults, he’d put the Biden/Harris administration to shame. Unfortunately for Trump, he seems unaware of his administration’s major accomplishment.
My harrowing tale about buying a costly mattress that finishes with a very happy ending and lets me enjoy some of the best sleep I’ve had in years.
Reading Bloomberg’s frightening analysis of CVS-branded medicines, I’m opting to pay more for name brand OTC drugs. My guess is that if you become aware of Bloomberg’s findings, so will you.
The FDA thought it was very clever three years ago maligning a drug called ivermectin as veterinary medicine. Here’s the story how a Houston ENT doc made the FDA look like a horse’s derriere.