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Climate change already affects almost everyone on earth

Oct 12, 2021 – The effects of climate change spanning the globe and have reached an overwhelming majority of the people on earth in the form of coastal floods, forest fires, and other climate-related events, new evidence suggests. Using a special computer program to analyze the vast amount of data on climate change, researchers report […]

America’s Drug-Approval System Is Unsustainable

The byzantine world of pharmaceutical regulation has recently broken into the public consciousness, causing a bit of a panic. Aducanumab—the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in nearly two decades—was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on June 7 despite scant evidence of benefit, and against the nearly unanimous advice of the agency’s expert advisers. Op-eds […]