Health
Overselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s Role
By Steve Silberman
Aug. 22, 2016
ADHD NATION
Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
By Alan Schwarz
Illustrated. 338 pp. Scribner. $28.
In the late...
The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and the global threat of infectious diseases
28 January 2020
In a matter of weeks, the outbreak of coronavirus centered in Wuhan, China has shut down a major global metropolis of 11...
Medical Error: The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US
Medical error is not included on death certificates or in rankings of cause of death. Martin Makary and Michael Daniel assess its contribution to...
Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the...
By Matt Trinder
November 29, 2019
CUBA is the most sustainably developed country in the world, according to a new report launched today.
The socialist island outperforms...
Johnson revises EU bill to limit parliament’s role in Brexit talks
Johnson revises EU bill to limit parliament's role in Brexit talks
19 Dec 2019
Protections for workers and child refugees also cut out of withdrawal...
Thousands of children in New Jersey found to have elevated blood...
By Erik Schreiber
10 December 2019
About 4,500 children in New Jersey had an elevated level of lead in their blood during fiscal 2018, according...
Global Poison Spring
by Evaggelos Vallianatos
Dec. 6, 2019
The power of the chemical industry in the United States all but wiped out the US EPA. The politicized department...
Riot police fires tear gas at hospital doctors protesting privatization of...
Dec.11, 2019
Greek riot police fired tear gas at hospital doctors in downtown Athens on Wednesday. During the clashes between protesters and police, an elderly...
PM refuses to look at picture of boy forced to sleep...
By Peter Walker
Dec. 9, 2019
Boris Johnson has been accused of not caring after he repeatedly refused during a TV interview to look at a...