In the film Belén, released earlier this year, a woman suffering from incapacitating stomach cramps...
HealthCare
In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy...
Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria...
I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. My research team has Tim Jackson visiting tomorrow, who will give a talk on postgrowth economics and also talk a bit about his new book, The Care Economy. The […]
Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise...
The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists,...
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan.” — a White House official. I’ve been a USAID contractor for most of the last 20 years. Not a federal employee; a contractor. USAID does most […]
If, like me, you follow Ones and Tooze, you will know that Adam recently had heart surgery. It was a big deal. Luckily, America has some of the best surgeons in the world, to whom only a small handful of Americans have access – but Adam Tooze is one of them. In the episode dedicated […]
(Hi all, wonderful to become part of this great blog! But now, directly on to some content!) Imagine that you have a toothache, and a visit at the dentist reveals that a major operation is needed. You phone your health insurance. You listen to the voice of the chatbot, press the buttons to go through […]