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Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
Read this op-ed on that topic by Marisa Bellack. Here's a short excerpt that gets at her theme: There was a 19th-century echo in the American Cancer Society’s announcement this past week of revised guidelines for breast cancer screening. Whereas anxiety was once a reason for aggressive medical intervention, it is now invoked to avoid intervention — an […]
That's the name of this article by Kevin Drum. Here's an excerpt: In 2010, just after Obamacare passed, CBO estimated that the uninsured rate would hit 8 percent by 2016. This was based on the original law, but in 2012 the Supreme Court made Medicaid expansion voluntary and most red states opted out. In July CBO updated its projections to […]
Yes, very good, with the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives, says reporter Joe Nocera in this NY Times op-ed.
On Tuesday, Scott posted a N.Y. Times op-ed describing a worsening U.S. student-loan debt problem. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is also concerned. Yesterday, it posted a piece entitled New signs of trouble for student loan borrowers, focusing not only on debt burden and default rates, but also on problems student-loan debtors have with loan servicers — […]
Read The Decline of Big Soda by Margot Sanger-Katz in the New York Times. Sanger-Katz explains: Over the last 20 years, sales of full-calorie soda in the United States have plummeted by more than 25 percent. Soda consumption, which rocketed from the 1960s through 1990s, is now experiencing a serious and sustained decline. * * […]
Read Karen Heller's article in the Washington Post.
That's the title of this article by Tom Hamburger. Hamburger says his article describes the newest chapter in Senator Warren's "crusade against the power of wealthy interests."
Recently, we told you about Coca-Cola's funding of scientists seeking to shift the blame for obesity away from bad diets (including regularly gulping down sugary drinks like Coke). If you were interested in that story, you'll be interested in this story. At this website, Coke urges consumers to "Share a Coke" with someone by allowing […]
The FDA recently issued this draft guidance to assist industry in drug development to combat rare diseases. 10% of people will get a rare disease. That sounds strange because a rare disease is, well, rare. It is defined (by the Orphan Drug Act of 1983) as a disorder or condition that affects fewer than 200,000 […]