Accelerated approval allows for approval if a drug fills an unmet need for a serious condition based on a surrogate endpoint instead of clinical benefit. The approval can be revoked later if the clinical

His speakership still is likely dead for the time being, but we may see fewer votes against him today. In any case if he does pull off the impossible here he's going to be essentially a Speaker in name

I've been reading this new book called "In Search of Monsters.." and it discusses at length, the militarization of American society since WW2. One way I think that has become increasingly obvious

This economy is seemingly refusing to follow the punditry calling for a recession. GDPNow's nowcast expects Q4 GDP to come in at 3.9%. Just a little over 3 weeks until the actual GDP release. There's some

The new Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 is now 40.5% of new cases in the US. It was half that last week. In the northeast it is as much as 75% of new cases. Not much is known about this sub-variant. It is

Health is among the most common new years resolutions people will make in 2023. And that means you are likely to see a fresh influx of people begin their working out journeys. To that end, encourage them

I shared data on this for the US before, but here's some UK data as well. You can see it via ideological self-identification as well. There's of course plenty of time for things to change, but what we've

My friend and I were talking about the pros and cons of capitalism and we realized that we mean totally different things by "capitalism." So we decided to coin two new words to replace the ambiguous

China isn't doing a lot of genomic surveillance, but of the submissions to GISAID so far no new variants have emerged from China's current outbreak. Just circulating Omicron sub-variants that have been

This isn't how any of this works. Christine Grady is the head of bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center. It is a completely separate unit from the NIAID, where Fauci is the director. The NIAID has its own

Shapiro is not known for being a movie critic as opposed to political commentary, but his complaints about Glass Onion are kinda right.. Glass Onion was boring, in part because Johnson as per usual, didn't

Free speech would be great if it weren't for people. We seem to refuse to believe that our culture is shifting to the dark side -- mostly because we refuse to accept others' beliefs that don't match our

While I've seen many customer demands for Direct TV to drop Fox News and the Fox Business Channel, I would have expected changes to happen with some sort of notice. Flat out dumping their channels while

It's estimated that 37 million people in China are getting COVID per day right now, with an estimated 250 million cases over the course of this month. It's also estimated there will be 1-2 million deaths

Son: "Dad, I think I'm old enough now to know the truth. Is there really a Santa Claus?” Dad: "Ok, I agree that you’re old enough. But before I tell you, I have a question for you. You see, the

From 78.8 years in 2019, to 76.4 years in 2021, rolling back 25 years in progress. Drug overdoses plays some role, but it's mostly COVID, partially offset by reduced flu deaths from masking and distancing.

Franco left us this week at age 72... which is too young to die. Franco was a great ambassador of football, and was generally regarded as one of the really nice guys among its elders. I do have to say,

Our politics is ill-suited to public health investment. A 2017 review found that health protection campaigns like vaccination had a median return on investment of $34 for every $1 spent. A lead paint control

Minnesota peeps, the state has just started a new telehealth pilot program for coronavirus treatment. If you test positive for COVID, either from at-home test or a lab test, you can connect to a licensed

I got my ticket to see Avatar at 1:30pm today. I was in a weird spot in selecting the presentation format. I hate 3D. I hate hate hate 3D. I think it's the second least cinematic gimmick to infect the