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Failed state does not even begin to cover it...

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application Moderna announced this evening that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refused to initiate a review of its application for an mRNA-based seasonal influenza vaccine.

Planning? Hah!

America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?

Wow.

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine.

A good bit of history...

How the Gila Monster Gave the World Ozempic How the Gila Monster Gave the World Ozempic: The creature’s toxic venom revolutionized diabetes treatment.

This!

How America Got So Sick The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

The story is not going away...

Was a Canadian baby poisoned by breast milk? Experts say no. Yet a 20-year-old case study remains influential | CBC News A controversial Canadian medical paper, which pinned a baby’s death on codeine passed through breastmilk, is under renewed scrutiny a full two decades after it was published. The paper sparked a sweeping shift in global approaches to pain management and breastfeeding guidance for new mothers.

Is financial "innovation" grift? Certainly it is "ensh*ttifying" our world.

Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way. Regulating the industry is useful. Shaming it is crucial.

Dropping Amazon Prime in next couple of days. Jeff Bezos really is starting to make Musk look like a good guy. Also, this...

More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.

The hubris is certainly colossal...

Company that ‘resurrected’ dire wolf announces frozen biovault for endangered species | CNN Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

Whereas in Canada, we're simply underfunding science and making peer review a joke.

In America science-sceptics are now in charge The Trump administration seems to want less clean energy and more preventable diseases

Cool review!

The Inherited Basis of Coronary Artery Disease | NEJM Investigations of the genetic basis of coronary artery disease have led to advances in mechanistic insights, therapeutics, prevention, and risk prediction. Indeed, most contemporary medicines for c...

Finally!

A Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Oral PCSK9 Inhibitor Enlicitide | NEJM Enlicitide decanoate, an oral proprotein convertase subtilisin–kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor, was shown to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels in a phase 2 trial; longer-term d...