Inmates Forced To Keep Quiet About Scabies Outbreak
Inmates Forced To Keep Quiet About Scabies Outbreak
EPA Delays Obama-Era Chemical Safety Rule Until 2019
The Trump administration seems to be delaying a lot of Obama-era things lately. Not only will has the FDA decided to delay an Obama-era rule that would require manufacturers to “update nutritional facts labels on processed foods,” a move the agency claims is necessary because “manufacturers need additional time beyond the July 26, 2018, compliance date to complete and print new labels for their products,” but now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to delay a “chemical safety rule for nearly two years while it reassesses the necessity of the regulation.”
O, Canada! Celebrate as Essure Pulled from the Market!
Great news from Bayer! While those are words I never thought I’d write they are absolutely true. The Big Pharma giant recently announced that its “permanent” birth control device, Essure, will soon be removed from the Canadian market. Citing dropping sales (of course), Bayer has decided to pull the device from sale and distribution. Canada
Bill Cosby Case Declared a Mistrial
After a week of deliberations, the jury in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial remained deadlocked on “whether to convict the comedian on any of the three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault.” As a result, Judge Steve T. O’Neill, the judge in the case, “declared a mistrial Saturday morning,” putting an end to the
Black Residents of Hamtramck, MI, Back in Court Decades After Winning Discrimination Suit
Black residents of Hamtramck, MI, are back in court for a second time. The plaintiffs were evicted from their homes a half-century ago, as the city pursued an aggressive campaign of urban renewal and revitalization. Finally allowed to return to newly-constructed homes in Hamtramck some forty years after an initial, victorious lawsuit, residents say they’re
Man Arrested and Held on Terrorism Charges Following Attack at London Mosque
A middle-aged man from Wales is believed to behind a terrorist attack which left one dead and injured elven outside a London mosque early Monday morning. Editor’s note: A reader informs us that Osborne is not Welsh. The Guardian states that he was born in Singapore, and that his mother, sister, and nephew currently live in Weston
Big Pharma Two, Patients Zero: Latest Xarelto Suits
Last week, Big Pharma giants Bayer and Johnson & Johnson scored a victory in the second bellwether trial involving the popular blood thinning drug, Xarelto. A federal jury in New Orleans handed down the verdict clearing the companies of all liability for Sharyn Orr’s 2015 death.
Woman Undergoes Cancer Surgery — Doesn’t Have Cancer
Woman Undergoes Cancer Surgery — Doesn’t Have Cancer
Juggling Paperwork With Patient Care – A Physician’s Administrative Burden
Juggling Paperwork With Patient Care – A Physician’s Administrative Burden
The Moral Justification of Capitalism
A few recent news stories have a commonality that may not be immediately apparent. What thread connects Obama’s fiduciary rule, workplace safety, and Donald Trump’s friend Thomas Barrack? They’re all examples of how the moral justification of capitalism has failed to live up to its promise.