ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a generic drugmaker that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation last year, citing problems with safety tests that delayed the recall of a medicine linked to deaths in the U.S. In December,...
Commentary So the next level of ruining the human being has begun. According to a recent article in the BBC, some person at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology was given £10 million by the Wellcome Trust to start making new designer DNA. Because our DNA is such a crapshoot. What does God know anyway? If you didn’t know, the Wellcome Trust “frequently collaborates with the Bill & Melinda...
Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future. gremlin/E+ via Getty Images ~~~~~ Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the world, voices from Silicon Valley to the White House are raising concerns about what they say could be the...
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Reporting Highlights A Powerful Doctor: Dr. Nancy Harper is a leading child abuse pediatrician based in Minnesota. She testifies in criminal trials across the Midwest, almost always for the prosecution. Casting Doubt: Defense attorneys and judges...
The emergence of antiretroviral drugs saved millions of lives — but some worried about long-term health problems. Here’s how that turned out. Miguel, a 63-year-old Los Angeles teacher, recently marked the 38th anniversary of his diagnosis with HIV. The doctor had told him he would be dead in a couple of years. He lived fearful that each passing one might be his last. Miguel started to take AZT...
In April of 2020, physician-scientist Mady Hornig—then an associate professor at Columbia University—experienced an itchy throat, a swollen lymph node and a severely inflamed muscle radiating pain from deep in her ribcage. Three weeks after these initial symptoms, she developed a fever that persisted for two weeks. Before the pandemic, Hornig routinely worked 10- to 12-hour days. Trained in both...
