The US medical system isn’t particularly good at preventing illness. Once someone is sick, doctors hopefully know how to treat them. But historically, there’s been far less focus on preventing people from ...
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The investigations by Democrats that have Trump worried
Updated 8:30am EST Feb. 8 with information on Whitaker’s hearing.
“Adam Schiff?” Donald Trump said Feb. 6 at the White House, when asked about the Democratic congressman from California who chairs the House Intelligence Committe...
It’s 2019 and faxing is still a thing
The fax machine is a symbol of obsolete technology long superseded by computer networks—but faxing is actually growing in po...
Everything the Trump administration hasn’t done to end HIV/AIDS by 2030
Donald Trump is expected to unveil a plan in his State of the Union address tonight (Feb. 5) to end the transmission of HIV in the US by 2030.
The goal is realistic, experts say. If Trump is serious about achieving it, though, his administration needs to radically...
Tonight’s State of the Union guests represent a deeply divided America
President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address tonight is supposed to focus on “unity.”
“We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future,” Trump plans...
Will Stacey Abrams avoid the State of the Union response jinx?
Stacey Abrams, a tax attorney and daughter of a Methodist minister, earned a reputation in Georgia’s state legislature as so fair and detail-oriented that political rivals would bring her their bills to troubleshoot for legal issues.
Tonight (Feb. 5), she’ll es...
Cancer drugs are way more expensive in the US than other countries
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death, just behind heart disease. In 2018, it killed 9.6 million people globally. The same year, there were over 18 million new cases of cancer worldwide, and by 2040, that fi...
Bad UX is keeping hospital prices lists opaque despite new transparency law
Thanks to new US law, we now know the standard price for a cotton ball at the New York Presbyterian Hospital is $1.15. The list price for a skull X-ray at Orlando Health is $695 and NYU Langone’s average charge for a heart transplant is $1,698,831.13.
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