As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two big surprises. The first is that sustainable sources of energy have now overtaken coal for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The second is that […]

In a new exhibit, there are old unsterilized knives, wooden canes engraved with graduates’ names, a 1950s-era insulin travel kit and a nurse training manikin named “Mrs. Chase.”

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We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Twelve years ago, the Wall St. Journal ran a story about the impact of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which was a sweeping tax bill signed into law by President Obama which locked in the Bush tax cuts for lower & middle-class households while allowing them to expire on schedule for wealthier Americans: A compromise measure, the Act gives permanence to the lower rate of much of the Bush tax cuts, while retaining the higher tax rate at upper income levels that became effective on January 1 due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. It also establishes caps on tax deductions and credits for those at upper income levels. It does not tackle federal spending levels to a great extent, rather leaving that for further negotiations and legislation. The American Taxpayer Relief Act passed by a wide majority in the Senate, with both Democrats and Republicans supporting it, while most of the House Republicans opposed it. The WSJ story, titled "How Much Will Your Taxes Jump?," led to widespread derision at the time for wringing its hands over wealthy people having to go back to (gasp) paying a few percent more of their sky-high incomes in taxes.

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This Medical News article discusses key takeaways from the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s new strategy report on addressing childhood chronic disease.

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

Infant is third pediatric victim of particular respiratory disease since 2008

TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests that older adults, particularly Generation X women, have high rates of addiction to ultra-proce