By the end of this year, the Center for Tobacco Products at the Food and Drug Administration will have received $7.6 billion in user fees since its formation in 2009. Yet, it remains challenging to identify even one clear public health benefit the FDA can claim for this money. And there is a ...
Troubles are coming to the Chinese economy not as single spies but in battalions. The good news is that this should help reduce our inflation rate. The bad news is that trouble in the Chinese economy heightens the risk of a meaningful U.S. and world economic recession. The Chinese economy was ...
Katie Meyer was no ordinary student, even by Stanford’s lofty standards. By all accounts, Meyer was not only an exceptional athlete but also an exceptional scholar and human being. On February 28, Katie, only 21, died by suicide, having received notice earlier that evening that Stanford ...
America’s patent system has a public relations problem. Look no further than the nation’s leading opinion pages. In the Wall Street Journal, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently contended that the system is plagued by “meritless infringement lawsuits” over ...
Last week Donald Trump called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” This tirade was in response to the release of messages between Twitter leaders regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop contents being withheld from their platform ...
Got a few things to get off my chest. My therapist is on a Bahamas vacation that I’m pretty sure my neuroses paid for. Today, you are my therapist. I’ll buy you a drink next time I see you at Martha’s. Then you can tell me your troubles. First, my seven-month old Westie puppy was spayed ...
