With the backdrop of a union facility in a key battleground county of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden on Saturday blistered President Donald Trump as only pretending to care about the working-class voters who helped flip the Rust Belt to the Republican column four years ago. “Anyone who actually does an honest […]
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The world’s most prestigious medical journal has broken with tradition, and for the first time in its 208-year history has published a political editorial, blasting the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus. The New England Journal of Medicine did not specifically endorse former Vice President Joe Biden, but made its […]
NICHOLAS KAMM/Getty Images President Donald Trump arrives back at the White House from the hospital on Monday night For the first time in its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine is wading into political waters, offering a scathing indictment of President Donald Trump in a new editorial. In the […]
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a temporary ceasefire, which went into effect Saturday after nearly two weeks of violent conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region so the two sides could exchange prisoners and recover bodies. Both countries quickly accused the other of breaking it, although the main cities that […]
It is rare for scientists at the highest levels to take an overt stand on the politics of the day, knowing their professional credibility depends on remaining above the fray. Dr. Anthony Fauci, most famously, is a case in point. Fauci, the federal government’s top immunologist, has given his best […]
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies was used to treat President Donald Trump for COVID-19. SEATTLE — Researchers at UW Medicine are partnering with the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center to lead a study of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ antibody cocktail as a way to prevent COVID-19 infections. The researchers are […]
Other polls released over the last week show Biden leading among voters 65 and older, including in the battlegrounds of Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Pew’s survey was in the field from Wednesday, the day after the first presidential debate, through Monday, the day Trump checked himself out of Walter […]
The New England Journal of Medicine has been publishing for a couple of centuries now, and in that time it has never endorsed or condemned a political candidate. That kind of peddling in subjective opinion has been counter to its mission of delivering science-based information. But we live in times […]
Donald Trump, in an unveiled play to a voting bloc he needs to win back in order to secure a second term, told seniors his administration “soon” would make available the same coronavirus treatment drugs he received. © Provided by The Independent “We have medicines right now, and I call […]
Topline In a first for the world’s leading medical journal, which has sought to be nonpartisan, The New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial on Wednesday denouncing the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and calling on its readers to vote out the president out, writing, “They have […]
The leader of the free world is now fighting his own battle with a virus that’s laid global siege. A concoction of some experimental treatments is helping him do it. © Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of […]
One potential downside to being the President of the United States — too much care. Presidents have always received VIP medicine, but “excessive care isn’t necessarily good quality care,” said Dr. J. Randall Curtis, a professor of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Washington School of Medicine in […]
President Donald Trump’s doctor said he is doing “very well” as he spends the weekend at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment of COVID-19. Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, said Trump has been fever-free for 24 hours as he updated the nation on the […]
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, with medical staff, gives an update on the condition of President Trump on Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, with medical […]
CLOSE President Trump’s doctor said Trump is not currently on oxygen, but would not say whether he ever received oxygen since his COVID-19 diagnosis. USA TODAY One potential downside to being president of the United States: too much care. Presidents have always received VIP medicine, but “excessive care isn’t necessarily good […]
Pondering what to write this week, I was aided by other local op-ed writers, still suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. If one read those columns, they’d think Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. One would also wonder when those writers became liberals. Listening to a corrupt mainstream media constantly railing against […]
“It is more important to know what kind of patient the disease has than to know what kind of disease the patient has.” Although Hippocrates made this keen observation more than 2,400 years ago, physicians did not have the tools to decipher the biological and environmental factors influencing an individual’s […]