Many cancers do not even have reliable screening tests. A single test that can screen for multiple cancers from a few drops of blood would be a huge benefit. Multiple companies are developing such tests.
Category: News and Events
Monday Links – 21 September 2026
- The five second rule is a myth.
- Visit with an out-of-state doctor, Covid era rules allowing interstate telemedicine need to be extended – forever.
- Loopholes in the ACA: Some on the left want employers to pay for them.
- The Smithsonian’s worst sin: Using taxpayer funds to advocate for progressive positions on contemporary policy issues, such as those concerning transgender rights, illegal immigration, and abortion.
- AI can detect cancer years before symptoms appear.
Nursing Home Beds Are Shrinking Just as Boomers Need Them
The New York Times reports that nursing homes are reducing capacity in New York State and across the nation. A recent study found a 5 percent decrease in national nursing home capacity from 2019 to 2024.
Saturday Links – 18 September 2026
The article says the existing FDA method failed to flag possible associations involving myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell’s palsy, tinnitus and other reported conditions. When CDC eventually performed the PRR analysis in 2022, according to BMJ’s examination, hundreds of adverse events met CDC’s statistical alert criteria, even though CDC Director Rochelle Walensky had said the analysis found “no additional unexpected safety signals.”
- Pharma preparing to test and manufacture drugs in space.
- “The average British worker now makes about the same hourly wage as a functionally illiterate American.”
- Benedic N. Ippolito: How to reform Medicare Part D.
- The Uncertain Future of Medicare Part D and Options for Reform
- Chris Jacobs: Obamacare refunds that make sense.