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Corruption threatens to strangle the new democracy of the former Soviet Union in its infancy. Glas- nost and perestroika have been replaced by naglost (brazen insolence) and perestrelka (shootouts). Whether order based on both freedom and responsibility can emerge from the rubble of collapsed com- munism is an open question. There is no rule of law, no clear definition of property rights, no genuine democracy or market economy for most of the newly freed peoples. Criminal elements have joined forces with the corrupt bureaucrats of the old guard to form networks of collusion. The old nomenklatu...

email article "Melflufen is like the Goldilocks solution: Not too hot, not too cold. It's just right. -- Joshua Richter, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, commenting on the clinical potential of a new therapy for multiple myeloma. "The guidance cannot be clearer that people who have symptoms suggesting they could have coronavirus, and particularly if they've been confirmed positive for COVID-19, should not be flying." -- Leana Wen, MD, of George Washington University, on the challenges of keeping people with COVID-19 off planes. "Often, clinicians and pat...

email article In the late summer of 2019 -- months before COVID-19 was on anyone's radar -- another deadly, previously unseen respiratory illness dominated the headlines. By mid-December, the vaping-related lung disease named EVALI by the CDC had hospitalized 2,500 people across the U.S. and killed 54 -- weeks before the first case of the novel coronavirus was reported in Wuhan, China. By late February of 2020, as the first COVID-19-related deaths were being reported in the U.S., cases of EVALI had been reported in all 50 states, and the death toll had climbed to 68. But by the en...