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The report pointed to the low number of disciplinary actions taken by the state board...

Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s by Martin Glaberman.

by Ralph Nader / July 16th, 2021 Kicking life-saving solutions endlessly down the road is the mark of the brutish power of the corporations over the innocents. Fifty years ago, medical research warned about the overuse of antibiotics creating mutations of resistant bacterium, making these drugs less effective. Dr. Sidney Wolfe warned about this criminal negligence again and again, along with other colleagues. But the drug companies kept over-promoting to get physicians to over-prescribe. Today, antibiotic resistance takes over 100,000 lives a year just in the U.S. Some bacterium are mutating ...

THIS week, people who were given contaminated blood while schoolchildren in the 1970s and ’80s have been giving evidence at a public inquiry. They were sufferers of haemophilia and were pupils at Treolar’s College, which had an NHS treatment centre to provide them with specialist care. As part of that care, many were infected with viral hepatitis or HIV, and died.   In a response to injury in somebody without haemophilia, an intricate set of protein reactions are set off within the blood. Proteins that normally circulate in blood freely bond together to change the consistency and stop t...

Pfizer Prepares to File for Full FDA Approval of its Covid Vaccine Posted on 2647 Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is set to file for full U.S. FDA approval of its Covid1-9 vaccine by the end of the month. If the FDA were to authorize the request, the company would be eligible to market directly to consumers. Shares rose 1.3% during premarket trading. The three vaccines currently on the market only have an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), which means that though they are “authorized” by the FDA, they have not been “approved.” In order ...