July 10, 2017
Last year, we began to see articles in the press conceding that overpopulation wasn’t going to end civilization. This year, we’re seeing reports on the real population problems—depopulation and aging.
September 25, 2017
Zika eradication programs seemed to be working. That was before Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria wrecked infrastructures in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico. Now, all three regions are water-logged mosquito nurseries, and Puerto Rico may not have basic services for months. That means that mosquito control efforts will suffer.
September 18, 2017
As hurricanes go, Irma wasn’t that bad. Though the eye of storm passed close to my home in Naples, Florida, I was never very worried. Flooding is the killer, not wind, and I’m not on the beach. What worried me was that I might run out of coffee in the aftermath.
September 11, 2017
The Japanese people are well-educated and industrious. In the 1960s, Japan’s economic growth rate was often over 10%, rising to an astounding 13%. By the 1980s, pundits and economists were telling us that the US should be copying Japanese economic policies. I knew people who studied Japanese because they were convinced that it would be the international language of business.
August 28, 2017
One of the most encouraging trends in health care is the emergence of the “Right to Try” movement. This is an effort to change FDA policies that keep dying patients from getting access to investigational drugs. These are drugs that have gone through initial safety studies but not the entire series of clinical trials.
August 21, 2017
For decades, studies have been showing sperm counts falling. Not everyone believed them, and that includes me. But a new study provides powerful evidence that male fertility is, in fact, falling fast all over the world.
August 7, 2017
If you live in the US or Canada, you might not know who Jim Mellon is. But in Great Britain, Mellon enjoys the kind of respect American investors had for Warren Buffet in his younger days.
July 31, 2017
A lot of people are disappointed that Congress failed to repeal or replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Others are angry they even tried. My advice is not to worry too much about this particular fight. We’ve got much bigger problems.
July 24, 2017
It’s summer here in South Florida. Nearly every day, thunderstorms roll in around noon. Power surges and temporary outages caused by lightning are so frequent, I’ve stopped resetting the clock on the microwave.
July 17, 2017
Quite a few people have asked for an update on the Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) trial. If you’ve been reading my digest, you know that TAME is the effort to get metformin (the common diabetes drug) approved by the FDA as an anti-aging drug.
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