White deaths increase: drugs, alcohol, suicide, but in US only. Why?

cemetary1-512x320 (1)There’s a big puzzle growing out of that startling new research showing that the death rate among white Americans age 45-54, especially the less-educated, has been rising since 1999. This even though the death rate

Exciting new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease? Nah.

So, exciting new drugs for treating Alzheimer’s disease, right? Wrong. Or, rather, let’s allow for semi-miraculous outcomes and say instead that this recent news is unlikely to be right. Most of the news concerned research results on two monoclonal antibody … Continue reading »

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