For many years increased mobility was touted as one of the benefits of economic development as well as one of its main drivers, reflecting a virtuous cycle connecting the movement of labor and goods with rising prosperity. Now, however, mobility is viewed as anything but virtuous due to all-important environmental concerns. As in all […]
Just in case we don’t have enough public health crises threatening to push national healthcare systems to their breaking points, here’s another chronic, non-communicable epidemic to obsess about: fatty liver disease (FLD). The specter of FLD unrelated to alcoholism (historically the main cause of the […]
By Donald Pompan, MD, and Michael M. Jacobs, MD, MPH The Senate Homeland Security Committee convened a hearing on 19 November 2020 Chaired by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to examine “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution.” This hearing was not televised nationally and was sparsely attended, even by its own […]
