A vast chaos of medicines
Robert Burton on treating depression, from The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): I find a vast chaos of medicines, a confusion of receipts and magistrals, amongst writers, appropriated to this disease… To...
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I recently purchased a bottle of juice from Whole Foods, only to begin vomiting profusely several hours after drinking it. The juice, it turns out, was not pasteurized. At first, I imagined that I had...
View ArticleSubsidizing health insurance upheld
The Supreme Court upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) today — namely, the ability for the government to subsidize health insurance for individuals. In so doing, the Court forced...
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