Month: December 2022

The state’s voters had overwhelmingly supported letting a two-year-old law take effect, and lower courts had refused to put it on hold. View original article Contributor: Adam Liptak

The 9/11 Commission prompted a national reckoning over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A bipartisan bill would create an independent panel to investigate the pandemic response, but the measure is in limbo. View original article Contributor: Sheryl Gay Stolberg

The potent opioid increasingly is afflicting people of color in American cities. “I’ve seen a lot of terrible drugs,” said a veteran drug counselor. “This is the worst.” View original article Contributor: Julie Bosman

The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it’s paying off. View original article Contributor: Ellen Barry

The proposed deal would resolve thousands of lawsuits in multidistrict litigation based in Northern California. View original article Contributor: Christina Jewett

twIn an emotional social-media video posted Dec. 8, singer Celine Dion informed fans that she has been diagnosed with a rare neurological disease called stiff person syndrome. A diagnosis wasn’t easy or straightforward. “I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time…we now know this is what’s been causing all of the … Read more

In the 1980s, many people in the medical community treated chronic fatigue syndrome as a punchline. Some doctors dismissed patients’ debilitating symptoms, including crushing fatigue and crashes after exercise, as figments of their imaginations. Media outlets even dismissively nicknamed the condition “yuppie flu,” since many cases were reported among affluent white women. In the infectious-disease … Read more

Dr. Jennifer Lincoln has amassed nearly 3 million followers on TikTok through her frank, educational videos about sex, abortion, and reproductive care. And soon, she told TIME, the Oregon-based OB-GYN will take on a new role as Executive Director of Mayday Health, a health-education nonprofit founded in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health … Read more