Has Wright Line Gone Wrong? Why Pretext Can Be Sufficient to Prove Discrimination Under the National Labor Relations Act

What has gone wrong in stroke research?

What has gone wrong with modern medical care?

kindled early morning fire, there is now at last a renewed and growing recognition of how much the so-called humanities contribute to good medical practice. This reminds us clearly about how far modern medicine has been pushed off course from real care of patients. As valuable as scientific knowledge is, alone it is not enough. From earliest civilization there has been strong recognition that t...

Jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board

In the historic decisions in the Jones & Laughlin and companion cases sustaining the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act, the Supreme Court made no attempt to define or particularize the instances in which the invocation of the act by the Labor Board would constitute a valid exercise of the federal power. It contented itself with defining the limits of the Board's jurisdiction...

Coronavirus: Where Has All the Health Economics Gone?

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

One More Death from Visceral Leishmaniasis Has Gone by Unnoticed. What Can Be Done?

In January 2010, a 35-year-old mother from the village Baniyapur in Bihar, the poorest and second most populous state in India, had been weak and very ill for months with high fever, anemia, and wasting. She finally travelled by train to New Delhi to seek medical help in a major hospital. She was diagnosed with visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the most common febrile vector-born disease in Bihar, a...