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Why do people continue to smoke? Why do we seem to reach a point where education and taxation have not continued to reduce the numbers of people that begin smoking?

Stakeholders, be they individuals or institutions, seek to sway public opinion and policy. Industries, often with the prefix Big, have manufactured doubt, provided financial resources and incentives for their views and delayed regulations.

The Trump administration’s has proposed to create deliverable food for SNAP participants, a "Blue Apron” for those without disposable wealth.

Older adults who drive, and those whose vision is gradually becoming ever more faulty due to cataracts, can greatly reduce their risk of being involved in a car accident if they have corrective surgery, a new study has shown.

Evidently, it is as accurate in medicine as it is in real estate, it is all about location, location, location.

Some technological innovations are merely cool. Others can be only be viewed as life-changing, especially when they address and overcome limitations of the human body. This creation is clearly in the latter category.

How do we improve our technology? Some argue that we sapiens have mad cognitive skills enabling us to develop causal theories that are a roadmap to improvement.

Academia is in meltdown. There simply is no nice way to put it.

I recognize that I am older and that medical training has changed quite a bit.

He was an old man now, and after many years of bickering and infighting, he was called to account for his beliefs.