b-side Parents buying black-market insulin for their kids as prices skyrocket Mark Frauenfelder

Health Care The current state of American healthcare Matthew B.J. Delaney

Gadgets The ClearUP can whisk away sinus pain from allergies in just 5 minutes Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus Doctors say DO NOT take Dexamethasone to prevent COVID-19, no evidence it works as a coronavirus prophylaxis Xeni Jardin

coronavirus Healthcare providers are allegedly denying chloroquine to patients because of Trump's statements Thom Dunn

health US insurers, sick of being gouged by Big Pharma, will develop cheap generics Cory Doctorow

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

corruption A former pharma rep explains how the industry pushes doctors to overprescribe Cory Doctorow

thanksgiving How to argue with your racist Facebook uncle this Thanksgiving Cory Doctorow

wikileaks What killed Adrian Lamo? Rob Beschizza

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

corruption Ketamine works great for depression and other conditions, and costs $10/dose; the new FDA-approved "ketamine" performs badly in trials and costs a fortune Cory Doctorow

Business Elizabeth Warren reveals her plan to break up Big Tech Cory Doctorow

Business One of pharma's most notorious gougers is going bankrupt, but 2019 is a banner year for shkreli-grade pharmaceutical price-hikes Cory Doctorow

police Drug-sniffing doggo OD'd at EDM cruise ship checkpoint, given Narcan, will be OK David Pescovitz

corruption Elizabeth Warren's new bill: let the US government manufacture generic versions of overpriced, unavailable drugs Cory Doctorow

vitamins "Unapproved pharmaceutical ingredients" the secret to many vitamin supplements Jason Weisberger

Science Johns Hopkins researchers recommend reclassifying magic mushrooms from schedule I to IV drug David Pescovitz

Business "Spread Pricing" transparency reveals the millions CVS rakes in by gouging Medicare and prisons on prescription markups Cory Doctorow