The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has canceled a $168,000 grant for an exhibit on Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in suburban Silver Spring, Md. The cancellation might prompt people to “muse”…
On Christmas Eve, Dr. Anthony Fauci celebrated his birthday, but the 84-year-old, a government bureaucrat since 1968 and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2023, shows no sign of slowing down. In…
The Search for Reagan By Craig Shirley (Post Hill Press, 336 pages, $29) It was 20 years ago today, June 5, 2004, that Ronald Reagan passed away. I remember where I was when I heard the news. Many of you…
Sen. Joni Ernst is calling out the Biden administration for continued funding of “pathogens of pandemic potential” research in Guinea. Grants for the project have gone to the EcoHealth Alliance, which Ernst says “can’t be trusted — with dollars or…
I just finished reading Thomas Mallon’s fine historical novel Fellow Travelers and now look forward to seeing the Showtime mini-series that it inspired. Against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, these works concern the Lavender Scare: Gay Americans in the federal government were targeted as…
July 25, 1985, was a red-letter day in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A publicist for the movie star Rock Hudson, who had been looking alarmingly gaunt and was now in hospital, announced that the actor had been diagnosed…
The story may or may not be apocryphal. A medical lecturer was taking questions after a talk and was asked, “Doctor, at what point did physicians start saving more lives than they took?” Came the reply: “Soon. Very soon.” The…
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurers must provide free coverage of HIV prevention medications violates a Christian company’s religious liberty and is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the company, Braidwood Management Inc., said…
“How’m I doing?” Ed Koch famously asked New Yorkers. Almost a decade after the mayor’s passing, former supporters retroactively answer in the negative. The New York Times published an article, “The Secrets Ed Koch Carried,” over the weekend that relied on…
