We can’t blame the supply chain this time, say drug makers. Between COVID-19, RSV, and the flu, we’re a nation of runny noses and high temperatures. And that’s why some of the most common over-the-counter drugs for treating pain and fever – like Tylenol and Advil – are in short supply, especially when it comes to children's versions of those medicines.
How to cope? Pediatrician Sean O'Leary says it’s important to remember that these medications simply treat symptoms; they have nothing to do with how quickly your kid recovers. And in many cases, he says, a sick child may be okay without medicine. (Like my nephew, who my sister captured on video bounding through a home-made obstacle course while COVID-positive, and feverish.)
On its surface, this story looks like a puzzle. Why would an abortion ban effect a woman who very much wants a baby? But pregnancy can be complicated. And the same procedure that is used to prevent infection after a miscarriage is commonly used in abortions. Wisconsin's abortion law, passed in 1849 "...was written solely by men, at a time when neither antibiotics nor ultrasound existed, basic infection control was not practiced, …surgeries were performed without anesthesia, and problems of pregnancy and labor were poorly understood," says University of Wisconsin professor and ObGyn Abigail Cutler.
Nan Goldin, a former opioid addict and an advocate for those suffering from addiction, was disgusted when she found out the Sackler family --owners of Purdue Pharma--were released from liability in 2021. "I've never seen such an abuse of justice," she told NPR.
But Goldin is also an important photographer. And the Sacklers – the family that ruthlessly pushed Oxycontin in the 1990s and 2000s – were some of the best connected and most respected art patrons in the world, with their name on galleries from New York to Berlin. Those galleries sat inside some of the same institutions that wanted to show Goldin’s photographs.
A new documentary film, All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, tells the story of Goldin’s efforts to help scrub the art world of the Sacklers’ imprint. The film also covers the many twists and turns of Goldin’s life – including facing homelessness while growing up in New York City, and tackling the then-controversial subject of AIDS in her work in the late 1980s. NPR reviewer Brian Mann writes that the film illustrates the “power, stubbornness and battle-hardened courage that helped [Goldin] take on the Sacklers.”
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