New Orleans Most people – and politicians – don’t recognize the real contributions of direct care health workers until their lives or the lives of loved ones depend on them. And, when I say, depends on them, I mean for everything from mobility, to feeding, to bathing, to the most basic and private needs that …
Category: Health Care
India’s Supreme Court Gives Temporary Victory for Key Generic Drugs
New Orleans Thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court in India many desperately ill leukemia patients in Africa and Asia will live, though of course many more will die. The court ruled that that Indian pharmaceutical factories can continue making a generic version of the drug Gleevec made by Novartis. In the developed world …
Hilary Running or Not, Low Income College Students, Tax Numbers, & Sequestered Housing Vouchers
New Orleans Rain chased us all the way through southern Arkansas and into northern Louisiana until Tallulah, a small town at the gateway to I-20 named after the a girlfriend of a railroad engineer that may not have made it to marriage, but achieved some permanence as a way station along the tracks. Waking up in …