Cambridge Health Alliance has launched a clinical trial – the first in its history – to see if an inexpensive drug used safely for decades can prevent people with mild or moderate cases of Covid-19 from becoming more seriously ill.

The United States is essentially a captive market for drug makers, which sell drugs at dramatically lower costs everywhere else and rely on profits here to make up the difference. We pay the industry’s research and development costs, and a change, drug …

As the Parmalat scandal hints, and the World Economic Forum going on in Davos, Switzerland, has just confirmed, European businesses are just as feckless and prone to illegality as U.S. businesses — and just as prone to try to avoid, and end, regulation …

At last someone’s saying it and, even better, backing it up with a numbers: “The question is really safety, and the fact is … Canadian procedures for safety are comparable and sometimes even better” than those of the United States. The speaker was Il …