The Alzheimer's Drug Review Medicare Is Still Paying For
Cochrane reviewed 20,342 patients and called the effect absent or trivial. That was Thursday. On Sunday the FDA, Biogen, Eisai, and Medicare have said nothing.
Life
American Fertility Falls to 53.1 Births per 1,000 Women, 23 Percent Below the 2007 Peak
Seven hundred thousand fewer babies than eighteen years ago. Teens down 11 percent. Women 25-29 down 4.4 percent. The curve has not bent back.
Sixty-Three Percent of American Men Have No Close Friends, and the Mortality Math Is Fifteen Cigarettes a Day
The 1990 number was three percent. The 2026 number is fifteen percent with zero close friends. Loneliness is a health variable, not a character complaint.
Japan's Natural Population Decline Widens to Nearly 900,000
Japan recorded 705,809 births against 1.6 million deaths in 2025 — a natural decline of 899,845, the largest on record.
Measles Reaches Ave Maria University and Pushes Florida Into the National Top Four
A Catholic campus in Collier County with a signed-waiver vaccine policy became a measles node. South Carolina still leads. Florida is now fourth.
The GLP-1 Compounding Crackdown Hits Three Weeks and the Market Reconstitutes Around B-12
FDA said April 1 that semaglutide plus a vitamin is a copy. The compounders read that as a workaround and it has become one.
The IRS Lost Twenty-Seven Percent of Its Workforce and the April 15 Refund Line Is the Evidence
Nineteen thousand workers fewer than 2021. Phone target lowered to 70 percent. Two million unprocessed items. Forty-three-day shutdown. The refunds arrive forty-five to one hundred twenty days late.
Nathalie Baye, Four-Time Cesar Winner and Last of the Truffaut Generation, Dies at 77
She played Leo DiCaprio's mother in 'Catch Me If You Can,' won four Cesars, made eighty films, and died Friday evening in Paris of Lewy body dementia.
Bob Kevoian, Who Built the Bob and Tom Show Into Morning-Drive Franchise, Dies at 75
Thirty-two years of nationally syndicated morning radio, a Marconi Award, a Radio Hall of Fame induction, and a cancer podcast he named honestly.
Don Schlitz, Who Wrote The Gambler at Twenty-Three and Never Got Tired of It, Dies at 73
A Durham kid who wrote the Kenny Rogers song that became a Grammy, a movie franchise and a political cliché. Twenty-five country number ones. Hall of Fame inductions in four cities.
Joy Harmon of Cool Hand Luke, Who Made Three Wordless Minutes a Career, Dies at 87
She was twenty-seven when she washed a car in silence and outshone Newman, Hopper and a future Oscar winner. Second act: a Burbank bakery supplying Disney.
CNN Airs Weed 8 on Sunday, Four-Twenty Lands on Monday
Three state postures in one Monday — Boston Marathon security, 4/20 relaxation, and an April 30 surveillance cliff that nobody on the Hill has made a floor speech about.
Earth Day Arrives Wednesday Against the Driest March Since 1895
Three warming stories run in the same edition. The runway opens on a physical accounting, not a rhetorical one.