U.S. GAO – How is FDA working to Prevent Drug Shortages?

Friday, December 12, 2025 FDA’s Efforts to Recall Faulty Medical Devices Limited by Insufficient Staffing The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible foroverseeing the safety of medical devices sold in the U.S. and issuingrecalls when they’re found to be unsafe. But recent headlines andhigh-profile lawsuits have drawn attention to the effectiveness of FDA’sefforts. We’ll…

What’s left is an industrial systems competition.  This week, Beijing-based Moonshot AI made history with the release of its latest model, Kimi K3. At 2.8 trillion parameters, K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released—and by early accounts, it is not only competitive with America’s best closed systems, but trades blows with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 on mainstream benchmarks. For…

Consumption demand, which has long powered America’s formidable economy, rests on the promise of cheap energy. But the Trump administration has conflated that with fossil fuels, confusing historic correlation with causation and, in the process, jeopardizing long-term prosperity. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA—After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush called on Americans to go…

While significant healthcare policymaking in Congress has become sporadic and uneven, the executive branch, led by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has filled the void by driving near constant change to key programs. It is an open question whether this executive-centric approach to healthcare policy, which emerged across multiple Democratic and Republican…

Amid all the gloom and doom, there are ways to change the math in your favor.

“The strongest argument for claiming benefits earlier goes beyond the traditional break-even analyses.”