Editorial - The HighWire

Scientists Discover Common Bacteria Cures 100% of Colon Cancer in Experiment

Updated 10:35 AM EDT, Sun April 26, 2026

With ‘new’ American cancer numbers released this week, what many feared as an increase during the pandemic years appears to be a reality. As for possible solutions from unlikely places, the list is varied, from DMSO to repurposed drugs like Ivermectin. Bacteria are also being explored as cancer therapeutic agents due to their unique ability…Continue reading Scientists Discover Common Bacteria Cures 100% of Colon Cancer in Experiment

Harvard Built It. DARPA Paid For It. Nobody Governs It.

Updated 5:08 AM EDT, Thu April 23, 2026

Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created something that did not exist six weeks ago: a tiny living robot with a functional nervous system that it built itself. No plug. No battery. No remote control. The little creature swims, explores its environment, and responds to drugs the way a nervous system…Continue reading Harvard Built It. DARPA Paid For It. Nobody Governs It.

You’ve Been Training for This. No, You Haven’t.

Updated 3:46 AM EDT, Tue April 21, 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration has a staffing crisis, a body count, and a recruitment video set to electronic music. Its latest solution: raid the gaming community. On April 10, the Department of Transportation unveiled a campaign targeting video gamers to fill the ranks of the nation’s chronically understaffed air traffic control system. The DOT put…Continue reading You’ve Been Training for This. No, You Haven’t.

Canadian Study: One in Five Kids May Have a Mental Disorder

One in five children and teens in Ontario has a mental disorder, but less than one-third have had contact with a mental health care provider, according to the findings of the latest Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS). The large-scale survey, called the 2014 OCHS for when data collection started, included 10,802 children and youth ages…Continue reading Canadian Study: One in Five Kids May Have a Mental Disorder

Updated 10:08 AM EDT, Mon April 29, 2019

FDA expands blood pressure drug recall for fifth time this year

The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will expand its recall of blood pressure medicines to include four lots of losartan after they were found to contain a cancer-causing chemical. This is the fifth recall in 2019; over the past year, dozens of batches of medications used to treat hypertension have been recalled…Continue reading FDA expands blood pressure drug recall for fifth time this year

Updated 7:09 PM EDT, Sun April 28, 2019

America’s Social & Medical Turning Point

By Jefferey Jaxen 2019 has seen a rapid acceleration of the Overton window with respect to the conversation, as well as the political and social moves, surrounding the vaccine debate. The Overton window is a term for the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. Before California’s Senate Bill 277 passed, few in the state…Continue reading America’s Social & Medical Turning Point

Updated 3:00 PM EDT, Sun April 28, 2019

NIH Blocks Two Doctors From Speaking Out to Investigators

National Institutes of Health keeps scientists critical of clinical trial from responding to U.S. agency inquiry The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government’s premier health research agency, is refusing to allow two of its doctors to respond to government investigators looking into the quality of a continuing clinical trial of new blood-infection treatments on…Continue reading NIH Blocks Two Doctors From Speaking Out to Investigators

Updated 6:22 AM EDT, Sun April 28, 2019

How Public Vaccine Policy Violates Our Right to Informed Consent

By Jeremy R. Hammond In the mainstream discourse about the subject of vaccines, one issue that is never directly raised is the right to informed consent. This right is one of the most fundamental ethics in medicine, and yet the government and media treat it as uniquely irrelevant when it comes to this one particular…Continue reading How Public Vaccine Policy Violates Our Right to Informed Consent

Updated 3:53 PM EDT, Sat April 27, 2019

No Mercy for Mothers Or Their Vaccine Injured Children

by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, parents whose children have been injured by vaccines are being demonized and discriminated against for speaking publicly about what happened to their children after vaccination.1 There is no other minority in America being subjected to public humiliation and censorship for simply speaking the truth.2 Pediatricians are also cruelly bullying and coercing…Continue reading No Mercy for Mothers Or Their Vaccine Injured Children

Updated 8:11 AM EDT, Sat April 27, 2019