Category Archives: Viva!

Study finds age, race, provider type tied to improper prescribing

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Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
Jan 31, 2018

Multiple factors may affect antibiotic overprescribing.

We are a long way from a #MeToo moment about race | Chitra Ramaswamy

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Women of colour still get shouted down when they talk about race in Britain – but we won’t be silenced

What happens when a woman of colour talks about race in this country? To answer the question, which presumably white people don’t want to ask because they’re too busy debating the more pressing one of whether racism actually exists, I direct you to a particularly sneering review of Afua Hirsch’s book, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging. A review by a white British man of a book by a mixed race British woman which, inconveniently for the reviewer, confirms in its sheer nastiness everything Hirsch is saying.

Apart from the fact that this is obviously an instance of a review being cynically co-opted as an opportunity to further divisiveness as opposed to an actual conversation (“I know! Let’s get a defensive white man on this!”), it shows how far we are from a moment about race. From, at base level, just being heard. “White privilege,” Reni Eddo-Lodge writes in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, “is a … suffocating blanket of power that envelops everything we know, like a snowy day.” And like snow, its overwhelming effect is silence: to muffle our everyday experience.

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Russia is aiming to interfere in US midterm elections, warns CIA chief

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Mike Pompeo says ‘I have every expectation that they will continue to try’ to meddle in House and Senate races in November

Russia is set to continue its campaign of meddling in foreign elections by targeting the congressional midterm races in America, the head of the CIA has warned.

Related: FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe steps down early

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Breaking: Andrew McCabe steps down as FBI deputy director

BREAKING: Andrew McCabe has stepped down effective today as FBI deputy director, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell @ NBC News pic.twitter.com/kLrhDjzq7B

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 29, 2018

Rep. Swalwell: If McCabe is stepping down for anything other than personal reasons, “this is going to be a problem.”

Rep. Swalwell: If McCabe is stepping down for anything other than personal reasons, “this is going to be a problem.” pic.twitter.com/yWWPpzIfB7

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 29, 2018

CBS News’ Pat Milton reports; source says McCabe was “forced to step down”

NEW: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has stepped down, CBS News’ Pat Milton reports; source says McCabe was “forced to step down” pic.twitter.com/fedIkGzF0h

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 29, 2018