Health

The US is facing a shortage of drugs, nurses and reproductive care, while in the UK there aren't enough doctors.

Running on empty.

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Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance has a story today about a rather peculiar family ritual: “On April 3, the tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, 45, turns up at a health services clinic near Dallas with his 70-year-old father Richard and 17-year-old son Talmage. They arrive early in the morning, and, over the course of several hours, the men (and boy) engage in a tri-generational swapping of their blood plasma ” (italics very much mine).