Archives for September 2004

I’m just trying to point out that dishonesty is far from rare to begin with – a certain amount of it exists in any culture, and has since the dawn of mankind

According to a recent New York Times online piece, the likely reasons more than 800 mammography clinics have closed up shop range from low reimbursement rates from Medicare and insurance companies and the skyrocketing cost of malpractice coverage.

According to the AP and other sources, Clinton wants to resume an active lifestyle as soon as possible – including jogging, which he’s been doing more and more in recent years.

And now, there’s even more evidence backing up the real, undeniable link between breadstuffs and belt-size – a cause-and-effect correlation I’ve been crowing about at the top of my lungs since before the age of disco.

This time, they’re bankrolling a Florida man’s lawsuit against the Atkins diet for supposedly causing his heart disease after only two months on the plan.

Predictably, Glaxo claims the timing behind the announcement has nothing to do with the Big Apple’s lawsuit, but rather in response to the AMA’s new resolution calling for a government-sponsored online resource posting ALL drug trials from all sources

The FDA is also protecting the drug biz from having to report the results of thousands of their medical studies!

Instead of Gestapo tactics like detaining border-crossing seniors at gunpoint, they’ve shifted gears into good old fashioned scare tactics – using the terrorist threat as leverage.

I cannot imagine a study being released to the public that would put people in danger of massive strokes, can you?

I could understand if the study was only done on one drug and was used as self-aggrandizement for the makers of the drug. In this case, the ‘winning’ drug’s competitors also completed the study, and they too showed the other drug to be the better of the two. I need to know what you think about this recently released study and what you plan to do about it.”

The queen of England has gone holistic and has hired a young physician to be the royal doctor. Dr. Timothy Evans is a 1979 graduate of Westminster Hospital Medical School. Dr. Evans says his mission is “to successfully integrate the best of both conventional and alternative medicine in a holistic approach that focuses on prevention as well as treatment…”

With the blind leading the deaf and dumb, the august legislature of Texas contracted with some criminal types in the outside world, and in the prison system itself, to feed their guests in the Texas jails meals based around pseudo-foods like milk powder and soy granules…