12/29/2006 - For once, government gets it right
The Big Apple’s healthy TRANSformation
12/26/2006 - Prosperity breeds contempt?
Young, successful, informed – and depressed
12/22/2006 - The Great Texas Weight-gaining Contest
With all the talk about obesity, it reminds me of some of the things I’ve written about before with regard to our communal fatness – and ways to fight it. Of course, there’s no easy answer to this problem in this zero-willpower, zero-blame age.
12/19/2006 - Retail-ty, thy name is woman!
According to a recent article in the UK Daily Mail (Male?), a survey study of 3,000 British women revealed some staggering factoids about every girl’s favorite pastime.
12/18/2006 - Women’s lip: A fact of life
We spend a lot of time in American society denying or minimizing the differences between the sexes. And as un-PC as it is to say, this is a purely political ploy designed to erase men’s natural advantages in some professional fields
12/15/2006 - Righting a Cholesstewrong
Much is made about the purported benefits of prescription cholesterol (“statin”) drugs. They’re the world’s best-selling class of drug, topping $22 billion in domestic revenue in 2005 alone.
12/12/2006 - Uninformed Consent, part 3
In the last Daily Dose (part 2 of a 3-part essay series), I concluded my thoughts on the FDA’s legislative facilitation of Big Pharma’s drug testing on the unsuspecting public under the heading of “emergency medicine”.
12/11/2006 - Uninformed Consent, part 2
In the last Daily Dose, I wrote to you about the sticky wicket of “informed consent” with regard to medical experimentations. Ninety-nine percent of the time, these “experiments” involve the use of untested or unproven drugs.
12/08/2006 - Uninformed consent, part one
Here’s an interesting and telling story that keeps coming up
12/08/2006 - Holy-land health harangue
According to an Israeli news service, Haaretz, four high-level doctors at a pair of holy-land hospitals have been arrested – for performing illegal medical experiments on elderly patients!
12/05/2006 - Mothers Milk and Udder Delights
As you may know, I’m a big fan of milk for people of all ages – especially raw, natural cow’s milk. However, for newborns and infants up to toddler age, I can honestly say that no milk is better for them than Mom’s own
12/05/2006 - The AAP agrees with me: Kids, drink your milk!
Here’s something very interesting (and more than a little surprising) from the American Academy of Pediatrics
12/04/2006 - Flashback to the 80s: When men were men – at least more so
A month or so ago, I wrote to you about the alarming drop in fertility levels among men in the UK that some scientists are theorizing is due to cell phone usage.
