06/29/2007 - Drive-through scammograms go west!
False positives = true negatives A couple of recent items in the news have given me an opportunity to revisit a core issue of mine: The needlessness, hazardousness, and inherent unreliability of mammograms.
06/26/2007 - The scandal that won’t die
As you may recall, a few weeks ago, I regaled with a 3-part series about the recent bulk dry pet-food scandal that involves, among other elements
06/25/2007 - Bolts, dolts, and headwear that revolts
Once again, here’s your more-or-less monthly “Dose” of news and events that are just too funny, strange, or surreal not to report
06/22/2007 - Pfizer’s pet project
Two months ago, drug giant Pfizer (maker of Lipitor and Viagra) achieved a pair of firsts when the FDA approved 2 new products in their pipeline – a weight-loss medication and a new motion sickness drug
06/19/2007 - One million AMERICAN suicide bombers
In the last Daily Dose, I told you about how the Navy’s innovative marine mammal program is poised to save American lives both here and abroad.
06/18/2007 - (Sea) Lions and dolphins and bombs, oh my!
Every once in a while, an item I see or read prompts me to write about things that are almost completely unrelated to medicine or politics – yet are just so interesting and mind-boggling that I have to devote some ink to them.
06/15/2007 - All that glitters
Too much of a good thing In most cases, I’d applaud any man who has the cojones to hold Big Pharma’s feet to the fire-especially when it’s directly responsible for messing with his manhood.
06/12/2007 - Viva Locked Vegans
When the leftist, meat-heating media trumpeted this “news” in late 2006, I wasn’t going to dignify it in the Daily Dose, but in light of the story you’ll read in the second half of this essay, it’s now quite pertinent.
06/11/2007 - Screen shockers and teen “e”-boppers
In the last 2 Daily Doses, I’ve talked about an alarming spike in the rate of teenaged suicides in America – as revealed by some CDC numbers from 2003 and 2004, and as reported by the Associated Press
06/08/2007 - Suicidal Nin-tendencies?
In the last Daily Dose, I exposed some misleading facets of an Associated Press piece that came dangerously close to being “advocacy journalism” in my estimation.
06/05/2007 - Facts and Fibbers
We cannot predict when outbreaks of disease will hit. We can’t know for certain when Mother Nature’s wrath will lay us low. We can’t always anticipate terrorist attacks. And we can’t always count on the markets to make us money
06/04/2007 - The “sad” truth about depression’s over-expression
Just when I think that a certain segment of medicine – psychiatry – has been washed so far down a river of drug-money that it can’t ever recover its credibility, I read something that gives me the barest hope for the discipline’s survival
06/01/2007 - Parents: The anti-vaccine
For the last week, you’ve read the latest news – and my latest predictions – about one of the biggest evils on the American medical landscape: Mass vaccinations.
