05/30/2008 - CBS under fire over illegal aliens report
Anyone that’s here in the U.S. illegally deserves demonizing and immediate exportation (not necessarily in that order). And I’m not going to play the political correctness game and dance around the issue.
05/28/2008 - Regulators discover contaminated children’s vaccines
According to a published report, federal regulators spotted contaminated children’s vaccines and other serious concerns when they inspected a Merck vaccine plant outside of Philadelphia.
05/26/2008 - Depressing news about antidepressants
If you’ve been with me for any amount of time at all, you know I think that depression is one the most over-diagnosed diseases in modern America. But now, finally, there are other people making some noise about these absurdly over- prescribed pills.
05/25/2008 - What’s REALLY causing your memory loss
Have you ever considered that maybe it’s not your age that’s making things slip your mind? Maybe premature senility isn’t what’s making you more forgetful these days.
05/23/2008 - Protect yourself from killer hospitals
There’s no place more deadly than a hospital. This is a universal and unspoken truth in the health care community: hospitals can be lethal.
05/21/2008 - Why the AHA says more kids need EKGs
There’s yet another danger to the rampant over diagnosis of the so-called “disease” known as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
05/19/2008 - McCain’s self-help healthcare plan
With two political philosophies once again vying for the White House, the issue of America’s healthcare “situation” is once again being re-visited – it’s one of the premiere issues of the campaign.
05/18/2008 - Should Internet companies handle your medical records?
The New England Journal of Medicine has sounded the alarm about Internet companies such as Microsoft and Google that are now offering web-based personal health records.
05/16/2008 - Proposed ban could end Big Pharma freebies
The AAMC has proposed that drug and medical device companies be banned from giving free gifts, free travel, free ghost-writing services – even free food – to doctors, staff members, and students at all of America’s 129 medical colleges.
05/14/2008 - Raw milk’s popularity growing by leaps and bounds
I’m almost ready to declare victory in the government’s absurd war against raw milk. In spite of the efforts of Big Dairy, as well as wrong-headed public health officials from the Federal, and State governments – demand for raw milk is actually growing.
05/12/2008 - The scourge of political correctness spreads across the pond
If anything has been made dreadfully obvious in this election year, it’s that political correctness is rampant throughout our country. But this PC BS is not a uniquely American ailment.
05/11/2008 - Flu shots fall shortagain
According to reports, this year’s flu season was the worst in three years – and they’re saying it’s because the virus that so many people had injected into their systems was completely ineffective against the flu.
05/09/2008 - Ghostwriters for medical researchers?
When a student puts his name on something he didn’t write, we call it cheating. What about when a doctor does it? To me, it’s still cheating – and people like you are the victims.
05/07/2008 - Straight talk about universal healthcare
This November, as in all election years, there are important issues at stake. One of them is the issue of socialized medicine or, to use the Democrats’ latest euphemism for it, “universal healthcare.”
05/05/2008 - Researchers warn of third world diseases in the U.S.
I believe that these increases of tropical diseases are directly related to the increased number of illegal immigrants here in the States from all manner of unhygienic parts of the globe.
05/04/2008 - NPR’s views on illegals ought to be illegal
If you ask me, there’s no greater threat to the country’s well being than the virus of illegal immigration.
05/02/2008 - High fructose corn syrup takes a hit
Hold on to your hats, folks, the FDA did something right for a change. Believe me, I’m just as shocked as you are. Recently, the government agency ruled that products containing high fructose corn syrup can’t be labeled as “natural.”
