Welcome Back Gerald Ford: Obama Redirects Defense Funds for Vaccinations
For the first time since the administration of President Gerald R. Ford, in 1976, the White House is prioritizing an expansion of vaccinations...
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BPA Dangerous in Dental Care?
According to MSNBC.com for September 7, a new study concludes that BPA (Bisphenol A) derivatives, increasingly used in dental resins and sealants, are...
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Patients: 1, Bureaucrats: 0 — For Now
Consumers have won a rare, if possibly temporary, victory for their own freedom to take a drug that has worked for them even...
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Doctors Prescribe ObamaCare Repeal
Everyone is familiar with the routine when visiting a doctor’s office: The doctor or his assistant checks the patient’s vital signs, then discusses...
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DEA Seeks FDA to Regulate Cough Medicine
The Food and Drug Administration is pondering placing restrictions on the purchase of cough suppressants such as Robitussin and NyQuil because these, and...
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Minnesota Governor Says No to ObamaCare Subsidies
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is putting taxpayers’ money where his mouth is. On August 31, he signed an executive order directing state agencies...
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Michelle Obama’s Federal Fat Farm
ObamaCare makes every American’s health the government’s business, but Barack Obama is not the only member of his family interested in employing the...
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ObamaCare: Counting Calories, Not Costs
You may have been aware that the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act, better known as ObamaCare, mandates that chain restaurants with at...
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Putting Lipstick on the ObamaCare Pig
In a March 13 op-ed for the Washington Post, President Barack Obama’s lead pollster, Joel Benenson, wrote: “When it comes to health care...
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At UNC, Abortion Coverage Is Optional — Paying for It Is Not
ObamaCare in microcosm: Beginning this school year, the University of North Carolina will require all students to have health insurance. Students who are...
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Emergency Rooms Need Help STAT
Emergency rooms are becomingly increasingly dangerous places — for ER nurses. According to a May 10 AP article, violence against medical professionals is...
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Massachusetts Medical-record Dump Serves as Warning for All Americans
“Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up...
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Louisana Abortion Laws Attacked
Louisiana has passed two new statutory requirements regarding abortion. One requirement would provide that women who plan to have an abortion first have...
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Medicare Actuary Debunks ObamaCare “Savings”
Medicare’s chief actuary Richard Foster has been a thorn in the side of both Republican and Democratic Presidents. ...
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Tylenol’s Maker Suffers Pain From Recalls
According to legend, in the bad old days before the federal government got into the business of regulating pharmaceuticals, Americans routinely fell prey...
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