A Breakthrough for Schizophrenia? Part II – Medicalizing and Treating Thought Disorders
Part I of this series opened with a recent study on schizophrenia that has sparked renewed controversy on the legitimacy of pre-screening for...
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U.S. Army Reports Record Suicides
On July 15 the U.S. Army reported 32 confirmed or suspected suicides among its troops in June, the highest number in a single...
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ObamaCare Abortion Funding Has Begun
So much for President Obama’s executive order banning federal funding of abortions under ObamaCare. Two states, Pennsylvania and Maryland, have now accepted federal...
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A Friendly Chat With the First Nanny
Every First Lady, it seems, has to have a cause. Lady Bird Johnson had her beautification program. Nancy Reagan had “Just Say No”...
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Avandia: A Case Study in Big Pharma-FDA Collusion
Pharmaceutical manufacturer SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline, found in a 1999 study that its diabetes medicine, Avandia, posed serious heart attack risks — then...
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The Goal Is Rationed Care
Item: “Only a few months after the heated battles on Capitol Hill,” said Time for June 14, “it must have been quite a...
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Donald Berwick: “One Man Death-Panel”
President Obama is under fire from the Left and the Right after his decision to recess appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head the...
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Obama Recess Appointment Calls for Redistribution of Wealth
The latest controversy brewing over President Obama's proclivity for circumventing the legislative branch (and the Constitution) is his recess appointment of Dr. Donald...
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A Breakthrough for Schizophrenia? Part I: Speculation Surrounds Babies’ MRIs
With brave new “apps” on the market every few weeks, high-tech hearing aids that use radio signals instead of microphones, DNA diagnostics for...
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Millions of Expired Swine-flu Vaccines To Be Destroyed As Criticism Mounts
Amidst strong criticism of governments’ responses to the swine flu H1N1 hysteria, nearly half of the more than 150 million swine flu vaccines...
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ObamaCare Gives Small Business the Business
Economist Robert Higgs wrote a paper in 1997 arguing that “regime uncertainty” — “a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their...
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Overtreated to Death
From the “more is better” school of thought comes the idea that more of anything, including healthcare treatments is better, yet studies show...
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House Republicans Detail ObamaCare’s Broken Promises
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on June 23 released a report entitled ObamaCare: Three Months of Broken Promises. The 41-page document (PDF)...
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GOP-favored Alternatives to ObamaCare
Though a recently released report by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) does a fairly thorough and convincing job of contrasting the reality...
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Rep. Steve King Tries to Force House Vote on ObamaCare Repeal
President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, into law on March 23. Immediately several U.S....
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