Iraq health declining. Les Roberts cited by NYT as expert
According to the New York Times,, the World Health Organization reports that public health is deteriorating: As a result of these multiple public-health failings, diarrhea and respiratory infections...
View ArticleSelf-mutilation as a life preservative: ‘Anything Not to Go Back’
Those of us old enough to remember Vietnam recall the creativity of men avoiding the draft. Today we see similar signs of a war gone badly wrong, as Newsweek reports: ‘Anything Not to Go Back’ By Tony...
View ArticleLancet editorial cries out on Gaza
Parts of the world medical community are starting to protest the deatj-creating conditions in Gaza. The Lancet has release an editorial criticizing the Israeli attacks on civilian. Here is an AFP story...
View ArticleParachute use to prevent death and major trauma: Missing evidence
I have come across an important article from the British Medical Journal that discusses one of the major gaps in what has come to be called Evidence-Based Medicine. Such a gap is a major scandal for...
View ArticleThe creation of a new “disease,” osteopenia, to sell Merck’s Fosamax
NPR recently had an amazing story by Alix Spiegel of how pharmaceutical company Merck help turn a research term, osteopenia, into a diagnosis “treated,” often ineffectively, by Merck’s drug Fosamax....
View ArticleArmy failing with wounded warrior program
The New York Times devoted its lead article on Sunday to an expose of the treatment afforded “wounded warriors” — soldiers suffereing severe physical and/or mental problems after deployment — in the...
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