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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...

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Self-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...

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Lancet 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...

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Parachute 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...

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The 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....

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Army 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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