Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts

Jeannie DeAngelis: Amnesty For Ebola

Never mind the threat to 300 million people.   Recently, Time magazine published an article entitled “Ebola Just the Latest Hardship for Liberian Patient in the U.S.” The piece seemed to be written with the intent to elicit sympathy for a man who, in his quest to survive, illegally infiltrated a nation carrying a highly contagious hemorrhagic     ... MORE

Angela Graham-West: Political Correctness And Ebola

Political correctness brings Ebola to America. Wednesday night, "CNN Tonight" guests Ben Ferguson and Van Jones both agreed on some things: that in light of the Ebola case in Dallas Texas, a travel ban is not called for, that Obama wasn't responsible for the person getting the virus, and that people are “overreacting”. Van Jones then went on   ... MORE

Henry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays

Curious incentives on display.    The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Observations of a wise man.   I don't know why we are spending our hard-earned money paying taxes to support a criminal justice system, when issues of guilt and innocence are being determined on television — and even punishment is being meted out by CNN's showing the home and address of the policeman accused in the Ferguson, Missouri     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Get Ready For Denials

Terrorists are invited in through the back door.       Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera accused Matt Drudge's website of "the worst kind of jingoistic rhetoric ever" for carrying news stories about the dangers of illegal immigration. He said Drudge "is doing his best to stir up a civil war. I mean, shame on Matt Drudge." Republican Rep.   ... MORE

Paul Hsieh: Gun Violence Is Not A 'Public Health' Issue

Which of these things is not like the other?        1 Measles, 2 influenza, 3 tuberculosis, 4 murder. If you picked #4, “murder,” you’re right. The first three are medical diseases. In contrast “murder” is not a medical problem, although it is a tragic cause of death. But in recent years, anti-gun organizations (and some physicians) are seeking   ... MORE

Allen Smith: Rhode Island Proves Legalizing Prostitution Will Decrease Rape And Sexually-Transmitted Diseases

It happened by accident.       For a brief period of history, Rhode Island was the only state where prostitution was legal in every county. Now, a new report shows legalized prostitution led to a decrease in rapes and sexually transmitted diseases within the state, the Washington Post reports. The report, published by the National Bureau of      ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Who Owns You?

Who should decide your fate?        Darcy Olsen, president of the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, and Richard Garr, president of Neuralstem, a biotech company, wrote "Right to Try experimental drugs" in USA Today (5/28/2014). They pointed out that   ... MORE

Michael Bastasch: EPA Tested Deadly Pollutants On Humans

For the Obama administration's agenda.   The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting dangerous experiments on humans over the past few years in order to justify more onerous clean air regulations. The agency conducted tests on people with health issues and the elderly, exposing them to high levels of potentially lethal    ... MORE

Passive Smoking -- Another Of The Nanny State's Big Lies

Passive smoking doesn't give you lung cancer.        So says a new report publicised by the American Cancer Institute which will come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone with a shred of integrity who has looked into the origins of the great "environmental tobacco smoke" meme. It was, after all, a decade ago that the British Medical      ... MORE

A New Flu Season Of Pain, Profit And Politics

by Gary Null & Richard Gale.        According to all official health reports, we are now fully in flu season.  It is that time of year when public health officials, physicians pediatricians and pharmacists warn that everyone over 6 months of age should protect themselves and get vaccinated. Most Americans, believing the government’s    ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Bogus Health Scares

How activist misinformation harms Americans.       Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up a variety of menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares ranging from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin       ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Profiling

Understanding probability is useful.   Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie "Casablanca," in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to "round up the usual suspects." Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let's look at it. We can think of    ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Seven Surprising Truths About The World

A lot of the bad news you think you know is wrong.     Did you know that the incidence of cancer in the United States has been declining for nearly 20 years? That the spread of pornography correlates with a decline in rape? That average IQs are going up substantially all around the world? These are just some of the truths that are well-known   ... MORE

Wayne Winegarden: Treating Alzheimer's With Regulations

Bureaucracy stands in the way of the best treatment.   The U.S. health care system is rife with rising costs and stagnating quality. All too often, the cure for these ailments calls for ever greater government intervention. Such cures misdiagnose the problem. The health care system’s problems are caused by too little patient control, not   ... MORE

Dr. Gilbert Ross: The Deadly Crusade Against E-Cigarettes

Gov't to ban a sure-fire way to prevent death from smoking. Thursday was "The Great American Smokeout" -- an appropriate day to take a moment to spare a thought for the 44 million Americans in the grip of a deadly addiction. Over half of all smokers tried to quit last year, and an estimated 443,000 died from cigarette-related illness.    ... MORE

Anna Marie Hartman: Legalizing Medical Pot On ARK Ballot

Freedom for doctors to treat patients.      A proposal to legalize medical marijuana will be on the November ballot in Arkansas. Medical marijuana advocates succeeded in getting their proposal before Arkansas voters after turning in more than 74,000 signatures to the Arkansas Secretary of State's office. The group called Arkansans for  ... MORE

Washington Times: A Regulatory Drug Shortage

Cancer patients endangered by FDA bureaucrats. The last thing a sick person wants to hear is that ample supplies of a life-saving medicine have been replaced by a surplus of red tape. That’s precisely what’s happening nationwide, with 82 percent of hospitals reporting shortages so severe that treatment must be put on hold, according to the     ... MORE