Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Walter E Williams: Who Owns You?
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bureaucracy,
disease,
FDA,
government,
health,
politicians,
research,
risk,
safety,
self-ownership
Powerful New Painkiller Gives Drug Warriors A Headache
by Tom Wilemon. Government's noble war to free you from pain relief. A powerful new pain medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that easily can be manipulated by abusers has officials in Tennessee and other states worried. Called
Zohydro, it’s an extended-release form of hydrocodone that comes in a
capsule ... MORE
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discovery,
drugs,
government,
health,
medicine,
painkillers,
regulation,
research,
restrictions
Ten Pot Studies Government Wished It Hadn't Funded
Inconvenient truths for prohibitionists. Number 10. Marijuana use has no effect on mortality: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. ... MORE
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cannabis,
drug war,
health,
marijuana,
medical marijuana,
medicine,
pot,
prohibition,
research
Walter E Williams: The Constitution Or Good Ideas?
Let me run through a few good ideas. I think it's a good idea for children to eat healthful, wholesome foods. In the raising of our daughter, before-dinner treats were fresh vegetables, and after-dinner treats were mostly fruits. I arrive at my gym sometime between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., at least four times a week, to lift weights and use ... MORE
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authority,
compliance costs,
Constitution,
fines,
government,
health,
law,
liberty,
penalties
Lisa Crivelli: The New Faces Of Marijuana
Nothing short of a miracle treatment for epilepsy. Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. Two years ago, ... 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
John Stossel: Bullies Rule
We're told government protects us, but protectors quickly become bullies. Take the Food and Drug Administration. It seems like the most helpful part of government: It supervises testing to make sure greedy drug companies don't sell us dangerous stuff. The FDA's first big success was stopping thalidomide, a drug that prevented the ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
drugs,
FDA,
government,
health,
medicine,
painkillers,
regulation,
vaccinations
Marijuana Research Hampered By Government And Politics
by Ariana Eunjung Cha. Millions of ordinary Americans are now able to walk into a marijuana dispensary and purchase bags of pot on the spot for a variety of medical ailments. But if you’re a researcher like Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist who studies post-traumatic stress disorder, getting access to the drug isn’t nearly so easy. That’s because the ... MORE
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cannabis,
government,
health,
marijuana,
medical marijuana,
medicine,
politics,
pot,
research
David Haranyi: Why Democrats Are Losing Voter Trust
Inside the numbers. According to many experts, Republicans are expected to hold the House and could even take the U.S. Senate. This seems to be a perplexing turn of events for many in the media. "Poll: Democrats' advantage on key issues is not translating to a midterm-election edge," reads the headline of a piece in The Washington ... MORE
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campaign,
Democrats,
election,
GOP,
health,
independent,
labeling,
politics,
poll,
Republican
Toni Clarke: E-Cig Industry Braces For Regulatory Attack
Anti-smoking device has political enemies. Big Pharma and Big Tobacco to name two. Lobbyists for electronic cigarette companies have been beating a path to the White House, hoping to prevent the administration from imposing strict, and possibly costly, rules on the burgeoning $2 billion industry. In November and December, ... MORE
Study Finds Uninsured Get Better Care Than Insured
Why insurance seems to insure inferior care. According to a recent study, severely injured patients are less likely to be transferred to a trauma center if they have health insurance. Researchers from the Stanford University of Medicine found that patients with insurance are less likely to get the best care than those who do not have ... MORE
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economics,
emergency,
health,
health care,
hospitals,
incentives,
insurance,
medical,
policy
50 Reasons This Is The Greatest Period In History
by Morgan House. Other than losing our liberties, life is good. I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from heart disease and stroke are way down. Cancer survival rates ... MORE
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happiness,
health,
innovation,
medicine,
science,
self-interest,
standard of living,
technology
Jacob Sullum: Uncle Sam's Drinking Game
The mixology of medicine and moralism. Does your doctor nag you about your drinking? The federal government wishes he would. Last week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
noted with alarm that most Americans
say they have never discussed alcohol consumption with a health
professional. Physicians' ... 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
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deception,
disease,
dishonesty,
health,
nanny state,
politics,
propaganda,
research,
smoking
Stupid Laws Cause Dangerous Hospital Shortages
by John K. Ross. This week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit alleging mistreatment of a woman in the days leading up to her miscarriage at a Catholic hospital in Muskegon, Michigan. The ACLU accuses Mercy Health Partners of negligence for, among other things, failing to direct Tamesha Means to a ... MORE
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choice,
freedom,
government,
health,
hospitals,
incentives,
law,
politics,
regulation,
rules
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