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
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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 ... MOREFDA Seeks To Make Prescription Painkillers Harder To Get
Government steps up war on drugs. A big change to legal drug policy is in the works. After years of
pressure from public-health and addiction advocates, as well as the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration has
recommended that access to drugs containing the highly-addictive opiod
narcotic hydrocodone ... MOREWho Should Make Medical Choices For You?
by Lawrence W. Reed. Almost a decade ago, I went to Canada to obtain a customized medical procedure on both of my eyes—a procedure not yet approved by federal authorities in the United States. It involved a new “wavefront” LASIK technology designed for patients with a combination of astigmatism and very thin corneas. For more ... MOREMedical Marijuana Stops Severe Seizures In Children
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| Charlotte Figi, patient |
View the following links: A case documented by CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Modesto, California father gives testimonial. 5-year-old boy given Arizona marijuana card, in attempt to fight severe seizures. British researches say cannabis may be treatment for epilepsy. Woman claims seizures stopped after medical marijuana.
Unaware Young People Will Be Biggest ObamaCare Losers
by Scott W. Atlas, M.D. It is a universal truism that the youth will determine our future, and this younger generation has already made its mark. With a massive voter turnout, they played a major role in electing Barack Obama in 2008, when he won two-thirds of the vote among those younger than age 30. And President Obama then capitalized ... MOREArizona Sheriff Ordered To Return Seized Marijuana
Cops not allowed to confiscate medicine. The Arizona Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's ruling that the Yuma County sheriff must return marijuana seized from a woman with a California medical marijuana authorization honored by Arizona. The justices without comment on Monday declined to review a January ruling by the ... MORE
Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Death Panel Members
Another ObamaCare impediment. One of the most politically intense fights over the Affordable Care Act was over the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, infamously dubbed a "death panel" by Republicans during the 2010 elections. On Thursday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner
and Senate Minority Leader Mitch ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Cannabis Is Out Of The Bag
A fed crackdown would backfire. This week the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing
touches on
legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial
distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has
been haunted by the fear that the federal government will try to
quash this momentous experiment in pharmacological ... MOREJackie Calmes: New Worries For Democrats On Health Law
Once ObamaCare is law, there will be hell to pay. As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama’s signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare’s
creation nearly a half-century ago, Democrats are worried that major
snags will be exploited by Republicans in ... MOREMassive New Fed Crackdown On Legal Pot Dispensaries
by Nicole Flatow. In several West Coast cities, federal officials are initiating a new round of crackdowns against dispensaries that are seemingly complying with state medical marijuana law. In Seattle, 11 dispensaries received shutdown warnings. In San Francisco, almost half of the city’s small number of state-licensed dispensaries received ... MOREWayne 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 ... MOREMoises Naim: The End Of Power
A takeover by the micropowers. Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to loose bands of
insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, from
presidential palaces to public squares. It has become harder to
wield power and easier to lose it, and the world is becoming less
predictable as a result. As people become more ... MOREMedical Marijuana Opposition Supports Socialized Medicine
by Amesh Adalja. In England, heroin—a potent pain-killer—is available for use by healthcare providers. But in the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classifies it as a schedule I drug which legally stipulates that it has no clinical use. Marijuana is another Schedule 1 substance that, according to the DEA, has no clinical use. ... MORERichard E. Ralston: The Hydra Of Government Medicine
Only the right principles can save us. We value physicians for their ability to optimize the length and quality of our lives. They value treating and preventing illness, relieving pain and curing disease. Yet the relationship between doctors and patients is increasingly under attack by a relentless government. A hydra-headed monster of multiple ... MOREGovernment Targets Vicodin In War Against Painkillers
More pain for patients helps fight drug war. The DEA for nearly a decade has pushed for tighter restrictions on Vicodin, the nation's most widely prescribed drug. The chronic abuse of such painkillers, and devastating toll associated with this abuse, has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The agency could get its wish ... MORE
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