Viewing Category

Entries for the 'Politics in Health' Category

In one of the slimiest moves ever, Pfizer has gotten a chewable form of their cash-cow drug Lipitor approved for children ten and up in the European U...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
Hardly a week goes by without a pharmaceutical drug being implicated in a widespread horrendous and unintended side effect. In many cases, pharmaceuti...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
I've been making my way through George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 for the past couple days. I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic, end-of-the-world, go...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
I have questioned the medical community silently for almost 40 years of my life. I've always thought that there must be a cause for this demoralizing,...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (1) RSS comment feed |
" After years of delay, EPA is aggressively moving forward by ordering the testing of a number of pesticide chemicals for hormone effects," said Steve...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (2) RSS comment feed |
Health Benefits of Smoking Bans  It has long been known that active smoking increases the risk of heart disease by 2-3 fold, increases risk of lung c...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (2) RSS comment feed |
President Obama's healthcare proposal has gotten ranks of angry citizens to their town halls to yell at their representatives, desperately trying to m...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (2) RSS comment feed |
The swine flu, or the H1N1 virus, continues to win it's share of media attention. I wrote a blog a few months back about what a joke I thought the who...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: Permalink | Comments (6) RSS comment feed |