“A new light, cheap and fast jet is expected to be certified for flight Thursday. Eclipse Aviation’s E500 will be the first ‘very light jet,’ or VLJ, to receive a provisional certification by the Federal Aviation Administration. Thousands more are expected to take wing over the next decade. The announcement, at the annual AirVenture air […]
“The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to tighten air pollution standards again. What we really need, however, is an effective program to control the EPA. The EPA is facing a legal deadline of September for deciding whether to make the federal standards for fine particulate matter (soot) and ground-level ozone (smog) more stringent. While this […]
Published In: Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Abstract: “The free market is said to have failed in American medicine. However, a free market has not existed in American medicine for more than half a century, and many features attributed to the ‘market,’ even in economics textbooks or treatises by medical organizations, are in fact […]
“Despite widespread testing for high levels of cholesterol and blood pressure, heart disease is a silent killer that often strikes individuals who have not been identified as at risk. In 30 percent to 50 percent of patients with severe hardening of the arteries, their first symptom is an acute, often fatal, heart attack. Medicine ought […]
“HCA is a huge force in Nashville. It touches lives not only through its hospitals, but also through its thousands of local employees, its charity giving and its corporate leadership. Its founders — the late Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., the late Jack Massey and Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. — have been active in all facets […]
“Whatever happened to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into Senator Bill Frist’s sale of his shares in HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain? This is a question that popped into many minds Monday, when HCA, the company that the senator’s family helped found, announced that it is selling to a group of […]
“‘Some Marines say they can see the day when the Corps will be required to execute Haiti-like missions, or worse, within the borders of the United States. … Because of the rising potential for civil disobedience within the inner cities, it is inevitable the U.S. military will be employed more often within American borders. … […]
“They won’t magically solve the problem of rising healthcare costs, and they won’t work for everyone. But more Americans should become familiar with health savings accounts. Few are. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation in February found that 45 percent of Americans had not even heard about HSAs, which have been available since 2004. […]
“The responsibilities that come along with parenthood are endless. There’s feeding, washing and reading the same book about bunnies over and over to a child. Plus, making enough money to provide food, shelter and coveted designer jeans; changing diapers (or finding someone else who will); and surviving 100 years of back-talk. We make those investments […]
“Doctors seeking treatments for malignant brain tumors have found promise in the venom of scorpions, according to a study released on Friday. The study showed that a synthetic version of a protein found in the venom of giant yellow Israeli scorpions targted tumor cells but did not harm the healthy cells of brain cancer patients. […]
