“The FDA has moved the deadline from April 30, 2007 to May 29, 2007 for public comments to the FDA document 2006D-0480 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. This extension provides us time to execute the most effective strategy, which is […]
“How should we expand the availability of health insurance to the poor and uninsured? States are debating that issue in many ways. In Wisconsin, there are a variety of plans — ranging from single-payer Canadian-style health plans to more modest efforts to use free-market ideas like health savings accounts and more information about cost and […]
“Our Health Freedom is threatened again. It’s been going on for centuries, this struggle between healers and bureaucrats. Even back in the age of Henry the 8th the surgeons of London got a law passed effectively outlawing their herbalist competitors by granting themselves a monopoly, and, a couple years later, after many herbalists were brought […]
“It’s now been almost three months since I resumed duties as a regular healthcare columnist in this space, and I have to say it feels like I’m writing in a vacuum. I’ve consistently been posting about how various permutations of statism and coercion might be used to help bridge the gap (between this horrendous present […]
“Good fats. Bad fats. With so many new studies and research about saturated, trans and other fats coming at consumers faster than they can digest, it’s hard to know how much and what types of fats should be digested. To help cut through the fat, the American Heart Association has launched a ‘Face the Fats‘ […]
“Virginia Tech suspended or expelled 32 students last year for illicit drug use, according to Kris Reinertson, a junior who heads the Students for a Sensible Drug Policy chapter. Reinertson doesn’t know how many of the cases involved marijuana. Virginia Tech applies a double-standard when it comes to alcohol and marijuana, he says. ‘It’s three […]
“People with migraines also may be suffering from some brain damage as brain cells swell and become starved of oxygen — a finding that may help explain why migraine sufferers have a higher risk of stroke, researchers reported on Sunday. Similar brain damage can occur with concussions and after strokes, the researchers said in this […]
“‘Top-up’ health payments — extra private payments to supplement care provided by the National Health Service (NHS) — are now common across UK healthcare, according to a new report by Doctors for Reform. The authors, three practicing NHS doctors, are urging politicians to join with the medical profession in a national debate on the future […]
“Nearly 95 percent of physicians in the U.S. receive free food, beverages, drug samples, sports tickets or other benefits from drug company sales representatives eager to influence their prescribing habits, according to a report Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Family practice physicians, who prescribe a broad range of drugs, were more likely […]
“The tainted pet food scare, which has swelled into a serious crisis for animal lovers, now has spread to humans. California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the food chain: About 45 state residents ate pork from hogs that consumed animal feed laced with melamine from China. Melamine is used to make plastics, […]
