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Pot Smoking Not Unhealthy... Err...

You can learn a lot about a news outlet's prejudices by comparing the headline with the content. The large print...

Steve Jobs: In Which I Speak Ill of the Dead

Sadly, I agree with Gawker. I agree Jobs produced some nice shiny objects (I'm typing this on one of them),...

One Reason Healthcare Costs Keep Rising

Once upon a time, physicians had a great idea: get the government allow a group of them to control licensing...

Veganism & Mental Health?

I've often wondered why those on the left tend more toward interesting diets than those on the right. This has,...

Let's Put the Government in Charge of Childrens' Nutrition!

What percentage of parents do you think would allow their children to eat this for breakfast each and every day?...

Full Wallets, but Using Health Program for Poor

The New York Times notes people who are otherwise reasonably well off, but cutting off their spouses in order to...

Ending Medical Innovation

Why does Congress now seem to want to discourage the creation of innovative new drugs and life-saving medical devices? That...

WaPo: Besides, Less Health Care is More!

Sometimes it's hard for us "right wingers" to keep track of the myriad ways in which we're supposed to be...

Spanking Lowers IQ?

Time has jumped on the idea. But look a bit down in the article, and you might notice: Still, it's...

Nationalized Healthcare + Open Borders = Increased Demand

Steyn: The minute a first-world country has "free" health care, it becomes the provider of choice to anyone who can...

U.S. Healthcare and Life Expectancy Rates

One of the arguments I hear most often from advocates of socialized medicine is that nations which have government-run healthcare...

Insurance "Reform" and Stealth Price Controls

According to "progressives", Republicans must completely block all "healthcare reform" if you don't want to see a government takeover. How...

Preindustrial Sleep Patterns

Walter A. Brown MD, Psychiatric Times: In the course of gathering information for his book, At Day's Close: Night in...

The Cost of Daylight Savings Time

Daylight savings time disrupts humans' natural circadian rhythm When people living in many parts of the world move their...

Is Milk's Taste Changing?

Late last year (2008), my gal started and I both started to notice that various milk brands here in Denver...

Vegetarian Diet Shrinks Brain?

I've often wondered why vegetarianism frequently (though certainly not always), in the West at least, seems to correlate with a...

The Medicare Advantage Showdown

Is it better to have the government pay doctors directly, or does it make more sense to let Medicare consumers...

Are Girls Going Through Puberty Earlier?

And if so, what is the cause? Ryan discusses the popular belief that something in our food or environment might...

The Glories of the NHS

This is a bit old, but I'm noting it here for posterity... Want more Americans to die of cancer? Let's...

Latest Embryonic Stem Cell Setback

A major setback for "science" (as opposed to religious fanaticism, which is what supporting any other approach would be). In...

Heroin and Methadone Addiction

"Dalrymple", a British prison physician, on heroin: Perhaps I can best describe what I think most people believe about opiate...

Toxoplasmosis and Personality

Courtesy of John Ray, we learn toxoplasmosis, a brain parasite believed to infect slightly less than half the people on...

Abortion: Keepin' It Safe and Legal

World Mag Blog: ... the child was born in a place where it appears, according to an Orlando Fire Department...

African AIDS NOT Spread Vaginally

Given that people of all races -- and locations -- are subject to the same laws of physics, I've long...

Pizza: Health Food

I am eating a small pizza. The box assures me the pizza constitutes three servings. I find this improbable: Who...

Socialized Medicine vs the Tsunami

What has killed more people? The recent tsunami in Asia, or one year of socialized medice in the UK? The answer may suprise you.

Sleep, Obesity Linked

Worried about losing weight? Get enough sleep: We found that people who slept for shorter durations have reduced leptin and...

Yet Another Non-Embryonic Stem Cell 'Miracle'

If John Kerry was elected, Christopher Reeve would be walking today! Or soon! Or something! These miracles are ONLY possible with embryonic stem cells, right? Ach, you poor sheep...

Drug Reimportatation

Mark Steyn talks about drug reimportant. Jon Henke has a light bulb moment. I kibbitz from the sidelines.

Flu Myths?

Steve complains people say crazy things about the flu vaccine. For the most part, I agree with him. Until we...

Super Size Me

One quick follow-up to the last post (which you'll probably read next), from FrontPage Magazine, a comment about the movie...

Pounding the Obseity Drum

The "obesity epidemic" is spreading, unchecked. And the press, and an expansion of federal governmental powers, is necessary to save the day... or maybe not!

Time Magazine, Radley Balko, and the Coming Obesity-Fueled Onslaught

TIME magazine and ABC news slant their coverage of the fast food debate they're creating, and Radly Balko gets involved. But what do food-control advocates really want? I offer a few thoughts on the debate...

Juggling Increases Gray Matter

Sadly, the effect appears only to be temporary. Dr. Vanessa Strumling, a senior lecturer in medical imaging at the University...

FDA & "Morning-After" Dangers

A USA Today article mentions: The recommendation of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panels this month to allow the...

Pretty Women Make Men Stupid

Who knew? New Scientist reports Pretty Women Scramble Mens' Ability to Assess the Future, in which researchers show that after...

Zoloft vesus Exercise

The actions of psychiatrists imply antidepressants are the best solution for depression. But it seems studies indicate otherwise...

Asthma Drugs Hurt, Not Help

Last night, I was talking to a friend, and saying, regarding health care, that very often we had simply no...

Study: Meat Boosts Brain Power

A recent study reports that creatine, a dietary supplement which occurs naturally in meats boosts brain power, at least in...

Fun in the Sun

Everybody looks better in a tan, don't they? Perhaps in the short term -- but what about the long term? Check out these photos...

It's My Metabolism...

Diet advice from the WSJ via Jane Galt: Doctors have long been fascinated by people who claim to eat very...

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