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08/25/06: Fetuses harvested for cosmetic procedures: Repulsive new world of human sacrifice
08/18/06: Proposed National Health Information System won't protect patient privacy
07/28/06: Proposed National Health Information System won't protect patient privacy
07/21/06: Customer Service Rage and Anxiety — a new medical entity
07/07/06: Superman, Lois Lane and Me
06/08/06: Wise Judge rules for compounding pharmacists thereby not compounding a vital medical freedom issue
06/01/06: Junk Science in the Courtroom — ‘Expert Witnesses’ will say anything for money
05/26/06: Junk Science in the Courtroom — ‘Expert Witnesses’ will say anything for money
05/19/06: Medicare's financial problems deepen, Trustees say — Fund could be depleted by 2018
05/12/06: Medical charity illegal, government says
05/05/06: Migration madness: Mental illness on rise
04/28/06: Desperate Husbands: In the O.C. it is the husbands and ex-husbands who are desperate
04/21/06: A MediGas Benefit for Seniors?
04/12/06: Iraq's newly medically and mentally wounded — We must make certain promises to our men and women when we send them to war
04/07/06: Your Doctor Make You Healthy, Not Insurance
03/24/06: Medical-Legal Great Claim Robbery: The Asbestos Heist — Senate needs to act quickly to pass S. 852, the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act, and kill the false budget point of order raised by Sen. Ensign
03/24/06: The Sushi that Stole the Headlines: Mercury and Autism, Autism Rates Decline as Mercury Removed from Childhood Vaccines, Independent Analysis Refutes Institute of Medicine Claims of "No Relationship," Mercury Still Used in Flu & Other Vaccines
03/17/06: MediTrans: A Transportation Entitlement for Seniors?
03/10/06: The Seventh Inning Stretch: Making baseball America's game again while saving pitchers' arms
03/03/06: Government pays for compliance, not medical care
02/24/06: A sordid love affair between certain legislators and personal injury lawyers
02/17/06: The Health of the Union Doesn't Include Health Care
02/10/06: The Super Bowl of Sports Lawsuits
02/04/06: Is suicide right for you?
01/27/06: Another medical myth exposed
01/20/06: Emergency medicine armageddon
01/13/06: The health problems caused by gasoline and car exhaust
01/06/06: Medical logic and illogic
12/30/05: Time for a new medical specialty: The medical mixologist could lessen
12/16/05: Time for a new medical specialty: The medical mixologist could lessen
12/02/05: Another Flu in the Cuckoo's Nest?
11/23/05: America's Courts Stuffed with Turkey Lawsuits, gobbling up court time and taxpayer dollars
11/17/05: African AIDS: A Phantom Epidemic?
11/11/05: Let's kill the malaria mosquitoes now
10/28/05: Diagnosing Baseball's Ills: Treating the Strike Zone
10/07/05: Healing Fractures, Broken Families: A Complication of an ‘Intrauterine Confinement Syndrome’
09/23/05: Iraq Protest: ‘Time for a Break’
09/16/05: Would a Baby Boom Redeem Social Security?
09/09/05: ‘Population Bomb’ Bombs With the Birth Dearth
09/02/05: Drug Money and Advertising: Ask your doctor if these drugs are right for you
08/26/05: Global Warming Controversy vs. Health
08/19/05: That Perfect Smile — Vanity and cosmetic industry save dentistry
08/12/05: The War Against Pain-treating Drugs: Another Failed Prohibition
08/05/05: High risk with low benefit — FDA should not reapprove silicone breast implants
07/29/05: Breast Cancer and the Abortion Link
07/22/05: A Greatest American Dies and No One Notices: A major missed diagnosis
07/15/05: Court's Kelo Decision Justifies Taking Life
07/08/05: Lawyer Ads Can Make You Sick
07/01/05: The American Tort Museum: A Nader Tribute to His Allies
06/24/05: Military Service and the Founding Fathers
06/13/05: The FDA: Safety, Efficacy, Both or Neither?
06/03/05: Doctors Doubt Darwinism
05/20/05: Health Information Technology (HIT) Hits on Patients, Doctors and Hospitals
05/13/05: Warfare, Legalfare or PRfare — Military Discipline as Public Relations
05/06/05: Children With Brain Tumors Don't March
04/29/05: The False Promise of ‘Therapeutic’ Cloning
04/22/05: Government determined to protect you from every possible mistake that you, your health care providers or the pharmaceutical industry might make — and then bill you for it
04/15/05: Dangerous Delusions Corrode our Medical Services
04/01/05: Getting Away with Murder by Death
03/25/05: How abusing claims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder harms women in combat
03/18/05: Dogs & Health: Dog business heals us all
03/11/05: The Misty Myths of Infant Mortality Data
03/07/05: Numb3rs and Medicine: What Are the Real Medical Costs?
02/25/05: Wrong Way FDA
02/18/05: Flat Tax: A more rational medical and tax policy
02/04/05: Heart healthy Chocolate: It's not a dream!
01/28/05: America's healthcare problem stripped of all the rhetoric
01/21/05: Two-Faced Medicare Enforcement
01/14/05: The ABC's of Heart Healthy Dark Beer — For the games make it a dark cold one!
01/07/05/: Jury can fire liars for hire
12/17/04/: Life after Vioxx? — Pharmacetical competition good for patients and the industry
12/10/04: Fake drugs in your local pharmacy?
12/03/04: A Prescription for Taking Back the Right: The Right Rx
11/25/04: New Weapons in the War on Pain Patients and Doctors
11/19/04: Wedding Psychosis: A new diagnosis is born
11/15/04: What's the right price for pharmaceutical drugs?
11/05/04: Berry Healthy: Health Benefits from Antioxidant-Rich Foods
10/29/04: New Scientific Evidence Refutes Existence of Shaken Baby Syndrome
10/25/04: Fact-checking KerryCare
10/05/04: That old-time rare burger: Healthy or not?
09/24/04: Death is not a final diagnosis — Murder rates in US cities comparable to Iraq!
09/10/04: Mercury linked to autism
09/07/04: Sad child disease: Speaking out so that they can speak
08/20/04: Household Olympics: Losing and gaining points
07/30/04: Still Seeking Justice for Dr. Sell
07/26/04: Medicine, genes, sports and longevity
07/16/04: Biotech foods foolishly feared by Franken-Folk
07/09/04: The Runaway Trial Lawyer
07/02/04: Physicians not treating trial lawyers: A shootout at OK Coral and Courthouse?
06/25/04: Dosage makes the poison in 400-year-old mercury murder
06/11/04: Canada's health system dream turns to nightmare
06/04/04: It's A Medical Life — I Remember Yesterday
05/28/04: Back to the Future: Patient Pays Directly for Medical Care
05/21/04: Sue Your Boss Month
05/14/04: Death from painful medical myths
05/07/04: Fear in the Medical Garden of Eden
04/30/04: DDT vs. Death by Malaria
04/23/04: In pain do we part!
04/16/04: Free — or not free — to treat pain
04/09/04: Wrong Military Diagnoses & Treatments
04/02/04: Radiation monster slain
03/19/04: What Do — and Don't — Bush and Kerry Plan to do to Your Health Choices
03/15/04: Dear Rush: We Feel Your Pain, So Now Feel the Pain of Others
03/05/04: Fraudulent use of fraud laws — by government
02/27/04: Population growth, birth control and increased terrorism?
02/20/04: Doctors fighting against doctors, at the behest of the government and lawyers
02/13/04: Legal Cancer in the White House?
02/06/04: Feds Harass Doctors. Who's Next?
01/30/04: Women, the Military and Medical Misconceptions
01/23/04: Welfare for the Wealthy
01/19/04: New diagnoses and strategies create both short and long term problems for medicine and the military
01/09/04: A new plastic phobia?
01/02/04: Baseball Good Medicine?: International Forkball and Split Finger Rotating Our Way Soon
12/26/03: Medicare Bankrupt: A Possible Palliative 12/19/03: Crossing Fruit Street: Some Movies Like "Stuck on You" Cross the Medical Line
12/12/03: Silver Lining in the Medicare Clouds?
12/05/03: Medicare mop up
12/01/03: The Dirty Radioactive Bomb: Rational Response or Fear Itself?
11/24/03: The Caduceus Conspiracy: How the People Lost Medicine and How We Can Take It Back
11/14/03: Mosquitoes kill us; DDT doesn't
11/07/03: Avoiding the Schiavo Scenario: Readers Speak Out With Life-and-Death Comments
10/31/03: The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Case: Speaking out for those who can't
10/24/03: Want health service — go on a diet?
10/15/03: The War on Legal Painkillers: Sen. Kerry owes an apology to the more than 48 million Americans who suffer chronic pain
10/13/03: Medicare defrauds itself
09/19/03: Politics prevents women from learning about abortion/breast cancer risks
09/12/03: Medical mischief
09/05/03: Unholy medicine
08/29/03: The California Tea Party and West Coast Determinism; Voter anger coming your way soon
08/18/03: The outlaw prosecutors: A Justice and Civil Liberties Issue
08/08/03: "Toxic Teeth?"
07/25/03: Resuscitating the Constitution; CPR American Style
07/25/03: Drug reimportation: Bill translates to goodnight, patients
07/11/03: Costly Medicare Changes, Without Real Reform
07/04/03: The Painful DEA II: War on legal drugs ensnares too many doctors and not enough dealers
06/20/03: The Medicare Mess: Will President Bush call Congress' Bluff?
06/13/03: Diagnosis: School Insanity: A suit for sanity and school discipline
06/05/03: Soaring Medical Costs: Rational ignorance or rational enlightenment?
05/30/03: A Tale of Two Admirable Women: Jessica and Annika
05/23/03: Latest medical innovation: Cash
05/09/03: We feel your pain; Physicians have it too no thanks to the DEA
05/02/03: Medical Quarterbacking
04/25/03: CNN the "Conscience-Not Network"
04/21/03: Medical Miranda?
04/11/03: Are childhood vaccines shots in the dark?
04/09/03: The PETA Principle -- The lambshank Redemption
03/28/03: American conscience?
03/21/03: West Wimps or Wings: Treatment for Hollywood Hypocrisy
03/13/03: Worldwide schmaltz shortage looms --- all because of a featherless chicken
03/06/03: Legal metastases are killing us
02/28/03: Outside the Jury Box: Seeking Justice rather than a Lottery in Medical Liability
02/21/03: Workforce temperature rising; employer TLC in demand
02/14/03: Malpractice Insurance: They Reap What They Sue
02/12/03: Hawk, Dove or Groundhog: Diagnosis Critical List; Prognosis Uncertain
02/07/03: How about tax cuts for the "rich" and "poor"?
01/31/03: AIDS Bug Chasers
01/24/03: Libertarian moment or movement?
01/17/03: It's not just 'sue the docs' anymore
01/03/03: A pox on the critics; diagnosis sour grapes
01/03/03: If protesting is good for your health; then at least let's root for the home team
12/20/02: Obesidemic (obesity epidemic) or not?
12/20/02: Time for voluntary informed smallpox vaccinations
12/13/02: The real reason the state opposes homeschooling?
12/06/02: Conscience of a former conservative: Portrait of a political metamorphosis
11/27/02: Thanksgiving dinner hazard?
11/22/02: Time to think outside the box and inside the nucleus
11/15/02: The military should be protected from abusive environmental laws in times of war
11/11/02: Does Kyoto Treaty pose more harm than global warming?
10/31/02: Deep thoughts on Baseball, the World Series and Life: How about them Anaheim Angels?
10/23/02: "Pediatric rule" guinea pigs
10/23/02: Once the World Series ends, we need to create a Donnie Moore Day of Remembrance: Sports and mental health
10/18/02: Congress to senior patients: Do as we say not as we do for ourselves
10/11/02: Using pollution "scare labeling" to political advantage
10/04/02: The Great Asbestos Heist: Did Litigation and Junk Medical Science Helped Bring Down the World Trade Center?
09/27/02: The imminent rise of civic feminism: A far healthier national alternative in war and peace
09/20/02: A Ray A Day" to replace the daily apple?
09/13/02: Beware of celebrities hawking drugs
09/06/02: Avoid 9/11 overdose: Give blood to begin "September of Service," SOS
08/28/02: From Doubleday to strikeday: Baseball's collective anxiety attack
08/23/02: Should she or shouldn't she?: An alternative view on treating menopause with HRT
08/16/02: Cooking up defenses against germ warfare
08/02/02: Medicine, crime and canines
07/26/02: Lies, pathologic lies and the Palestinians
07/19/02: Medicare Drug Follies … as in "now you see it, now you don't"
07/12/02: Anti-Profiling: A New Medically False Belief System
07/08/02: Don't procrastinate, vaccinate!
06/28/02: The scientific advances on the safe and effective deployment of DDT are being ignored, or denied. Why?
06/21/02: Sex and the system: In seeking healthcare men are different from women
06/14/02: The FDA, drug companies and life-saving drugs: Who's the fox and who's the hen now?
06/07/02: Medical Privacy Lost: A hippo on the healthcare back!
05/24/02: To clean up America's game: A (soggy) ground rule
05/10/02: Free speech is good medicine
05/03/02: Medicine's Vietnam
04/26/02: Attack on alternative medicine could lead to alternative lawsuits
04/12/02: Insure the 'crazies'?
04/09/02: No Time for Litmus Tests: In War We Need a Surgeon General and NIH, CDC, and FDA Directors
04/02/02: The scoop on soot: A dirty rotten shame?
03/22/02: Too many beautiful minds to waste: The first annual Caduceus Movie
03/15/02: Terror and transformation: Defense essential for health & state of mind
03/08/02: Diagnosis: Delusional
03/06/02: The great matzah famine
03/01/02: Is new Hippocratic Oath hypocritical?
02/15/02: Why the recent moaning about cloning?
02/08/02: Searching for Dr. Strangelove
01/15/02: Score one for the value of human life
01/04/02: Medical-legal-financial wake-up call
12/28/01: Who's afraid of a 'dirty bomb'?
12/21/01: End of medicine?
12/14/01: More heroes: Docs deserve a little credit after 9/11
11/16/01: Do we need 'Super Smallpox Saturdays'?
11/09/01: Why the post-9-11 health care debate will never be the same
11/01/01: Common sense good for our mental health
10/26/01: Your right to medical privacy --- even in terror time
10/12/01: Failed immigration policy ultimately bad for nation's mental health: Enemy within leads to epidemic of jumpy nerves
09/28/01: Can legal leopards change their spots: A treat instead of a trick
09/21/01: Civil defense again a civic duty
08/30/01: Shut down this government CAFE
08/23/01: School Bells or Jail Cells?
08/15/01: Time to take coaches to the woodshed
08/10/01: Blood, Guts & Glory: The Stem of the Stem Cell controversy

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