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If You Are STILL Wondering Why Health Care Reform Is Important...

If You Are STILL Wondering Why Health Care Reform Is Important...

Check out this statistic from the Chicago Tribune today: "Illinois consumers to pay up to 60% more [for health insurance premiums], data show." When do they pay more? AFTER they have lost their employer-sponsored health care coverage. In other (...)

5 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Bioethics.net

FBI’s mercy killing of the anthrax case

FBI's mercy killing of the anthrax case

This is our 10th post on the anthrax attacks. Will it be our last? Yes, if the FBI has anything to say about it. They are closing the case. A case they messed up pretty thoroughly from the outset but now want us to believe they’ve solved, even (...)

23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Swine flu in France - an update.

A week of H1N1 in France - a cat with "swine flu", the number of deaths reaches 150 and the vaccination process is extended. It’s a slightly different take perhaps to begin with on the swine flu - or H1N1/influenza A as it’s more commonly (...)

17 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

The French do-it-yourself online swine flu test

The French do-it-yourself online swine flu test

So you’ve got a cough or maybe are running a temperature and you think you might be coming down with "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called in France). Well now (for those living here) there’s a simple (...)

9 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Dancing Around the Cost Issue on Mammography

Dancing Around the Cost Issue on Mammography

Did I say in yesterday’s post that the cost per saved life for giving routine annual mammograms to women under 50 was $3.8 million ? Multiply than by five, according to Dr. Richard Shannon of the University of Pennsylvania, who was one of the (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Merrill Goozner

Another Breast-Cancer Bombshell Lands Amidst The Health-Care Reform Debate

Another Breast-Cancer Bombshell Lands Amidst The Health-Care Reform Debate

Hard on the heels of a study revealing that the benefits of breast cancer screenings have been overstated and come with a the risk of overtreating small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly comes another earthquake : Most women should start (...)

18 nov. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

WHO, swine flu in the Ukraine and bin Laden’s beard

WHO, swine flu in the Ukraine and bin Laden's beard

We were asked repeatedly offline and in the comments for our views on what was or was not going on in the Ukraine, but we steadfastly declined to post on it. We didn’t know any more than you can find out from news sources, so we had nothing to add (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Give Me ObamaCare and Give Me Your So-Called "Death Panels." It’s Surely Better Than What We Have Now.

The conservative blog, mercatornet.com, invited yours truly to be part of a debate on health reform, the controversy over so called "death panels", and my views on the future of the American health care system. The piece written in opposition to (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

France steps up H1N1 vaccination campaign

France steps up H1N1 vaccination campaign

A large proportion of a still sceptical French public will decide for itself this week whether to be inoculated against "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called here) as the government’s vaccination campaign (...)

10 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Surgical masks versus respirators for flu protection

Surgical masks versus respirators for flu protection

We only just got to the surgical/N95 mask article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). We’ve been traveling and haven’t been able to keep up with what others were saying, but we’re sure it’s been well covered (...)

10 nov. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Federal Government Knows That GlazoSmithKline Are Shipping Bulk Quantities Of H1N1 Vaccine Out Of Canada

A lot of Canadians would like to get a shot of H1N1 vaccine, but the Federal Government has screwed things up so badly that frustrations continue to rise across the nation : Extra Canadian flu vaccine sent abroad "Extra vaccine for the H1N1 virus has (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Leftdog

Playing Grandmaster chess with swine flu

Playing Grandmaster chess with swine flu

A reader asked an offline question that is general enough to post about (NB : I try to respond to as many questions as I can, but I’m traveling and can’t keep up, so in most cases I won’t be able to respond. I also don’t hand out (...)

4 nov. 2009 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Science journalists, bloggers and the Brave New World we live in

Science journalists, bloggers and the Brave New World we live in

One of the by-products of the brouhaha (here, here) over The Atlantic article on vaccines was some interesting issues raised by the way the Knight Science Journalism Tracker handled it (here, here). If you aren’t familiar with KSJ Tracker, (...)

29 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Effect Measure

Swine flu parties : I doubt anyone is that dumb, but I’ve been surprised before

Swine flu parties : I doubt anyone is that dumb, but I've been surprised before

CDC is again warning parents not to send your children to a swine flu party. The idea is to provide them with immunity, like used to be done with chickenpox parties. It’s pretty hard to believe this is a live issue and CDC admits it doesn’t (...)

26 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

A Collision Of Scandals : Mammography Meets Head On With Health-Care Reform

A Collision Of Scandals : Mammography Meets Head On With Health-Care Reform

Don’t get me wrong, breast cancer is a very real and too often fatal disease. The more we learn about it the more links to lifestyle, diet and such become apparent. And who doesn’t know women who have survived breast cancer, as well as (...)

22 oct. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Human swine flu in pigs

Human swine flu in pigs

When swine flu appeared, the pork producers were keen to say there was no connection or relationship between pigs and swine flu (even though the virus’s genetic segments were all of swine origin). They didn’t want anyone to call it swine flu, (...)

21 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

France gets the jab as flu vaccination starts

France gets the jab as flu vaccination starts

The campaign to vaccinate France’s population against "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called here) began on Tuesday. And first in line to be injected are the one million or so health professionals working in (...)

21 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

If smokes are bad, what about booze ?

If smokes are bad, what about booze ?

“No, Jon, smoking is not the ‘big deal’ here,” said a Reader’s Write in response to my comment post in Smoking trucker story - still smokin’. I’d said, “That’s almost a side-issue. It’s mainly (...)

20 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

DHHS releases Report Showing How Insurance Companies have descriminated people with Pre-Existing Conditions

DHHS releases Report Showing How Insurance Companies have descriminated people with Pre-Existing Conditions

New Report Examines Insurance Company Practice of Denying Coverage To or Discriminating Against Americans Who Have Pre-Existing Medical Conditions ( Released August 11,2009) In a new report, “Coverage Denied: How the Current Health Insurance System (...)

14 Oct. 2009 | | Enigma4ever

Is "swine flu" the most politically incorrect phrase in the English language ?

Is "swine flu" the most politically incorrect phrase in the English language ?

I agree with one thing that Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst of The Global Language Monitor says : “At this point it is becoming increasingly difficult to engage in any form of public dialogue without offending someone’s (...)

13 oct. 2009 | | Effect Measure

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