World Health Organization
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The World Health Organization (WHO), the troubled United Nations (UN) health agency, has just elected a controversial new director-general. The choice should disturb taxpayers, members of Congress, and the Trump administration.
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Budgets/TaxesTobacco
New WHO/NCI Report Falsely Conflates Smoking & Tobacco
by Brad Rodu February 1, 2017The World Health Organization and the U.S. National Cancer Institute recently published a 700-page report on the economic consequences of smoking, tobacco use, or both (here). The dozens of tobacco…
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FeaturedHealth Care
The Zika Virus Disease Outbreak: What Should We Do?
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. February 9, 2016The latest public health panic is over a disease most Americans (even doctors) have never heard of. Zika virus disease (ZVD) is carried by the same mosquito, Aedes aegypti, as other Third World diseases, including dengue and chikungunya.
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Utility companies have blind-sided their customers with digital meters that are harmful, dangerous, invasive and unlawful.
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“[T]he GM debate is over. It is finished. We no longer need to discuss whether or not it is safe. … You are more likely to get hit by an asteroid than to get hurt by GM food.” So said Mark Lynas, the British environmentalist, who helped launch the anti-GMO movement in the 1990s.
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Perhaps the most pernicious side effect is the erosion of the provider-patient relationship. When I first began working with electronic health records, I caught myself staring at the computer screen instead of engaging patients, who rightly felt ignored.