Computers Plug and Play - Hospitals Plug and Pray Simple, avoidable mistakes can be fatal in the high-tech world of modern hospitals. The New York Times reports:
Thirty-five weeks pregnant, Robin Rodgers was vomiting and losing weight, so her doctor hospitalized her and ordered that she be fed thro... |
Aug 30, 10 |
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The Pill: 50 Years of Unintended Bureaucratic ConsequencesThe birth control pill was approved on Mothers' Day 50 years ago. Although there was a great deal of controversy about the pill's effect on morality, sexual behavior, and family structure, nobody seems to have realized at the time that the pill represen... |
May 19, 10 |
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The Forbidden Silver Bullet Against InfectionMankind has known for a hundred years that there are two basic mechanisms by which you get sick - you can be infected by bacteria or you can be infected by viruses. Bacteria are living cells which reproduce themselves; most bacteria multiply by splittin... |
Apr 16, 10 |
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Our Government's Policies Promote ObesityFood labels and the issue of what constitutes a healthy diet have been contentions ever since the Food and Drug Administration was given the power to regulate what businesses could say about their products. Whenever an advertiser wants to say that eatin... |
Apr 8, 10 |
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Our FDA Wants More Power to Kill Sick PeopleThere are many reasons to oppose greater government influence over our lives. We've pointed out over and over that government doesn't do anything efficiently from delivering mail to running railroads. Government waste has been with us since the dawn of... |
Oct 1, 09 |
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At Last! A Workable Government Solution to our Pension ProblemOur government has finally taken an effective step to deal with our ever-expanding pension liabilities. As is now widely recognized, essentially all American pension systems are grossly under-funded, even state pension systems whose contributions are re... |
Mar 20, 09 |
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No Custom Meds for You!One of the trickiest exercises in governance is finding the right balance between liberty and license. Although many liberals who favor more government intervention in the economy and in our personal lives will admit that the United States is not as fre... |
Oct 23, 08 |
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Forcing Cancer Research OffshoreWe've discussed the urgent necessity of finding new energy sources. Maintaining our current levels of energy consumption is essential not only to maintaining our lifestyle, but to maintaining our food supply. If we lose enough technology or we have to ... |
Oct 17, 08 |
Will Offensicht |
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Nuking E.coliIn a legendary episode of the classic TV show Gilligan's Island, the castaways find a crate of vegetable seeds washed up on the beach and plant them. Their garden grows insanely fast and the vegetables themselves are exceptionally large, but somewhat od... |
Aug 26, 08 |
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The Hot Air of Climate Change, Part 4This is a multi-part series examining the current debate over "global warming", also known as "climate change".
As we examine the global warming arguments, we've found that it is extremely difficult if not impossible to accurately measure the global t... |
Jan 8, 08 |
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The Road to Hillarycare Is Paved With Bad IntentionsHillary hasn't released many details about her "new" health care plan. She says she's learned from her earlier fiasco and that she plans to keep parts of what we have now, but we know that she plans to expand government's role in the health care system.... |
Dec 13, 07 |
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