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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Nosing Around Complex Medical ChoicesLong, long ago, I read in the Readers' Digest that any sore which would not heal was a sign of a possible cancer. I ignored the small sore on my nose for a while. It would form a scab and the scab would fall off, but the sore was still there.
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Aug 12, 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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Sometimes, There's Just No Right Thing To DoThe New York Times reports a rather sad tale of a lawsuit between the University of Arizona and a small Indian tribe called the Havasupai who lived at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Tribe members suffered from an unusually high incidence of diabetes wh... |
Apr 30, 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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What Happens When Doctors Ignore Effectiveness Research?"Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)" is a major part of the Obamacare bill by which the government plans to take over our health care system. It sounds like yet another meaningless acronym. Would that it were so!
The idea of CER is extremely p... |
Mar 26, 10 |
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Health Care for Men Isn't Simple Enough for RulesDeciding on the proper medical treatment for breast cancer and for giving birth is so complicated and so governed by individual differences that the government hasn't much chance of being able to specify reasonable rules no matter how much money it spend... |
Mar 19, 10 |
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The Chinese Way to Manage Stem-Cell ResearchThe Economist reports that Chinese researchers are doing world-class stem-cell research, but they identify a problem - they don't think that Chinese medical research is regulated tightly enough. Their article opens:
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Mar 5, 10 |
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Health Care Change We Can Believe InAfter a year's solid propaganda, it's very difficult to believe, but it seems to be barely conceivable that Obamacare's socialized takeover of one-sixth of America's economy might, just possibly, be finally dead. Writhe though they may, there doesn't ap... |
Jan 28, 10 |
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The Looming Nuclear Medicine CrisisWe've written about bureaucrats making it harder to find cancer cures by making it difficult to enroll people in studies of new cancer treatments and we've told how regulations are forcing certain types of heart disease research to be done in other count... |
Nov 12, 09 |
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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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Pope Benedict Tells the Truth About AIDSThe powerful forces of political correctness in modern American life are often aligned with money. The National Science Foundation is beginning to worry about grants going to a gender-balanced research groups as opposed to finding the best researchers, ... |
Sep 29, 09 |
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Government Medical Policies are Bad MedicineWhen government chooses to use its awesome tax powers to create a subsidy, it has profound and undying effects on the economics of the affected industries. Most government subsidies go on forever – solar energy subsidies started 30 years ago during the ... |
Mar 31, 09 |
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Our Perpetual Government-Sponsored Food Fight Anybody who follows nutrition advice in the popular press can be forgiven for thinking that dietary advice is unreliable and uncertain. We've heard that caffeine is bad for the heart, then that it's good for the heart, then that it's bad in certain cas... |
Feb 23, 09 |
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"Barefoot Doctors" in America?We've had another reaction to our article claiming that there's really only one problem in health care - the issue of limiting demand.
With the development of so many extremely expensive medical procedures, there's no limit to the amount of health car... |
Oct 27, 08 |
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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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