The Return of Big Tobacco
by Dan Croak
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act will authorize the FDA to regulate tobacco. However, it will not help "prevent smoking" nor it will "control tobacco" favorably for public health. Phillip Morris strongly supports the legislation and the head of the FDA opposes it. Something is wrong here.
Articles
Keep Them Fearful
by Anna O'Leary
05.01.07 | Jon Stewart analyzes American politicians in a serious interview with Bill Moyers.
2008 House Prospects Encouraging for Democrats
by Anna O'Leary
04.30.07 | Private House Democratic polls of the 50 most competitive congressional districts project a gain of 9 to 11 seats in the 2008 elections that would be an unprecedented further surge by the party after its 2006 gain of 30 seats to win control of the House.
The Public Genome
by Dan Croak
04.30.07 | The Human Genome Project was a massive effort to determine the sequence of the human genome, now complete. What would be far more useful, however, is to know individual patients’ exact genomes.
The Reform of Health Care
by Dan Croak
04.28.07 | The early Presidential campaigning season is replete with complaints, discussions, and proposals concerning the health care system, widely regarded as broken. It is true that health costs are rising faster than the inflation rate. But rising costs, even of "essential" products and services, such as food, health care, and national defense, do not necessarily demonstrate the existence of a problem.
It's not the uninsured, Stupid
by Dan Croak
04.27.07 | Today marks the beginning of Cover the Uninsured Week. Funded by a conglomeration of unions corporations and foundations the goal of this campaign is to provide health insurance to all of the estimated 47 million Americans who lack it.
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John Edwards will win the Democratic nomination