Category Archives: Health Care

Uh Oh: Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India

Posted on Sat, 14 Jan, 2012 by pmjones

Physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease1. Although reports call this latest form a “new entity”, researchers suggest that it is instead another development in a … Continue reading →

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Government Health Care Kills 23-Year-Old Hottie

Posted on Sat, 14 Jan, 2012 by pmjones

A 23-year-old died of cervical cancer because doctors said she was too young for a smear test, her devastated family have claimed. Mercedes Curnow, from Cornwall, first went to her GP at 20 years old but her mother says her … Continue reading →

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Why We Get Fat: Insulin Secretion, Not Calories In/Out

Posted on Fri, 06 Jan, 2012 by pmjones

Since this regulatory role of insulin in fat metabolism was established in the 1960s, a viable alternative explanation for the cause of obesity has been that it is caused by a dysregulation of insulin signaling.  By this logic, the way … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong With Gruber’s “Health Care Reform” ?

Posted on Thu, 05 Jan, 2012 by pmjones

Given my interest in health economics and graphic novels, I was initially hopeful about Jonathan Gruber’s graphic novel, entitled Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works. But in all honesty, the book is awful. Gruber … Continue reading →

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HPV Vaccine: How You Like Me Now?

Posted on Thu, 06 Oct, 2011 by pmjones

Bad news on HPV:  it now seems to be the leading cause of throat cancer in men. Worse news: it may be spread by kissing. via HPV: It’s Not Just For Ladies Anymore – Megan McArdle – Life – The … Continue reading →

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Price Controls Cause Doctor Shortage in Canada

Posted on Tue, 23 Aug, 2011 by pmjones

I phoned all 84 doctors who were listed as practising within 10 kilometres of my home. Some of their receptionists were polite. Some were surly. All rejected me. … Then I found another Web-based service called HealthAware.ca. It allows you … Continue reading →

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Legalize it. Tax it. Build businesses around it.

Posted on Tue, 14 Jun, 2011 by pmjones

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has long sold weed killer. Now, it’s hoping to help people grow killer weed. In an unlikely move for the head of a major company, Scotts Chief Executive Jim Hagedorn said he is exploring targeting medical marijuana … Continue reading →

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Why Hasn’t Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools?

Posted on Thu, 02 Jun, 2011 by pmjones

[T]he high-risk pools, which were meant to tide people over until 2013, have signed up just 18,000 people as of March. There were supposed to be millions of people who were uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions.  We heard lengthy testimony … Continue reading →

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Is Sugar Toxic?

Posted on Thu, 14 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: “Brave, radical, and smart.”

Posted on Wed, 06 Apr, 2011 by pmjones

[Paul Ryan's] genuinely radical plan goes where Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich never did by terminating the entitlement status of Medicare and Medicaid. (It doesn’t touch the third major entitlement, Social Security, though Ryan has elsewhere argued for extending its … Continue reading →

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