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RomneyCare: Let the Poor Die As Soon As Possible

PELLEY: Does the government have a responsibility to provide health care to the 50 million Americans who don’t have it today? ROMNEY: Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance,...

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The Cure for Malaria is Development: A Controversial Notion?

I think not. I’ve just returned from a meeting of malaria researchers in Basel, Switzerland. The meetings were excellent. It is rare to have such a wide showing of malaria experts in one place, talking...

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Romney and the Return of the Global Gag Rule

Sadly, I have been pondering the possibility of a Romney win in November. It hadn’t occurred to me, but Romney looks poised to reinstate the “global gag rule.” That is, international groups receiving...

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“Health Care Plans of the Candidates”: Burying Our Heads in the Sand

A short op-ed in the NYT yesterday had this to say: “Mitt Romney’s health care plan offers 15 guiding principles, but appropriately leaves to Congress the resolution of most details. Obamacare’s 2,400...

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Sometimes, when Good Ideas Die, Kids Die (from Malaria)

The Affordable Medicines Facility – Malaria (AMFm), an innovative subsidy program designed to increase access to life saving malaria medications in poor countries, died last week. I would argue that...

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Malaria in the News: 1858-Present

Malaria in the South 1925-1935A subscription to the New York Times gives one access to articles from 1851 onward. A search for all articles with “malaria” in the text yields an amazing 33,800 results....

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Uganda Drops Death Penalty for Homosexuals

The Times reported this morning that the Ungandan lawmaker who originally introduced the now famous bill recommending the death penalty for homosexuals, has drop that particular portion. Instead, he...

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WHO Stating the Absolute Obvious

From the WHO’s “Malaria Elimination: A Field Manual for Low and Moderate Endemic Countries“: “Malaria transmission is particularly difficult to interrupt in areas with efficient mosquito vectors, a...

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“Crowded” Vaccine Schedule Deemed Safe….

as one would expect. The Institute of Medicine within the National Academies of Sciences recently produced a 230 page report addressing the concerns of parents that the current recommended vaccine...

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HIV “Cure” Found in Mississippi: Nothing to be proud of

Dubious reports have surfaced that an allegedly HIV positive infant born prematurely in rural Mississippi to an HIV infected mother has been cleared of the virus due to a non-standard administration of...

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Needless Drug Shortages Threaten the Lives of TB Patients

Several drugs to treat Tuberculosis have made it to the FDA’s drug shortage list. (I recommend a quick glance at the list. Big government (thankfully) at work!) A friend/acquaintance of mine posted...

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Steve Irwin’s Daughter and the “Threat” of Overpopulation

A few days ago, a friend posted a link to an article about a thought piece written by 14 year old Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late television personality Steve Irwin. Bindi was tasked with writing on...

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Brucellosis: My New Bacterial Tenant

Brucellosis hotspot?Though the tests aren’t back yet, I am certain that I have been infected with one (or more) species of a bacteria in the genus Brucella. In humans, Brucella is usually transmitted...

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The Epidemiologic Transition in Kenya: Are Pastoralist Communities Benefitting?

In epidemiology, we have a concept called the “epidemiologic transition,” which illustrates the shift in the the causes of illness and death as humans change from pre-agricultural to agrarian to...

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New Heart Risk “Calculator” : Health care decisions from an Excel sheet?

I was just reading an article on the NYT which described a new method that doctors can use to decide whether to put patients on statins or not. Statins work to prevent cardiac events by reducing...

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Today’s Reads

Lacking anything constructive to write about, I thought I’d list what’s been on my reading list today. First was an article from the Guardian reporting on Mark Zuckerberg’s statements that internet...

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Americans Die Earlier and Live Sicker than Everyone Else: Why?

I was just reading a recent op-ed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “The US Health Disadvantage Relative to Other High-Income Countries Findings From a National Research...

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Apparently, “the Aid Debate is Over.” We Can All Go Home Now.

I was just checking out Bill Easterly’s (author of The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good) article in the January issue of Reason, “The...

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Beautiful Sex Workers Make More Money

That’s what research from University of Michigan Economics Professor Raj Arunachalam has found. He hired sex workers in Ecuador and Mexico to interview other sex workers employed in brothels and as...

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A few articles I’m reading 1/10/2014

That’s the first time I’ve typed “2014″ all year. Wow. Here are some articles I’m reading this morning: 1. The news seems to be all over debates on the general shift toward the right in Europe (a...

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