Drug Slims Down Obese Monkeys by Killing Fat Cells
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In a study that provides provocative support for a new approach to treating obesity, a drug that kills a particular type of fat cell by choking off its blood supply was shown to cause significant weight loss in obese monkeys.
After four weeks of treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center …
House to Unveil Bill Ending Marijuana Prohibition
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This is good news.
Mr. Frank, Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas) and others will make the bill’s language public Thursday. It would be the first bill of its kind ever introduced in Congress, the release said.
“The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state …
Mexicans Are Fed Up with the War on Drugs
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Not to mince words, the War on Drugs is completely evil, from alpha to omega. No one who believes in human liberty can coherently support it. That its prosecution should have resulted in death and human suffering on such a vast scale constitutes an indictment of every person who has conducted or supported this wicked undertaking from its outset.
Where Drugs Come From: The Numbers
We can now answer the question: “Where do new drugs come from?”. A new paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery takes on all 252 drugs approved by the FDA from then through 2007, and traces each of them back to their origins. What’s more, each drug is evaluated by how much unmet medical need it was addressed to and how scientifically innovative it was.
Healthcare Reform Would Discourage Generic Drugs
Why We Need Generic Copies of Biologic Drugs – NYTimes.com
we continue to spend more on drugs — in part because of the increasing use of so-called biologic medicines, which cost, on average, 22 times as much as ordinary drugs. In 2008, 28 percent of sales from the pharmaceutical industry’s top 100 products came …
Mississippi Hates People with Allergies or Colds
Mississippi governor Haley Barbour signed a bill last month requiring all patients to get a prescription before buying any medicine containing pseudoephedrine.
This is insane. This is seriously insane. This law — and Federal laws requiring Sudafed to be kept behind the pharmacist’s counter — have done nothing to curtail access to meth. These laws have …
Making your flex spending account a little less useful
”Let me be clear. If you like the health plan you have, you can keep it.” President Obama has made this claim multiple times about healthcare reform. But it’s simply not true. Let me offer one small example.
My wife and I enjoy our Flex Spending Account. We put in enough money each year to cover …
Health care is not a human right
This morning I saw a new Facebook poll: ”Is Health Care a Human Right?”. I voted no.
Do you have a right to health care? Yes. And no. My answer ultimately depends on what you mean by a ”right” to health care.
Rights come in two varieties: negative and positive. A negative right can be thought of …
Estimating health care reform costs
Jon R. Gabel writes in the New York Times today, saying that we shouldn’t fear the cost of health care reform because the CBO has a long history of underestimating the savings from reforms.
In the early 1980s, Congress changed the way Medicare paid hospitals so that payments would no longer be based on …
Better Foreign Intelligence Through Chemicals
Looks like the CIA figured out how to win friends & influence people.
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached …