In 1969, the Ad Council provided a very important message about venereal disease with a tune as catchy as the clap. Remember friends, VD is for everybody.
Public health
Bayer CEO Marjin Dekkers: Natco Pharma Ltd. (NTCPH) applied directly to India’s patents office and was awarded the nation’s first compulsory license in March 2012 to make a copy of.
Drum leads us to this map of outbreaks of preventable disease. Why the big uptick in cases of whooping cough, mumps, measles and other old-timey diseases in the United States?.
As the political figures of my youth pass away, I realize how few of them I really know much about, even though I'm a pretty political guy obviously. That's especially true of the Reagan Administration. I could probably name 40 or so Reagan appointees without...
The true meaning of freedom is killing your children because you believe God will come down and heal them instead of getting them the medical help they need.
I was reading the obituary of the recently passed lefty journalist Doug Ireland. I didn't know he was a polio sufferer. He seems rather young for it. But then there.
What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn't seen since the days of patent medicine before the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration in 1906 For the study,...
So I hear Dengue Fever is coming to my town and I hope it is this: Unfortunately, it is this: This past summer, Aedes aegypti—the invasive African mosquito best known.
Who could have guessed that anti-vaccination idiocy would lead to illness? A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned.
Not that fashion is exactly my wheelhouse, but this piece on the growth of tanning salon use among white teenage women and the very real health risks involved is worth a mention, not only because it is a growing public health problem that exists for...
Pareene on ABC hiring Jenny McCarthy to co-host The View: McCarthy certainly has a more pleasant, or at least less confrontational, television style. Really the only problem with hiring her.
To build slightly on Scott's post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein's excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy's nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine.