| 02/27/2007 - New "ram"-ifications for human sexuality |
| For all my social commentary (all with pertinent medical angles, of course), I've always been reluctant to weigh in too heavily about homosexuality. Aside from the occasional quip, I try to keep that topic in "ten foot pole" territory… |
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| 02/26/2007 - Ire and ICE |
| As you may know, I write relatively often about illegal immigration. Increasingly, in fact, given the, uh, "increasing" nature of the problem. |
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| 02/23/2007 - The HRT-breaking reality of what you're worth to Big Pharma |
| Attention! There's news (sort of) in the always-contentious debate about synthetic-versus-natural Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). I can't believe I didn't hear about this when it happened over a year ago… |
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| 02/20/2007 - The Prem-pire Strikes Back |
| In the last Daily Dose, I showed you the sobering truth of just how little your life is worth to one of Big Pharma's biggest players… |
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| 02/19/2007 - The HRT-breaking reality of what you're worth to Big Pharma |
| A late-breaking (literally) hormone story… |
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| 02/16/2007 - Orwell was 23 years off on his 1984-cast |
| I know that by now it's the most overused introduction in the editorial world but what can I say - it's true: Everything changed on September 11th, 2001. In no area of life is this more starkly illustrated than in the realm of personal privacy… |
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| 02/16/2007 - License, registration - and fingerprints, please? |
| Once again, privacy and convenience take a back seat to costs and bigger government. Thankfully, it's in the UK, not here… |
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| 02/13/2007 - On shooting - and KILLING |
| It's been a while since I wrote about a pair of my favorite subjects - the abrogation of our right to firearms and the proliferation of a REAL danger to society: Doctors. |
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| 02/13/2007 - Doofus doc throws in the towel - literally |
| A 2002 autopsy of a 60-year-old who'd donated her own cadaver to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine revealed that the woman had lived with a large surgical cloth rolled up INSIDE HER LEFT LUNG… |
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| 02/12/2007 - The wit and wisdom of managerial morons |
| You've probably read the comic strip called "Dilbert." It's basically a continuous skewering of corporate America, as told through the eyes of a stable of hapless characters wiling away their lives in a typical office… |
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| 02/09/2007 - Radiation sickness - of greed |
| If you've been with me for any time at all, you already know how I feel about the most common mainstream treatments for prostate cancer. If you haven't, in a nutshell, it's this: When a guy in a white coat comes at your privates with a knife, run… |
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| 02/06/2007 - Merck's comeuppance continues |
| Reporting on others' woes and misery never gives me pleasure. But reporting on the continuing woes of a pharmaceutical company ALWAYS warms my heart. |
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| 02/06/2007 - Sip your way to a hardy heart |
| Yet again, a study proves the heart benefits of alcohol consumption… |
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| 02/05/2007 - The wrap on (c)rap music, part 2 |
| In the last Daily Dose, I tried to bring you up to speed on just what kind of messages our nation's kids are getting in the music they're listening to nowadays… |
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| 02/02/2007 - The wrap on (c)rap music, part 1 |
| Remember the old days, when the height of sexually suggestive pop music was The Beatles singing, "I want to hold your hand," Tommy James and his Shondells bragging about how his baby "does the hanky-panky," or Elvis rockin' his pelvis a bit… |
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