Produce industry and Bush administration's short sighted and costly mistake
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Federal health:
Why should the military get a scarce pandemic flu vaccine before almost everyone else?
A weird outcome to an "open and transparent" process.Posted on July 24, 2008 6:44 AM • 38 Comments •
Food safety proposal: throw the bums out
Keystone cops tomato caper.Posted on July 1, 2008 7:49 AM • 27 Comments •
Safeguarding ground zero rescue workers, another heck of a job well rewarded
Incompetent crony alert.Posted on June 8, 2008 3:26 PM • 26 Comments •
Shutting down the information spigot at EPA
Opening the back door of an essential chemical hazards database to industry manipulation.Posted on May 23, 2008 12:02 PM • 2 Comments •
Pandemic flu "lockdown" nonsense
Coping with pandemic flu with computer modelsPosted on March 12, 2008 12:09 AM • 28 Comments •
The CDC Great Lakes report fiasco
What a tangled web we weave . . .Posted on March 6, 2008 4:57 PM • 22 Comments •
"Human protection" fiasco: nevermind
The dummies take it back.Posted on February 22, 2008 4:37 PM • 3 Comments •
CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job
So what else is new?Posted on February 16, 2008 4:30 PM • 25 Comments •
Director of NIH environmental institute resigns under fire
Another one down.Posted on February 9, 2008 7:57 AM • 19 Comments •
Bush responds to my plea to shore up the infrastructure
The slasher is a serial killer.Posted on February 3, 2008 3:14 PM • 37 Comments •
How about Medicare for all?
Medicare works.Posted on December 27, 2007 4:45 PM • 43 Comments •
Bombs, bullets and bupkis* for NIH and CDC
Bush and Congress to NIH and CDC: bend over.Posted on December 19, 2007 4:44 PM • 6 Comments •
Toxic releases. Shhhh.
Double the toxics, double the fun.Posted on December 11, 2007 4:29 PM • 1 Comments •
NIOSH has a blog
A government agency blog is born. Possibly a preemie.Posted on November 21, 2007 3:33 PM • 9 Comments •
Don't go in! Oh, you live here? Fine.
Do as I say, not as I do.Posted on November 20, 2007 3:51 PM • 9 Comments •
Let them eat anthrax vaccine
Ten million doses of a vaccine we don't need.Posted on September 30, 2007 2:17 PM • 13 Comments •
Edwards's cancer policy: a disappointment
Not a public health approach.Posted on August 28, 2007 4:05 PM • 10 Comments •
Abstinence-only makes the taxpayer's wallet grow thinner
Why doesn't Congress "just say no"?Posted on August 8, 2007 4:34 PM • 7 Comments •
The Doctor is Out
Cutting the Surgeon General out of the action.Posted on July 11, 2007 3:48 PM • 8 Comments •
USDA bird's eye view not so sweeping
The US bird establishment isn't ready.Posted on June 26, 2007 7:09 AM • 2 Comments •
Promptness is not a virtue at the FDA
The FDA will get back to you. But don't hold your breath.Posted on June 22, 2007 3:24 PM • 5 Comments •
TB and the police state
Time for your chest x-ray. You might want to bring your toothbrush. Just in case.Posted on June 12, 2007 4:26 PM • 15 Comments •
More on Surgeon General nominee
A homophobe with a record for public health incompetence. What else would you want in a Surgeon General?Posted on May 30, 2007 4:03 PM • 6 Comments •
Bush's Surgeon General nominee. Holy Shit!
No lobbyists need apply. If they are gay.Posted on May 29, 2007 3:26 PM • 60 Comments •
Desperate measures at HHS. They want to talk to you.
Flu blogging gets shows its street creds.Posted on May 23, 2007 7:21 AM • 14 Comments •
Faust looks for a bargain
Coming to a neighborhood near you?Posted on May 8, 2007 4:09 PM • 4 Comments •
History, ancient and not
The making of an unbeliever.Posted on May 5, 2007 7:53 AM • 12 Comments •
Same old same old at FDA
American Enterprise Institute names their new FDA Deputy CommissionerPosted on December 22, 2006 5:13 PM • 3 Comments •
Scotty, we hardly knew ye
The chief science guy leaves the FDA via the revolving door.Posted on December 14, 2006 5:25 PM • 5 Comments •
Public health's elder sibling, Big Brother?
Chuck Hagel introduces legislation that doesn't pass the smell test.Posted on October 5, 2006 7:08 AM • 7 Comments •
The Surgeon General's new gig
The Surgeon General can now be your personal trainer of last resort (luxury variety).Posted on October 3, 2006 7:51 AM • 6 Comments •
Surgeon General fades away . . .
Rich, we hardly knew ya.Posted on September 16, 2006 7:43 AM • 5 Comments •
