Obama takes a science test
We grade Obama on four of his answers to 14 questions about science and provide the link to the rest.Posted on August 31, 2008 3:20 PM • 17 Comments •
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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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Health insurance:
I'd love to hear the McCain - Lieberman pillow talk
McCain the ungrateful spouse.Posted on March 21, 2008 4:05 PM • 6 Comments •
Drug prices for elderly rise twice as much as inflation
Medicare Part D. worked so well that's use the same principle for everything.Posted on March 7, 2008 4:20 PM • 12 Comments •
Outraged judge orders punitive damages against health insurance company
Chemotherapy is expensive? Too bad. We have to control costs.Posted on February 24, 2008 4:28 PM • 20 Comments •
Health care in Canada: the emergency room
What's it like under universal health care?Posted on February 10, 2008 3:35 PM • 26 Comments •
Lies the candidates tell
Republican candidates can't tell the truth, even if our lives depend on it.Posted on January 9, 2008 3:57 PM • 39 Comments •
How about Medicare for all?
Medicare works.Posted on December 27, 2007 4:45 PM • 43 Comments •
Big Pharma's blind profits compromise
Genentech's grudging arrangement allows elders to get treatment preventing blindness.Posted on December 24, 2007 7:19 AM • 7 Comments •
National health system in Australia: heading for a fall?
Health system in Oz headed down the drain. What's in the sewer?Posted on November 4, 2007 4:33 PM • 32 Comments •
US health care: waiting for Godot
Comparing a wait time of one year in the US to 3 or 4 weeks in Canada doesn't seem like much of a contest.Posted on July 26, 2007 3:34 PM • 55 Comments •
When the health care system is a lemon
Heart warming? Or just heartburn?Posted on July 25, 2007 4:29 PM • 9 Comments •
Covering no child's behind
No child left insured.Posted on July 16, 2007 4:39 PM • 8 Comments •
Michael Moore puts Sanjay Gupta into intensive care
Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets nailed for journalistic malpractice.Posted on July 13, 2007 4:58 PM • 91 Comments •
The US: a nice place to live, but don't get sick
Maybe it's not the best health care in the world, but at least it's the most expensive.Posted on June 19, 2007 3:42 PM • 39 Comments •
Thoughts about statins
Insurance gaps are preventing some people from taking statins. Penny wise . . .Posted on April 18, 2007 7:22 AM • 10 Comments •
