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Christopher Bedford of the Federalist dissects a recent problem perpetrated by the political left. Today, the CDC recommends keeping kids masked and away from their peers because of a disease…
Tristan Justice of the Federalist notes the complicated politics surrounding obesity. Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman was caught in controversy early this month after the salad executive linked the severity of…
Don’t miss JLF’s latest Spotlight Report on Dental Therapy: While the national health care policy debate focuses on access to health insurance and health providers, the importance of oral care…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon takes her latest campaign against dubious government spending to the southern U.S. border. The National Institutes of Health is spending roughly $1.5 million…
A brouhaha over signs is brewing in Saluda.
I wonder if Trader Joe’s — which by the way is still interested in the proposed Friendly Avenue/Hobbs Road location —- would consider a federal subsidy to locate in one…
More and more kids are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Experts say it can be traced to terrible eating habits and a lack of physical activity. Yet despite the…
This LA Times story profiles a wonderful volunteer program in which doctors and nurses visit barbershops to screen African-American men for diabetes and heart disease. The program has expanded from…
Upon reading my CJO column today about the three markers of superficial health policy, a reader sent along this story from last week’s Washington Post offering a similar take on…
The World Health Organization parodies itself and pronounces a “global tobacco epidemic“: Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in…
Good news: Espresso is associated with less hypertension and heart disease. Bad news: It’s also associated with obesity, smoking and poor diet. I drink a shot or two of espresso…
Attempts to make fat a treatable disease keep running into minor problems called new medical research. First, the CDC’s headline-grabbing “400,000 deaths from obesity” was scaled back. Then another CDC…