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The Return of Big Tobacco

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by Dan Croak

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act will authorize the FDA to regulate tobacco. However, it will not help "prevent smoking" nor it will "control tobacco" favorably for public health. Phillip Morris strongly supports the legislation and the head of the FDA opposes it. Something is wrong here.

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The Public Genome

by Dan Croak

04.30.07 | The Human Genome Project was a massive effort to determine the sequence of the human genome, now complete. What would be far more useful, however, is to know individual patients’ exact genomes.

The Reform of Health Care

by Dan Croak

04.28.07 | The early Presidential campaigning season is replete with complaints, discussions, and proposals concerning the health care system, widely regarded as broken. It is true that health costs are rising faster than the inflation rate. But rising costs, even of "essential" products and services, such as food, health care, and national defense, do not necessarily demonstrate the existence of a problem.

It's not the uninsured, Stupid

by Dan Croak

04.27.07 | Today marks the beginning of Cover the Uninsured Week. Funded by a conglomeration of unions corporations and foundations the goal of this campaign is to provide health insurance to all of the estimated 47 million Americans who lack it.

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