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That's not always possible, and it's not always good advice, but it's very important to put the entire enterprise in perspective, particularly as we consider restructuring our health care system. Specifically, I've come across two recent articles -- both subscription only -- that remind us that Ivan Illich had a point after all . In the July 1 JAMA, Charles Kilo and Eric Larson -- both of them well established on the Dark Side, holding M.D.s -- review the harmful effects of health care. They actually name That Which Can Not Be Named: "On balance, the data remain imprecise, and the benefits that U.S. health care currently deliver [sic] may not outweigh the aggregate health harm it imparts." Uh oh. Now that would be a pretty serious waste of 17% of the U.S. economy. Direct physical harm from adverse effects of treatment is well... [read full story]
Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which brain...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's U.S. healthcare overhaul plan has cleared an important Senate hurdle but lawmakers warned on Sunday of challenges ahead in winning support for passage, even among Obama's own...
People looking for detailed information about cancer outside of hospitals need a range of different information sources, reveals a Cancer Research UK survey published in the November issue of Cancer Nursing Practice.
New York Daily News No Communion for Patrick Kennedy phillyBurbs.com The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode Island said he asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop receiving Holy Communion in 2007 because of the lawmaker's support for...
