Posted in bipolar, links, medicine, politics, science on March 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
A detailed review of the Mental Health Parity movement, and the push to make health insurers cover mental illness on par with physical illness. No question where I fall on the larger question, but I’d be interested in reviewing any scientific discussion about the ways to show/prove/test for the existence of hormonal/biochemical mental illnesses such [...]
Posted in links, politics, science on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s an interesting Op-Ed piece in the NYT by a wildlife biologist about the impact of buying local on the fall of the sparrow.
Posted in bipolar, crank, government, links, medicine, politics, science on January 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The NYT published an article about drug trials and the underreporting of negative and equivocal study results to the FDA and peer-approved journals, data which factors significantly into the FDA’s assessment of where a proposed drug falls along the risk/benefit spectrum. To me, it’s no surprise. Despite cladding their studies in impenetrable jargon and cloaking [...]
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