Category Archives: Health
Cancer Cure Czar
President Obama appointed Joe Biden Cancer Cure Czar.
Obama said he was putting Joe in charge of mission control for a “moon shot” to cure cancer. Politico reports that cancer researchers like the resources but not the “moon shot” approach.
Cancer Cure Czar
Maybe a war on cancer approach would be better than a moon shot. President Nixon tried that in 1971.
Greatest National Security Threat
Not only is climate change our greatest national security threat. It causes terrorism. Trust me.
World Health Hates Hot Dogs
Nagging us about climate change isn’t enough for the World Health Organization. Now it warns that eating processed meat causes cancer. NPR calls it a bad day for bacon. Hot dogs too.
World Health
In a Financial Times piece titled You can either savor the bacon or relish the hysteria Tim Hayward says, “your breakfast banger” is now in a category “with tobacco, alcohol, asbestos and radioactive materials such as uranium.”
Drug Prices
Hillary is making the drug business a campaign issue. A recent NYT story detailed how Turing Pharmaceuticals bought the rights to a 62 year old drug called Daraprim. Turing jacked up the price from $13.50 a pill to $700 a pill.
My question was how can that happen? Why wouldn’t another company sell a generic version at a lower price? According to the WSJ the FDA sets high barriers to entry to the market. Turing already owns rights to market the drug but another firm would have to pay up to $20 million just to get approval to make a generic version.
Planned Parenthood Hearing
It hasn’t gone well for congressional Republicans since they drove out John Boehner last week.
Cecile Richards ran circles around grandstanding congressmen at a Planned Parenthood hearing this week.
And Boehner’s presumed heir to the House, Kevin McCarthy, wrote the Benghazi hearings into Hillary’s ongoing script of The Great Right Wing Conspiracy. Kathleen Parker explains here and Peggy Noonan here.
