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Boomers Smoking
I agree with the Dr.'s post previous to mine. I believe that each of us has a right to do what we think is best for us. I believe marijuana has many medicinal uses and that this slight risk is less than most presciption medications on the market. Look at the side effects of some of these meds and tell me would you rather take them or smoke ...
Posted to Science by Conita1 on September 28, 2009
Another Approach...
Why don't they start from the other end and eliminate farm subsidies for commodity corn that make soda and fast foods so affordable in the first place? By ending the government intervention artificially deflating these prices, we might not need government to artificially inflate them. The effects on public health and on federal coffers would ...
Posted to Human Nature by jerpeck on April 10, 2009
Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009
Re: Lots of ways to be pro-life
I agree, and after watching last night's debate, I have to confess that I'm a bit surprised that there's been so little attention paid to Senator McCain's statement that abortion being allowed when the health of the mother is in danger is ''extreme'' and ''pro-abortion''. To me, this is a huge slap in the face of women everywhere. Senator ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by Abby_Lu on October 16, 2008
The final debate
Ladies: I have to confess that I'm a bit surprised that none of you have addressed Senator McCain's statement that the stance that abortion be allowed when the health of the mother is in danger is ''extreme'' and ''pro-abortion''. Why no discussion of this huge slap in the face of women everywhere? Why no commendation of Senator Obama's view that ...
Posted to XX Factor by Abby_Lu on October 16, 2008
The Big Bailout...Ha!
There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008
ER reform ideas
Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008
Losing the sense of smell
I have partly lost my sense of smell. I have not been able to smell very many things for a long time now. The only things I can smell have to be very strong. I get sinus infections almost every year and I believe that has caused me to lose most of my sense of smell. I hate it when people ask me to smell something and all I can say is that I ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by fairy on July 9, 2008
Re: On contraception...
Saletan:What's the moral objection to insulin? And how do conditions treated by insulin differ from other conditions? Many vegetarians & vegans find the production of insulin to be morally repugnant, as it at least used to use the pancreases of dead mammals, usually pigs & cattle. There are now other ways to synthesize it, but most of ...
Posted to Human Nature by eacole on June 17, 2008
Re: Here's what the fuck I'm talking about...
Or, it is ''I'm 17, my husband is 55, he's raped me as is his right in our society, and I'm pregnant. I have no access to any kind of birth control, and abortion is forbidden by both the government & my religion.'' The woman I'm describing is doomed to suffer through childbirth, probably long & unmedicated. And she has a high ...
Posted to XX Factor by eacole on May 19, 2008

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