America’s healthy debate on food (Guardian)
To some, vegetables are the new meat. The political right has responded with a kneejerk resentment response. Is this culture warrior overreach?
Teens Seek Plastic Surgery to Combat Bullying (ABC)
Botox injections at age 5 for droopy chin. “The problem is clearly with the phenomenon of bullying, and not with the person’s nose.” Amen
Depression In Women Rampant; Feel Doctors Over-Prescribe Drugs (Medical News Today)
Sixty-three percent of women with mental health issues feel that doctors too readily prescribe drugs to treat low level mental health problems.
The medical establishment shielded Andrew Wakefield from fraud claims (Guardian)
Doctors default to defending other doctors. Dr. Paul Offit finds Brian Deer’s exposé of Wakefield “irrelevant.” “It doesn’t matter that [Wakefield] was fraudulent. It only matters that he was wrong.”
Rhetoric and Reality of Health-Law Repeal (WSJ)
There’s a lot for business to like about health care reform. “I don’t think we’ll get a better solution in the U.S. in our lifetime. If it gets repealed, or gutted, we’ll have to start over and we’ll be worse off.”
A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? (Guardian)
Why do infectious diseases make for great fiction? Boccaccio’s “The Decameron” and Philip Roth’s “Nemesis”
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