2010 Dietary Guidelines, deconstructed (Food Politics)
Marion Nestle digests the new 95-page “policy document.” Being a vegetarian is no longer high risk. Change the food environment. “Eat less cake, cookies, ice cream, other desserts, and candy.” That’s pretty explicit.
How Often Does the Oldest Person in the World Die? (Village Voice)
Every six months, more or less. The world’s oldest person in the world died on Monday at the age of 114 years, 195 days. The honor is now held by a woman 37 days younger. Eight out of ten of the last “winners” have been 114, with the other two living to 115.
The fight over the individual mandate is not about liberty (Wash Post)
If the health care bill imposed a “tax” instead of a “penalty,” constitutionality wouldn’t be an issue. Republicans didn’t see the individual mandate as a question of liberty or constitutionality until Democrats passed a bill they opposed. Ezra Klein
Clearing Out the Underbrush in Constitutional Challenges to Health Insurance Reform (NEJM)
Legal perspective on where the constitutionality of health care bill stands. “[T]he progress of this litigation has pruned the branches of legal argument to sharpen focus on the only really viable issue.”
Drug Shortages Distress Hospitals (WSJ)
There’s a growing shortage of injectable generic drugs for cancer and other serious diseases. There are no good substitutes for the drugs recently in short supply. “We think this is near a crisis situation.”
Death Row Inmates Sue U.S. Over Importation of Execution Drug (Bloomberg)
Suit on behalf of death-row prisoners calls for prohibiting import and use of sodium thiopental, a drug no longer available in the US. The drug is a first-stage painkiller in the execution process.
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