Tagged: Health and Medicine

From my good friends at Patient Privacy Rights: Every day all 51,000 pharmacies in the U.S. download, transmit and sell personally identifiable information for every drug they disburse.  Even if you pay cash.  The...

Long-time readers know that I am a supporter of the National Marrow Donor Program's Registry (http://www.marrow.org/) and have been typed and registered since January of 1997.  For DC area readers, there is a marrow drive...

My publication, The Multiracial Activist, recently signed on a coalition letter to the House Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means regarding medical privacy. The letter is available online here. A cross section...

Wil Wheaton has an urgent post on bone marrow donations and the need for donors.  Give it a read. I’ve been on the National Marrow Donor Program’s Registry since January of 1997 and would...

Thomas Bartlett of The Chronicle of Higher Education on The Man Who Would Murder Death: A rogue researcher challenges scientists to reverse human aging: Aubrey de Grey is indeed a prophet. The 42-year-old English...

You've probably noticed that my blogging has been light over the last week. Last Friday, I had minor surgery to correct a condition I've dealt with for about five or so years. Specifically, the...

Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Bush’s Brave New World: President Bush’s little-publicized New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has proposed comprehensive mental-illness screening for all Americans. If this proposal is...

Johann Christoph Arnold writing for All Gulf Vets Magazine on Listening to the Wounded: Facing the incoming from Iraq: It is easy to forget that it has been more than a year since we...