Tagged: Health and Medicine

The Guardian on 'Gulf war syndrome' soldiers threaten legal action: Four soldiers have threatened to sue the Ministry of Defence after suffering symptoms similar to "Gulf war syndrome", their lawyer said today. The men...

I've been feeling ill since Sunday, so the blogging will be light for a day or two. Yesterday was spent in bed. My head was swimming in a sea of semi-consciousness, my throat was...

Al Jazeera on US female soldiers fall to 'friendly fire': The prohibition of sexual intercourse among US squaddies has not prevented up to 20 of the fairer sex being sent back home after they...

Ron Bailey of Reason on You Shouldn't Live So Long: Fresh off its proposed ban on all human cloning, the President's Council on Bioethics is now considering whether or not it is ethical to...

Ray Rivera, reporting for the Seattle Times on Ailing Gulf vets fear troops today at risk: Like so many veterans of the 1991 war, Mock left the Gulf seemingly healthy. The rashes that soon...

Bob Holmes, writing for New Scientist on Gene therapy may switch off Huntington's: Using gene therapy to switch off genes instead of adding new ones could slow down or prevent the fatal brain disorder...

Dennis O'Brien, reporting for the The Virginian-Pilot on Corpsmen can mean life or death for Marines: As the Marines of Amphibious Task Force East went ashore this week, each platoon took one member of...

L. Neil Smith on Conscripting Our Future in The Libertarian Enterprise: I can make the case — and I will sometime, in another column — that it isn't secret weapons that end wars, anyway,...

Jack Hurst of The Tennessean reports on Metro plan addresses elevated infant mortality for blacks: In Nashville, an African-American baby is nearly four times as likely to die as a white one. That's according...

I wonder what proponents of socialized medicine (like Michael Moore) will have to say about this. CBC News reports that a Victoria woman died in the waiting room of a hospital emergency ward AFTER...