Tag: 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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