The House is expected to vote on H.R. 1797, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, early next week. You may have noticed some negative press the past couple days. We we will lose this effort if the pro-abortion lobby gets away with defining the message. The lies are certainly flowing, such as Nancy Pelosi’s whopper [...] Continue Reading 
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention says that at any given moment about a quarter of American adults are mentally ill and that over the course of their lifetimes about half of all Americans will develop at least one mental illness. A CDC mental-health fact sheet–Mental Illness Surveillance Among U.S. Adults–says that “published [...] Continue Reading 
Researchers have found a critical element that may explain why some cancers spread farther and faster than others, a discovery that could lead to one of the Holy Grails of cancer treatment: containing the disease. Scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a protein that seems to serve as [...] Continue Reading 
Since we last met, there’s been a number of roller coaster announcements in the story of Sarah Murnaghan, the Pennsylvania 10 year old who recently underwent a double lung transplant operation. Sarah’s mother Janet had become a regular fixture on cable news, captivating a lot of the nation as she challenged the current organ donor [...] Continue Reading 
There is a provision in the healthcare law – the Grassley Amendment – which requires Congressional aides, and possibly lawmakers, to pay the same premiums we all are going to pay. The provision was put in the bill in the first place on the theory that if Congress was going to make the country live under [...] Continue Reading 
Some Boston-based medical ethicists are using a commentary in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine to urge a mutiny by Navy doctors managing a hunger strike at the prison here, and calling on civilian doctors to support them. Wednesday’s article, “Guantanamo Bay: A Medical Ethics–free Zone?” argues that doctors who participate in the force-feeding [...] Continue Reading 
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that naturally-occurring human genes could not be patented, invalidating patents on as many as 5,000 genes. The case specifically involves Myriad, a company that had patented genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are linked to breast and ovarian cancers. Their patents allowed them to have a monopoly on diagnostic genetic testing [...] Continue Reading 
Rising costs associated with President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has a D.C. restaurant mulling the possibility of making their meals less affordable, less filling, or even cutting costs at the expense of staff. “For one to two years [Obamacare has] been the No. 1 issue on our radar,” Clyde’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Owens told [...] Continue Reading 
Coming on the heels of revelations that the IRS spent $50 million on more than 200 employee conferences, it may be inconsequential to find out about $20,000 for a dental conference, $30,000 for a meeting in New Jersey and $1 million for a Head Start gathering. Except perhaps to millions of American taxpayers who grow [...] Continue Reading 
Remember Madonna’s song back in the 80’s, “Papa Don’t Preach”? It was basically a song about a teenager who gets pregnant and tells her daddy she is keeping her baby. This song came to mind after hearing the recent news that the Plan B (or morning-after) pill would now be available to girls of all [...] Continue Reading