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Public Health and Personal Freedom
Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol.
http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/healthfre...
Medical Malpractice lawsuits
Legal Information on medical malpractice lawsuits.
http://www.njlaws.com/medical_malpractice....
Health Care Report
This site, in data graphic form, shows U.S. live expectancy trends and health care spending compared to other nations, raising challenging questions today and looking forward.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/healthcare.ht...
Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Debate Over Resources
International human-rights standards can help point a useful direction while we prepare ourseleves to face a new public-health challenge that has come to the fore in the fight against AIDS.
http://www.hrw.org/editorials/2000/aids-p1...
Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board
From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist."
http://www.nejm.org/content/1998/0339/0025...
Not Another Generation Exposed To Asbestos
An examination of asbestos, its effects on the human body, the state of mesothelioma treatments, and pending legislation on asbestos issues.
http://www.angelfire.com/al4/ban_asbestos/...
No Caps On Non-Economic Medical Malpractice Awards
Facts sheets explaining attempts to legitimize negligent or incompetent conduct by health care providers.
http://www.geocities.com/governmentwatch20...
Infostat, Cargo-Cult Science and the Policy Sausage-machine
Paper on the managerial takeover of clinical practice, and how the process of medical science is distorted by politics and dubious trendy theories.
http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/cargocult...
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2006