Harm Reduction

The wellness Industry has made a business of scaring people into thinking they are at risk from the benign and mundane.

 

Many of the current nominees for the federal institutions of health, i.e., FDA, CDC, NIH, and HHS, have a checkered past, many being cited as providing false and misleading information during the murky days of COVID.

When Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina on September 26, 2024, the damage and loss of life were unprecedented – 96 storm-related deaths and at least $53 billion in damages.

“The indigenous peoples of North America, including New England, had a rich history of gambling long before European colonization.

Mark Hahn and I dove into a critical issue: the drug shortages caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

One area where AI has been posited to improve healthcare, although I hasten to add that this has yet to be proven, is diagnostic evaluation, the first and perhaps most consequential step in the “journey” from dis-ease to ease.

This week, Red Lawhern, a long-time friend and writer for ACSH, wrote an article taking the Mayo Clinic and one of its clinicians to task for

The EPA has been busy over the last month issuing important regulations on lead: 

Barely aware of their surroundings, it begins with a prick of a needle and a drop of blood. In the past, the blood was placed on a petri dish.