I broke my right humerus, so posts will be limited for a few weeks

Thoughts on treatment of Gulf War Syndrome patients: provided to the Veterans Affairs Research Advisory Committee (RAC) on GWS, February 2003; updated September 2003 Meryl Nass, MD The basic idea of this treatment model is to identify all the patient’s problems (since this is a multi-symptom and multi-organ syndrome) and address each one.  Improving nutrition, healing…

Although I have deep concerns about how government would manage healthcare were it the sole provider of health insurance, there are so many terrible problems with the current system that single payer seems the only way out.  Here is an example of why the concept of markets doesn’t work in healthcare:  it is impossible to…

The 9 new experts wrote to ministers in an open letter to the London Times.  Because the Times charges for access to its content, coverage in the Daily Mail is excerpted below: Fresh doubts: There are calls for an inquest into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly Nine of the country’s leading doctors…

The problem of highly restricted testing in the US The COVID-19 virus is quite deadly (mortality appears to be between 2 and 10% as discussed in my last post) though since we don’t know how many asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic cases there are, we still can’t be sure of this. Why don’t we know the…

The July 6 NYT updated us on shareholder lawsuits against Emergent BioSolutions (EBS), including the lucrative stock trades of Board chair and founder el Hibri ($42 million recently), President Kramer ($10 million) and even board member Louis Sullivan MD, the first black DHHS Secretary, under Bush #1 ($3 million in trades).  The Biden administration just…