The Simpsons predicted the pandemic, perhaps. Apocalypse Meow. 1 minute 42 seconds

Over the past months, I have been dismayed, and then alarmed, by the continuing erosion of civil liberties in the United States.  My recent op-ed noted that of the ten guaranteed freedoms granted by our Founders in the Bill of Rights, at least four have been regularly trampled (if not completely trashed) by the federal…

The BBC reports:  The UK has lowered its worst-case scenario estimate of possible swine flu-related deaths from 65,000 to 19,000.  Seventy people have died so far in the UK, while 6,000 to 8,000 die yearly from seasonal flu.    Advisors have now agreed that the swine flu death rate is lower than previously thought, likely to…

From the NY Times:  Both BP and multiple government spokespersons told the world this am that the top kill procedure was going well.  Not until late afternoon was the truth told:  the process had been aborted the night before: As hour after hour passed after the top kill began early Wednesday afternoon, technicians along with…

Thursday, 04 March 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, reiterated his call for an independent investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks which killed five people and sickened 17. He issued the following statement: “Despite the FBI’s assertion that the…

“Once you start requiring doctors to get it, doctors are going to think it’s reasonable to make patients get it. It starts you down that mandatory route, and I don’t think we want to go there.” So said George Annas, renowned bioethicist, NEJM columnist and department chair of Health Law at Boston University School of…

Six spot-on suggestions from Steve Nissen, MD to the Obama administration.