Who strangled the FDA? Charting the phases of the FDA's decline lays bare the responsibility borne by movement conservatism. The 100th anniversary of the FDA marks a milestone in medicine before which cranks and charlatans ran amok. A review of Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History. All evidence points to a mandate being the best strategy for achieving universal health care — why's Barack Obama fighting it? Take a chill pill: Henry Aaron on why everyone squabbling over the candidates' health care plans needs to take a deep breath and get some perspective. A review of Political Economy of Health Care: A Clinical Perspective by Julian Tudor Hart. A review of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee. From Discover, an article on the perfect storm of health risk: In some situations, rare illnesses become downright probable. Why don't we get cancer all the time? The seemingly inefficient way our bodies replace worn-out cells is a defense against cancer. Thank you for smoking: While Washington is encouraging Americans to quit, it has been helping big tobacco push cigarette smoking in other countries.
