July 2, 2008
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Using as examples the role of salt in combatting lymphatic filariasis and iodine deficiency, the cover story of the June issue of Geotimes devoted six pages to "Salt of the Earth: the pubilc health community employs a mineral to...
June 20, 2008
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Health and nutrition activists are attempting to demonize all science not funded by (friendly) government bureaucrats. This leads, inevitably and quickly, to politically-correct junk science. A related theme is voiced in an op ed piece from earlier this week in the...
June 13, 2008
Written by: Dick Hanneman
When it comes to fixing our nation's health care system, health outcomes are what matters. Except to the news media. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just issued the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Its...
May 30, 2008
Written by: Dick Hanneman
For the past two years, more than 50 economists under the aegis of the Copenhagen Consensus have been studying the 30 most promising public health interventions to help policy-makers prioritize public health investments. They filed their report today and issued...
May 28, 2008
Written by: Dick Hanneman
You've probably read press accounts of the attack on environmentalists levied by Czech president Vaclav Klaus at his National Press Club news conference yesterday. Klaus, a renowned economist who has erected a thriving market economy on the ashes of his...
