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Is health care reform unconstitutional?
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Aziz Poonawalla
Today, the President signed health reform into law. This is an incredible, historic achievement. And it was done entirely without the help of the obstructionists of the GOP, who decided that it was more important to humiliate President Obama than to work with him to try and address the nation’s desperate need for genuine reform.…
Signing health reform into law
By
Aziz Poonawalla
And there it is – officially the law of the land: Television networks actually broke their daytime coverage to show the historic signing. Vice President Biden is reputed to have added, “This is a big f$%king deal” – seriously! (no s^!t, Joe.) There was a moment yesterday of well-deserved recognition for Speaker Pelosi, who has…
Do doctors oppose health care reform?
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Aziz Poonawalla
Conservative opponents to health reform have been pushing a recent poll ostenibly conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine which claims that doctors are indeed opposed to health reform. This even got play on Fox News by Bill O’Reilly a couple days ago: This seems to contradict an earlier poll by NEJM that found…
Lancet retracts vaccine/autism study
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is great news for public health – esteemed medical journal The Lancet has formally retracted a contentious 1998 paper that asserted a link between vaccines and autism: The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between autism and the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and…
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