A review of costs in the Pharmaceutical industry for comparison between research and ‘marketing and administration’ budgets was done for 2004. Posts on the issue have argued the point. A quick review of this source looked reasonable, but needs a more careful study. There are better minds to do this than I, but offer the […]

The GAO reports on the inability to measure small amounts of toxins in the Great Lakes that can cause harm. The same is true, as described in other posts, for unborns and babies. Is this a worthy function of government to oversee, water and babies being crucial also to us? How would a free market […]

In this mornings New York Times Bruce Bartlett published a nice list of anti recession measures by Congress and makes the point that they are always too late. However, if you read the list of 14 different measures he list you find that 12 of them are for public works programs and he is completely […]

Bruce Bartlet of The NYC gives us this perspective on rescue plans. The history of anti-recession efforts is that they are almost always initiated too late to do any good. This chart, based on recession timelines from the National Bureau of Economic Research, shows the enactment of stimulus plans is a fairly accurate indicator that […]

This article states state of the art research for propranolol for PTSD. At this point in the research, though, it’s too early to tell how well beta blockers might work even as a therapeutic aid, Altemus said. “There were two small studies that have already been done using propranolol for PTSD, where they treated people […]

Martin Luther King Day organization asks for action, not vacation and a three day weekend. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sought to forge the common ground on which people from all walks of life could join together to address important community issues. On January 21st, 2008, millions of Americans across the country will once again […]

I love the articles we are now seeing that the 2001 tax cut did not work. But look at what happened to real retail sales right after the 2001 tax rebates were implemented. The US experienced a very large surge in real retail sales that werenot adequately explained by the usual factors. ( see the […]

This article found on comcast.net from AP describes a growing problem. For as long as the United States has sent its young men – and later its young women – off to war, it has watched as a segment of them come home and lose the battle with their own memories, their own scars, and […]

I spent the weekend babysitting a grandchild. But I was reminded that at the end Goldilockswas run out of the forest by the three bears.

Treatment of PTSD 2008 is a comprehensive meta-analysis of studies done for the government on treatments for PTSD. I will have some follow through later this week. The 212 page document is one of the more throrough I have seen, so I mention this for any readers who have time and are curious. No surprises […]