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» Health Care Report - This site, in data graphic form, shows U.S. live expectancy trends and health care spending compared to other nations, raising challenging questions today and looking forward.

» Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Debate Over Resources - International human-rights standards can help point a useful direction while we prepare ourseleves to face a new public-health challenge that has come to the fore in the fight against AIDS.

» Infostat, Cargo-Cult Science and the Policy Sausage-machine - Paper on the managerial takeover of clinical practice, and how the process of medical science is distorted by politics and dubious trendy theories.

» Medical Malpractice lawsuits - Legal Information on medical malpractice lawsuits.

» No Caps On Non-Economic Medical Malpractice Awards - Facts sheets explaining attempts to legitimize negligent or incompetent conduct by health care providers.

» Not Another Generation Exposed To Asbestos - An examination of asbestos, its effects on the human body, the state of mesothelioma treatments, and pending legislation on asbestos issues.

» Public Health and Personal Freedom - Argues that more emphasis should be given to personal freedom over public health, using the example of alcohol.

» Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist." (December 17, 1998)

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