The unseen battle: America ’ s veterans and the crisis of chronic pain
Since the Civil War, there have been seventy-four wars and conflicts America has fought in. But as bad as previous wars had been, there has never been anything in American history like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While America’s direct intervention against Germany and Japan lasted less than five years, the war on terror went
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The unseen battle: America’s veterans and the crisis of chronic pain originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Meds Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Bloody Religion
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“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of th...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
Bloody Religion
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of the emails that she ...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
I feel I must belabor the obvious. Yes, it's a cult.
For most of my life, the Republican party has promoted itself as the true patriots, the people who " support the troops, " will aggressively confront foreign adversaries, and spend trillions of dollars for what they define as a " strong " national defense. They also purport to be the competent party, the " grownups in the room. " Now, quite suddenly it seems, they worship and adore a demented idiot who disparages and disdains the military and wants to bow down to the nation ' s most dangerous adversary.General Kelly, who served as white house chief of staff, has recently granted an interview to CNN. A person tha...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Five alarms
The U.S. corporate media have extensively covered the Maui wildfire, they have mentioned the fires in the Northwest Territories and particularly Yellowknife, but there are immense fires burning all around the northern hemisphere that they barely mention. That they areignoring the fires in British Columbia seems particularly strange, since the province borders the U.S. and areas of large population are threatened. There is also amassive fire on Tenerife, andfires on the Spanish mainland.The earth has changed, and the change is building on itself and accelerating. We can ' t stop it but we absolutely must slow it down,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
An alarming rise in military suicides: Unveiling hidden crisis and urgent need for action
During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, suicides among active-duty troops were frequently reported. Since then, news reports have subsided but the suicides have not. In fact, a 2022 report from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office revealed that there were more suicides in 2021 than any other year since the September 11 attacks. According to Army
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An alarming rise in military suicides: Unveiling hidden crisis and urgent need for action originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Martha Rosenberg Tags: Policy Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
The Ripples of War Are Only Beginning to Spread. Is America Ready?
There are now more than 1.9 million U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 50,000 were physically injured and around 15 percent have experienced PTSD. Perhaps all were exposed to burn pits and other toxins. What are the long-term impacts of the wars on those who fought them? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 23, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Kayla M. Williams Source Type: blogs
Twenty Years After the Iraq War, a Q & A with RAND Experts
On the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, RAND experts discussed what the war means for the people of Iraq and the veterans who fought there, what lessons the U.S. military learned (or did not learn), and what effect it has had on the balance of power in the Middle East and the global reputation of the United States. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Michelle Gris é ; Michael J. Mazarr; Charles P. Ries; Kayla M. Williams; Jonathan P. Wong; Raphael S. Cohen Source Type: blogs
Platinum Anniversary
As some readers know, for many years I maintained the Today in Iraq blog, during the U.S. occupation. The invasion of Iraq was an illegal war of aggression, and U.S. troops and mercenaries committed innumerable war crimes. The result was an indescribable catastrophe for Iraqis, with a conservative death toll estimate of 800,000 and most likely far higher, at least as many people injured, and entire cities destroyed. (Notably Fallujah and Mosul.) The consequences for the U.S. were not as dire, but $8 trillion wasted and immense damage to the nation ' s international standing, along with 4,400 military dead and 32,000 w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Iraq War, 20 Years Later
John MuellerOn Thursday, March 16, we reach the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Saddam Hussein ’s Iraq under the George W. Bush administration. There will be an afternoon ofpanels on that day at Cato reflecting on the event.As the invasion loomed, there was quite a bit of protest both in the United States and around the globe, and a popular placard at some of the protests was one reading, “A village in Texas is missing its idiot.”In his impressive newbook,Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press), historian Melvyn Leffler takes strong exception to that...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
SCOTUS Tackles Unconstitutional, and Unwise, Student Loan Cancelation
Clark Neily andNeal McCluskeyWhen President Bidenannounced that he would unilaterally cancel up to $20,000 of federal student debt for almost everyone holding any, he may have thought his action unstoppable. No one, he might have concluded, would have standing in court to block him. But the legal sailing hasn ’t been so smooth, with two courts finding that the plaintiffs had standing, and the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear their cases tomorrow. If the Supreme Court agrees that the plaintiffs have standing, Biden’s declaration is in big trouble, because it’s clearly unconstitutional.It ’s also terrible policy.Biden ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily, Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Give Him a Hand – No, Really
BY KIM BELLARD
When I read The Washington Post article about how a Tennessee high school student’s engineering class built him a prosthetic hand, my immediate reaction, of course, was to be touched, but my bigger reaction was, wait – high school students can now create prosthetics?
If you haven’t been paying attention, the world of prosthetics has been changing in amazing ways, and it’s not done.
The student, Sergio Peralta, was born with his right hand not fully formed, and for much of his life it was a problem. As he wrote in his own account in Newsweek: “When I got bullied at my old scho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard LIMBER Prosthetic hands Robot Arms Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Student‐Debt Forgiveness Plan Is Illegal
Thomas A. BerryIn 2003, Congress enacted theHEROES Act ( “HEROES” stands for Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students). As implied by its name and timing, the law was enacted as a reaction to the Iraq War. Several of thefloor statements from members of Congress reveal that a primary motivation for the Act was to ensure that military members could have their student loan payments deferred while serving their country.Now, the Biden administration is attempting to use the HEROES Act to achieve a policy goal that is far different, and far more sweeping, than anything the law has been used for in th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
