Can some breast cancers just go away?

The FDA's got dermal fillers "under their skin"

Lady GaGa - as performed by Christopher Walken
Whimsy post today! No groaning over politics and mediceine (I promise).Actor, Christopher Walken has such a terrific deadpan that I could listen to him read the phonebook and laugh. He made a classic star turn on the BBC's 'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross' this past weekend, where he killed the audience with a dramatic reading of Lady GaGa's disco ditty, 'Poker Face'

Swimming with the sharks - Democrats once again sell out on malpractice reform
IF anyone doubted the how much the trial lawyers own the Democratic party, please check out this little present to the ambulance chasers tucked away in the 1900+ page healthcare reform billIn Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive p

Welcome to the return of the weregild - your life on the healthcare balance sheet
You may not remember it much, but most of those of us who were forced to endure studying the epic poem, Beowulf were introduced to the concept of the weregild. In the 2007 CGI adaptation of Beowulf, apparently the

Fallout from NJ Democrat meddling at the FDA will hold up medical device approval. Thank you very mu
Thanks to the intervention of 4 New Jersey Democrats in the FDA approval process for one of their constituents, all medical devices are on the sloooooow track for approval. An editorial in the New York Times summarizes this nicely

Behind the (1 in ) eight ball: More breast cancer patients choosing prophylactic mastectomy
The AP wire is reporting that the number of women opting for surgery to remove the healthy breast after a cancer diagnosis in one breast is rising, despite a lack of evidence that the surgery can improve survival. Sometimes this is presented as controversial, but I think this represents rationale behavior by m