Health Care

Higher potency statins linked to much higher risk of diabetes. That means high cholesterol is probably linked to higher risk of diabetes, and the statins mask the symptoms, making the patient sicker.

Monsanto unhappy with Vermont's GMO labeling law. If the law survives Monsanto's challenge, Big Ag will just co-opt the law and turn it to their benefit.

Hospitals increase charges to Medicare faster than official inflation.

Obamacare was supposed to reduce the number of Americans who used emergency rooms for health care, but Obamacare increased that number instead.

"Nationally, nearly half of ER doctors responding to a recent poll by the American College of Emergency Physicians said they've seen more visits since Jan. 1, and nearly nine in 10 expect those visits to rise in the next three years. Mike Rust, president of the Kentucky Hospital Association, said members statewide describe the same trend."

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