Jane M. Orient

• 03/25/2013

  Medicaid Expansion: Déjà Vu All Over Again

  Republican governors are following the script of Obama and Clinton in their campaign strategy for the Medicaid expansion that is needed to implement ObamaCare: The cast of earnest white coats and tearful upstanding, hard-working patients with hard-luck stories. Statements that sound as though they were written by the same PR firm. The same dire consequences of inaction.

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• 03/06/2013

  Why Aggressive Breast Cancer in Young Women? Think Hormones

  But since the Sexual Revolution, young women in huge numbers have taken higher doses of hormones than their menopausal sisters—in birth control pills. In 2005, the World Health Organization classified oral contraceptives as class-1 carcinogens, one of only about 100 substances found to be "carcinogenic in humans."

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• 01/13/2011

  There is More to the Story of The Tucson Shootings

  The shooter, like everybody else these days, exists in a sea of messages that glorify and sensationalize violence