What ails America’s health system depends on the diagnostician By Leigh E. Rich When it comes to health care, we can have our cake and eat it, too, third-party presidential candidates Ralph Nader and David Cobb claim. But, they say, we need different bakers. Both Nader and Cobb, running on the Reform and the Green […]
10.22.2004
10.22.2004
Computer-aided doctoring By Leigh E. Rich “I have the courage to run for the United States Senate,” Republican hopeful Pete Coors told a small envoy that toured Denver Health’s facilities in September, “largely because of Dr. and Sen. Frist.” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a heart surgeon and a Republican from Tennessee, joined Coors and […]
09.17.2004
Categories: Elections, Health, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on That’s not how the cookie crumbles, Dems say
Bush’s idea of health care is half-baked, they add By Leigh E. Rich Short of calling the Bush administration’s response to America’s growing health care crisis half-baked, Colorado Democrats held a mock bake sale Monday in front of Villa Manor Care Center, a Lakewood-based nursing home. But what looked like a small sidewalk effort amounted […]
07.09.2004
Categories: Health, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on ‘Tobacco Road’ detours through gold dome
Authors allege ‘smoking gun’ with tobacco industry report By Leigh E. Rich The ruckus created by the recent release of an American Lung Association of Colorado report detailing the tobacco industry’s political activities in the state since the 1980s gives new meaning to the quip about laws and sausages. But tobacco control advocates, including report […]
06.27.2003
Categories: Books, Health, History, Science, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Slow death of a monster
Arizona author documents historical battle By Leigh E. Rich The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox By Jennifer Lee Carrell Dutton June 2003 451 pages $24.95 Today, 23 years after the World Health Organization confirmed the worldwide eradication of smallpox, there are only two places one might bump into the Variola virus that […]
02.08.2002
An interdisciplinary romp with a professor of pathology By Leigh E. Rich Faith, Madness and Spontaneous Human Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception By Gerald N. Callahan, Ph.D. A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin’s Press January 2002 256 pages $23.95 Who came first, the pathologist or the poet? The world may never […]
01.17.2002
Aurarians do it with their heads on By Leigh E. Rich I haven’t dated. I’ve done research. Really, I make a lousy first date. And I wouldn’t know about the second and third as I am rarely invited back. Perhaps I should follow the advice of my cousin, who sternly admonishes me before I leave […]
05.18.2001
Article distorted pediatricians’ statement on children in war By Leigh E. Rich An article written by Tom Tugend of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (“60,000 US pediatricians oppose use of children in battle,” May 11, 2001, IJN) “does not accurately reflect” the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent statement reaffirming the UN Convention on the Rights of […]
