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Why the Bachmann clinic’s gay-curing therapy is the least of it

By Paul Scott | 07/20/11
Last week it was confirmed that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s family business, the “Christian counseling” center Bachmann & Associates, has encouraged gay patients to change their sexual orientation.
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The new Dietary Guidelines are coming -- should they even mention nutrients at all?

By Paul Scott | 09/17/10
Quietly last month, a pair of Harvard endocrinologists published a commentary in JAMA that suggested to the authors of forthcoming new dietary guidelines that they essentially throw out nutrition altogether and start talking about food.  (Unfortunat
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Unassisted smoking cessation works -- why don't we publicize that?

By Paul Scott | 03/05/10
Of all the interventions at our disposal in preventive medicine, there's likely no greater opportunity for reducing disease than for a physician to encourage a patient to quit smoking. After his physical last weekend, we learned that the president
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Legislator calls beefed-up bill ‘good-faith effort’ for mental health education

By Paul Scott | 03/04/10
Rep.
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Medtronic-induced 'pre-emption' concept takes another hit with ruling on depression suits

By Paul Scott | 03/03/10
Thirteen people died when the 35W bridge collapsed in August of 2007.
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Obama's physical, Part 2: The fascinating politics of virtual colonoscopy screening

By Paul Scott | 03/02/10
Yesterday's post looked at the issues relevant to health-care reform raised by the fact of the president's recent annual physical, starting with the act of getting an annual physical exam in the first place. The U.S.
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Obama's physical: Who decided an LDL of 138 is bad – or that an annual checkup is good?

By Paul Scott | 03/01/10
It can't be easy to be president. Your zone of privacy is so very small — and we want to know everything. Given that context, it seems obnoxious to stand in judgment of the president's having recently undergone a physical exam [PDF].
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Fitness Friday: When twisting, lead with your pelvis

By Paul Scott | 02/26/10
A couple of years ago I toured the research lab of Stuart McGill, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and a burly Scot who is widely recognized as the smartest man working when it comes to the science of
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To be effective, mental-health prevention bill needs more than 62 words

By Paul Scott | 02/25/10
This month, a bill was introduced in the Minnesota House that would require the development of a mental-health curriculum for middle and high schools. The bill, authored by Rep.
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On saturated fat and LDL cholesterol, messages may well be counterproductive

By Paul Scott | 02/24/10
Tomorrow's health-care summit may well devolve into bad theater, but one of the few areas of agreement at its start will be bipartisan support for employers and the government to get in on the promotion of prevention and wellness.  "Promoting bette