If they would rather die, they had better be about it, and decrease the surplus population. Ebenezer Scrooge
This page contains links only from 2004 or earlier.
General News and Commentary
- FDA Told Its Analyst to Censor Data on Antidepressants
Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post, 24 September 2004
- Lawmaker Says F.D.A. Held Back Drug Data to Benefit Manufacturers
Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 10 September 2004
- Jesus and the FDA
Karen Tumulty, Time, 5 October 2002
- F.D.A. Considers New Tests for Environmental Effects
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 14 March 2002
- Bills Seek to Restore Power for Federal Salmonella Tests
New York Times, 15 March 2002
- Medical Expertise Meets Politics
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 23 February 2002
- Bush Urges $300 Billion for Health Care Changes
Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 12 February 2002
- Party Battles Looming Over Health Care
Robin Toner, New York Times, 11 January 2002
Bioethics
- A 'Full Range' of Bioethical Views Just Got Narrower
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Washington Post, 7 March 2004
- The political manipulation of Bush's bioethics council
William Saletan, Slate, 16 July 2002
- Playing God
Scott Anderson, Salon, 18 June 2002
- Total Ban on Cloning Research Appears Dead
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 14 June 2002
- Zygotes and People Aren't Quite the Same
Michael S. Gazzaniga, New York Times, 25 April 2002
- Bush Acts to Drop Core Privacy Rule on Medical Data
Robert Pear, New York Times, 22 March 2002
- Panel Urges U.S. to Tighten Approval of Gene-Altered Crops
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 22 February 2002
AIDS
- U.S. refuses to intervene in AIDS drug's price hike
Associated Press (in MSNBC), 5 August 2004
- Anger at US ban on Aids scientists
Sarah Boseley, The Guardian, 12 July 2004
- No Time to Get Squeamish
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, 9 May 2003
- Aids fear as Bush blocks sex lessons
Gaby Hinsliff, Observer (UK), 5 May 2002
- AIDS Fund Falls Short of Goal and U.S. Is Given Some Blame
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 13 February 2002
- Bush sides with drug companies, against poor and sick, on world AIDS drug pricing policy
Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 20 July 2001
- US drops Brazil AIDS drugs case
BBC, 25 June 2001
- Refusing to Save Africans
Bob Herbert, New York Times, 11 June 2001
- AIDS and George W. Bush
Stephen Morin, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2001
- Powell, in South Africa, Finesses the AIDS Issue
Marc Lacey, New York Times, 25 May 2001
- Brazil's AIDS Chief Denounces Bush Position on Drug Patents
Barbara Crossette, New York Times, 3 May 2001
- Bush and AIDS
Anthony Lewis, New York Times, 3 February 2001
Anthrax
- The Anthrax Files
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times (in Truthout), 12 July 2002
- Anthrax case homes in on unusual suspect
Faye Bowers, Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2002
- Anthrax?
The F.B.I. Yawns
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, 2 July 2002
- Anthrax in Mail Was Newly Made, Investigators Say
David Johnston and William J. Broad, New York Times, 22 June 2002
- Critic of FBI investigation testifies to Congress
Anthony York, Salon (full article available to subscribers only), 21 June 2002
- Antibiotics Found to Have Helped Limit Anthrax Infections
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 8 March 2002
- US bio-defence security lax
Stephen Sackur, BBC, 1 March 2002
- Labs Are Sent Subpoenas for Samples of Anthrax
William J. Broad, New York Times, 27 February 2002
- Is a U.S. bioweapons scientist behind last fall's anthrax attacks?
Laura Rozen, Salon (full article available to subscribers only), 8 February 2002
- One Anthrax Answer: Ames Strain Not From Iowa
Joby Warrick, Washington Post (in Truthout), 29 January 2002
- In Offering Anthrax Vaccine, Officials Admit to Unknowns
Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., New York Times, 25 December 2001
- Tracking Bioterror's Tangled Course
Eric Lipton and Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 26 December 2001
- F.B.I. Queries Expert Who Sees Federal Lab Tie in Anthrax Cases
William J. Broad, New York Times, 14 December 2001
- U.S. Recently Produced Anthrax in a Highly Lethal Powder Form
William J. Broad and Judith Miller, New York Times, 13 December 2001
- Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S.
William J. Broad, New York Times, 3 November 2001
- Genome Offers 'Fingerprint' for Anthrax
William J. Broad, New York Times, 28 November 2001
- Fugitive abortion foe: I sent anthrax threats
Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 25 November 2001
- Experts See F.B.I. Missteps Hampering Anthrax Inquiry
New York Times, 9 November 2001
- Source of anthrax attacks may be U.S. rightwing extremists
Liz Marlantes, Christian Science Monitor, 5 November 2001
- Anthrax preparation indicates home-grown origin
Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, 29 October 2001
- Authorities Discover How Little They Know About Anthrax
Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 October 2001
- U.S. Moves Toward Making Anthrax Vaccine Available
Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 28 October 2001
- Anthrax 'could have US source'
BBC, 26 October 2001
- Anthrax Probe Shifts To Homegrown Hate Groups
Murray Weiss, New York Post (in CommonDreams), 25 October 2001
Drugs and Addiction
- After Two-Decade Halt, Marijuana Research Is Set
Philip J. Hilts, New York Times, 15 December 2001
- Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups
Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, 8 September 2001
- New Drug Plan Shifts Focus in Latin America
Christopher Marquis, New York Times, 17 May 2001
- Bush Names a Drug Czar and Addresses Criticism
David E. Sanger, New York Times, 11 May 2001
- How Will Bush's Pick for Drug Czar Affect U.S. Policy?
Jessica Reaves and Elaine Shannon, Time, 10 May 2001
- Bush names "lock-em-up" advocate to top drug post
Associated Press (in USA Today), 10 May 2001
Gun Control
Insurance and the Uninsured
- Words, Actions at Odds on Children's Health Care
Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, 25 September 2004
- Number of uninsured increased drastically between 2002 and 2004
William Welch, USA Today, 15 June 2004
- If Ashcroft Were Uninsured...
Dan Frosch, AlterNet, 14 March 2004
- New Medicare bill may lead to increase in workers' share of health care costs
Julie Appleby, USA Today, 1 December 2003
- For Middle Class, Health Insurance Becomes a Luxury
Stephanie Strom, New York Times, 16 November 2003
- Big Increase Seen in People Lacking Health Insurance
Robert Pear, New York Times, 30 September 2003
- Under New Bush Rule, Emergency Rooms May No Longer Be Required to Treat Patients
Robert Pear, New York Times, 2 September 2003
- After declining in 1999 and 2000, number of uninsured rises in2001
Robert Pear, New York Times, 30 September 2002
- Budget Would Cut Medicaid Payments
Robert Pear, New York Times, 2 February 2002
- A Stubborn Fight Revived
Robin Toner, New York Times, 20 December 2001
- Talks in Congress Break Down Over Health Benefit for Jobless
Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 19 December 2001
- Workers Paying Bigger Part of Their Health Care Costs
Milt Freudenheim, New York Times, 10 December 2001
- More Women Are Losing Insurance Than Men
Tamar Lewin, New York Times, 31 August 2001
- Senate Takes Small Step Toward Health Coverage for Uninsured
Adam Clymer, New York Times, 8 April 2001
- Bush Budget on Health Care Would Cut Aid to Uninsured
Robert Pear, New York Times, 4 April 2001
Medicare and Medicaid
- Bush Illegally Permitted Health Plans to Limit Medicare Choices
Robert Pear, New York Times, 28 September 2004
- 73 Options for Medicare Plan Fuel Chaos, Not Prescriptions
John Leland, New York Times, 12 May 2004
- Medicare Chief Broke Law
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 19 March 2004
- Bush Administration Knew 'Medicare Reform' Cost Would Be Higher Than Estimate
Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 31 January 2004
- Congress OKs Sweeping Overhaul of Medicare
James Gerstenzang, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 25 November 2003
- Rising Costs Prompt States to Reduce Medicaid Further
Robert Pear, New York Times, 23 September 2003
- Doubts Are Emerging as Bush Pushes His Medicare Plan
Robert Pear with Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 30 January 2003
- Government Proposing Cuts in Many Medicare Payments
Robert Pear, New York Times, 23 September 2002
- Wealth Versus Health
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 19 April 2002
- Bad Medicine
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 19 March 2002
- Bush Budget's Low Growth Rate for Medicare Is Questioned by Lawmakers
Robert Pear, New York Times, 6 February 2002
- Prospects Dim for Medicare Drug Benefit
Robin Toner, New York Times, 5 November 2001
- The Conflict Over Drug Benefits
Robin Toner, New York Times, 5 August 2001
- Rival Medicare Drug Plans Are Both Ruled Affordable
Robert Pear, New York Times, 9 June 2001
- A Broad Alliance Tries to Head Off Cuts in Medicare
Raymond Hernandez, New York Times, 14 May 2001
- Bush campaign adviser removed from Medicare panel because of conflict of interest
Robert Pear, New York Times, 14 May 2001
- Lobbyist for Hospital Industry Is Likely to Lead Medicare and Medicaid
Robert Pear, New York Times, 3 March 2001
Mental Health
Patients' Rights
- In a Shift, Bush Moves to Block Medical Suits
Robert Pear, New York Times, 25 July 2004
- Medicare Law Hurts Cancer Patients
Rob Stein, Washington Post, 14 February 2004
- Bush Rolls Back Rules on Privacy of Medical Data
Robert Pear, New York Times, 9 August 2002
- Bush's band-aid approach
Fran Smith, Salon, 2 May 2002
- Democrats Say Bush Revisions Ruin Medical Privacy Rules
Robert Pear, New York Times, 17 April 2002
- How Patients' Rights Became a Fight
Marion Berry, New York Times, 1 September 2001
- Measure Defining Patients' Rights as Less than HMOs' Passes House
Robert Pear, New York Times, 3 August 2001
- Patients' rights double cross
Jake Tapper, Salon, 2 August 2001
- Norwood rejects Congressional allies, accepts Bush's dilution of patients' rights bill
Robert Pear, New York Times, 2 August 2001
- Lawmakers Rebuff Bush on Patients' Rights
Robert Pear, New York Times, 28 July 2001
- Bush Gives on Patients Bill, but Democrats Want More
Robert Pear, New York Times, 27 July 2001
- Rough Ride in House: G.O.P. Hustles on Patients' Rights
Alison Mitchell, New York Times, 27 July 2001
- Will the GOP scuttle the patients' bill of rights, too?
Jake Tapper, Salon, 24 July 2001
- Republicans Seek Votes Against Bipartisan Patients' Rights Bill
Alison Mitchell and Robert Pear, New York Times, 24 July 2001
- How Bush Lost the GOP on Health Care
Douglas Waller, Time, 2 July 2001
- After Patients' Rights, Vast Needs and Higher Hurdles
Robin Toner, New York Times, 2 July 2001
- Senators
Compromise on Liability Limits in Patients' Right to Sue
Robert
Pear, New York Times, 28 June 2001
- Patients'
Rights Pick Up Momentum in 2 Senate Votes
Robert Pear, New York Times, 27 June 2001
- Bush Demands Senate Changes on Patient Bill
Robert Pear and Robin Toner, New York Times, 22 June 2001
- Senate Considers Patients' Rights in Test With Bush
Alison Mitchell and Robert Pear, New York Times, 17 June 2001
- House G.O.P. Rushes to Get a "Bush-Friendly" Rights Bill Before Dem Version Passes in Senate
Robert Pear, New York Times, 15 June 2001
- Health showdown looms on Capitol Hill
Jake Tapper, Salon, 13 June 2001
- Daschle predicts passage of patients' rights bill
Dana Bash, CNN, 13 June 2001
- More Americans prefer Democrat plan for patients bill of rights over Bush plan
Rea Blakey, CNN, 13 June 2001
- G.O.P. Congressman Norwood Will Support Democrats' Patients' Rights Bill
Alison Mitchell, New York Times, 13 June 2001
- Bipartisan Group of Senators Drafts a Patients' Rights Bill
Robert Pear, New York Times, 15 May 2001
- White House Plans to Revise New Medical Privacy Rules
Robert Pear, New York Times, 8 April 2001
- Bush Set to Back State Laws to Extend H.M.O. Patients' Rights
Robert Pear, New York Times, 14 January 2001
Prescription Drugs
- Some Experts Foresee Revolt by Elderly Over Drug Benefits
Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 26 November 2003
- Experts Wary of G.O.P. Drug Plan
Robert Pear, New York Times, 16 June 2002
- Drug Plans for Elderly Are Unveiled by 2 Parties
Robert Pear, New York Times, 2 May 2002
- Medicare Proposal Urges Incentives for Generic Drugs
Robert Pear, New York Times, 6 March 2002
- Democrats: Bush broke prescription promise
CNN, 2 March 2002
- Bush Offers New Drug Plan Similar to One Court Barred
Robert Pear, New York Times, 1 March 2002
- Both Parties Call Bush's Proposed Prescription Benefit Plan Inadequate
Robert Pear and Robin Toner, New York Times, 29 January 2002
- Drug Discount Cards Give the Elderly Small Savings
Robert Pear, New York Times, 5 January 2002
- Bush Drug Plan Calls for Using Retail Discount Cards
Robert Pear, New York Times, 11 July 2001
Reproductive Rights
- Also see
Global "gag rule" (separate page).
- Abortion Foe to Be Reappointed to FDA Panel
Marc Kaufman, Washington Post, 29 June 2004
- US stance on condoms slammed
Caroline Hooper-Box, Sunday Tribune, 30 May 2004
- A catastrophe for the conservatives: abstinence education leads to pregnancy
Sydney Morning Herald, 14 May 2004
- Morning-After-Pill Ruling Defies Norm
Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 8 May 2004
- How George Bush will ban abortion
Michelle Goldberg, Salon, 12 November 2003
- Abortion Issue Holds Up Bill on Bankruptcy
Philip Shenon, New York Times reg, 30 April 2002
- It Was Improper for DoJ to File Amicus Brief Supporting Law Banning "Partial-Birth" Abortion
Trevor Morrison, Esq., FindLaw's Writ, 14 February 2002
- Anti-Abortion Terrorism Threatens All Americans
Frederick Clarkson, CommonDreams, 13 February 2002
- Sneak Attack on Abortion Rights
Bob Herbert, New York Times, 4 February 2002
- Afghan Women Get Caught in U.S. Abortion Politics
Marie Cocco, Newsday (in CommonDreams), 23 January 2002
- U.N. Officials Press White House to Free Family-Planning Money
Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 16 January 2002
- Stealth Pro-Life Campaign Erodes Reproductive Rights
Sharon Lerner, Village Voice, 26 December 2001
- Senators Urge Bush to Back Family Planning Proposals
Raymond Hernandez, New York Times, 29 July 2001
- Alarm as Bush plans to declare fetuses "unborn children"
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 7 July 2001
- For Bush, Abortion Gag Rule is Only the Beginning
Robyn Blumner, St. Petersburg Times (in CommonDreams), 1 July 2001
- High noon for the morning-after pill
Janelle Brown, Salon, 21 June 2001
Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education
- Experts in Sex Field Say Conservatives Interfere With Health and Research
Mireya Navarro, New York Times, 11 July 2004
- Critics Say Government Deleted Web Site Material to Push Abstinence
Adam Clymer, New York Times, 25 November 2002
- Abstinence-Only Initiative Advanced by White House Funding Priorities
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 28 February 2002
- "Just Say No" Abstinence Education Spreading in Spite of Absence of Results
Zoe Williams, Guardian (UK), 20 October 2001
- An Advocate for the Sexual Health of the Nation's Youth
Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 20 August 2001
- Sex-Education Program Finds Success in Reducing Teenage Pregnancy
Tamar Lewin, New York Times, 30 May 2001
Stem Cell Research
- Approved Stem Cells' Potential Questioned
Rick Weiss, Washington Post, 29 October 2004
- National Academy of Science Recommendations on Stem Cell Research
New York Times, 11 September 2001
- $2.2 Million for Parkinson's Research from Michael J. Fox Foundation
New York Times, 7 September 2001
- Stem Cells: Bush's Fuzzy Science?
Karen Tumulty and James Carney, Time, 4 September 2001
- List of Stem Cell Researchers Shows Hands Had Been Tied
Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 28 August 2001
- What Only the Embryo Knows
Stephen Jay Gould, New York Times, 27 August 2001
- U.S. Approves Labs With Stem Cells for Federal Use
Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 27 August 2001
- Worried Scientists Are Told Ample Stem Cell Lines Exist
Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 25 August 2001
- Embryos in Fertility Labs Not Available for Research
Gina Kolata, New York Times, 26 August 2001
- The "Genius" of Bush's Stem Cell Decision
Frank Rich, New York Times, 18 August 2001
- Bush's Stem Cell Policy May Streamline Research
Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 18 August 2001
- Patent Laws May Determine Shape of Stem Cell Research
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 17 August 2001
- Scientists Divided on Limit of Federal Stem Cell Money
Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 16 August 2001
- Bush Says He Will Veto Any Bill Broadening His Stem Cell Policy
Frank Bruni, New York Times, 14 August 2001
- Abortion Foes Split Over Bush's Plan on Stem Cells
Laurie Goodstein, New York Times, 12 August 2001
- Bush's stem-cell fumble
Scott Rosenberg, Salon, 10 August 2001
- Bush limits federal funding of stem-cell research
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 10 August 2001
- 170 House members urge Bush to approve stem cell research
Kathy Kiely and Mimi Hall, USA Today, 27 July 2001
- Stem-cell decision will define Bush's true agenda
Frank Bruni, New York Times, 14 July 2001
- Bush baulks at playing God
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 10 July 2001
- Bush Weighs Stem Cell Decision Amid Reminders of Suffering
Frank Bruni, New York Times, 8 July 2001
- Bush Aides Seek Compromise on Embryonic Cell Research
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 4 July 2001
- Bush can show his compassion by not blocking funds for stem cell research
Marianne Means, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3 July 2001
- U.S. Study Hails Stem Cells' Promise
Robert Pear, New York Times, 27 June 2001
- Bush leans against support for stem-cell research in spite of evidence in favor of it
David E. Sanger, New York Times, 22 June 2001
- Several G.O.P. Senators Back Money for Stem Cell Research
Robert Pear, New York Times, 19 June 2001
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