MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'burdens'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:39 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4300538&cid=t_149876_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FragwRUADhy8%2F By David RittgersThat’s the only message I can take away from the ATF proposal to require Federal Firearm License (FFL) holders to report the sale of two or more semiautomatic rifles that accept detachable magazines in states along the border with Mexico. In other words, this is gun control for the sake of Mexico. Thing is, the proposal breaks the law. The ATF doesn’t have the authority to do this. As David Hardy notes at Of Arms & the Law: There are several violations of the Gun Control Act, as amended by the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act. First, 18 USC §926(b) provides “The Attorney General shall give not less than ninety days public notice, and shall afford interested parties opportunity for hearing, before prescribing such rules and regulations.” This is str... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4300538 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:12:40 +0100 4300538 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4207281&cid=t_149876_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fx-O6LxE-TaI%2F By Walter OlsonLast week the New York Times reported on the story of Estrella Family Creamery, an award-winning, very-small-scale producer of raw milk farmstead cheeses in Montesano, Wash. The family faces a Food and Drug Administration ban on its products because the food pathogen listeria has been found in its facilities; when it expressed defiance, the FDA proceeded to stage a raid to seize its entire cheese stock. It’s not easy to sort out how large a health risk may be involved (listeria, a widely disseminated form of bacteria, poses a real danger of food poisoning, but no actual illness has been traced to Estrella cheese). I was struck, in any event, by these paragraphs from the Times account: “If the F.D.A. wanted to shut down the U.S. artisan cheese industry, all they’d ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4207281 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:29:39 +0100 4207281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3993868&cid=t_149876_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fr64jPEjWV48%2F By Walter OlsonThat’s not just my view; that’s the view of writer Barry Estabrook, an ardent critic of the food industry (“Politics of the Plate“), writing at The Atlantic. You needn’t go along completely with Estabrook’s dim view of industrialized agriculture to realize he’s right in one of his central contentions: “the proposed rules would disproportionately impose costs upon” small producers, including traditional, low-tech and organic farmers and foodmakers selling to neighbors and local markets. Even those with flawless safety records or selling low-risk types of foodstuff could be capsized by new paperwork and regulatory burdens that larger operations will be able to absorb as a cost of doing business. (Earlier here and here.) Thi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3993868 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:37:46 +0100 3993868 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3762956&cid=t_149876_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F07%2F17%2F3-tips-for-staying-together-with-children%2F Awhile back my friend Michelle said to the congregation at her husband’s funeral service: “He never spoke an unkind word to me.” Another girlfriend and I looked at each other, jaws dropped. And then she whispered, “They didn’t have kids.” We nodded and felt better about ourselves. But a growing body of research confirms our suspicions. Says Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times: “One of the more uncomfortable findings of the scientific study of marriage is the negative effect children can have on previously happy relationships. Despite the popular notion that children bring couples closer, several studies have shown that marital satisfaction and happiness typically plummet with the arrival of the first baby.” Why the shift? Stress, of cours... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3762956 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:11:51 +0100 3762956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416802&cid=t_149876_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1c3gTc551gg%2F Steve Moore and Art Laffer have an excellent column in today’s Wall Street Journal. They explain that high-tax states drive repel entrepreneurs and investors, leading to a pronounced Laffer Curve effect. Productive people either leave the state or choose to earn and report less taxable income. And because growth is weaker than in low-tax states, there also is a negative impact on lower-income and middle-class people: Here’s the problem for states that want to pry more money out of the wallets of rich people. It never works because people, investment capital and businesses are mobile: They can leave tax-unfriendly states and move to tax-friendly states. …Updating some research from Richard Vedder of Ohio University, we found that from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416802 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:17 +0100 2416802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2210434&cid=t_149876_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F02%2F24%2Fsuicide-when-it-hurts-too-much-to-live%2F What happens when it hurts too much to live? Can it really be too painful to live one more moment with emptiness, depression, and despair? Yes, for some people suicide seems like the only way out. Not every person who contemplates killing themselves is truly interested in ending their time on earth. For many, suicidal thoughts are about escape — musing about the idea of leaving the bonds that bind them to other people, responsibilities to burdens, and the despair of what they can’t change. If they could just escape it, maybe they still could go on somehow. Not right now, but after a while. They just need to get away from it. Suicidal thoughts and actions are also sometimes paired with strong impulses and low inhibitions. This can happen with drugs and alcohol, bipolar disorder... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2210434 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:49:45 +0100 2210434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=925479&cid=t_149876_134_f&fid=36049&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FDiabetesNotes%2F%7E3%2F164962449%2F Would you be willing to give up 8 years of your life to do away with your diabetes regimen? Do you feel like your medications and treatments are an enormous burden? If your answers are yes… and yes, then you are not alone. A group of researchers conducted face to face interviews with over 700 type 2 diabetics and found that they equate their diabetes with kidney disease and angina. Many diabetics say the burden of constant therapeutic vigilance and daily insulin injections have as much impact on their lives as complications. And over 10% of the patients polled were willing to give up 8-10 years of their lives to live without these everyday burdens. Wow! How do you feel about this? Would you be willing to give up the final decade of your life to live without prescription bottles and ... Diabetes Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=925479 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:54:40 +0100 925479