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 'hazard'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:05 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883558&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOQRfT8bXzW4%2F By Mark A. CalabriaOn July 8th, Sheila Bair will step down as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  While I believe she’s gotten a lot wrong (such as not preparing the fund for the coming crisis), she has been about the only voice among senior bank regulators for actually ending too-big-to-fail.  With her departure, we might lose that one voice.  Later this year, Kansas City Fed President Tom Hoenig is also scheduled to leave his current position. Hoenig has actually gone beyond Bair in trying to address too-big-to-fail, having called for the largest banks to be broken up.  While I don’t believe that should be our first approach, having an advocate for both the taxpayer and the overall economy at the helm of the FDIC could make a significant difference... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883558 Tue, 31 May 2011 16:09:00 +0100 4883558 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4003257&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnational-prescription-drug-take-back-day%2F2010.09.27 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) coordinat[ed] “National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day” this [past] Saturday [September 25th], encouraging people to turn in their unused prescription drugs. The agency hopes the event will help decrease rates of crime and addiction linked to prescription drug abuse, the New York Times reports. From the DEA press release: This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Many Americans are not aware that medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are increasing at alarming rates, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtain... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4003257 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0100 4003257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3504898&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoGlAdo6D2n8%2F By Daniel J. MitchellPrice fixing is illegal in the private sector, but unfortunately there are no rules against schemes by politicians to create oligopolies in order to prop up bad government policy. The latest example comes from the bureaucrats at the International Monetary Fund, who are conspiring with national governments to impose higher taxes and regulations on the banking sector. The pampered bureaucrats at the IMF (who get tax-free salaries while advocating higher taxes on the rest of us) say these policies are needed because of bailouts, yet such an approach would institutionalize moral hazard by exacerbating the government-created problem of “too big to fail.” But what is particularly disturbing about the latest IMF scheme is that the international bureaucracy wants ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3504898 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:31:50 +0100 3504898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298277&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fredesign-hot-dogs-to-reduce-choking%2F I’m going to have to add a subsection to the Duh Files called the “Are you freaking serious?” file, because just when you’re sure you’ve heard everything, something else surprises you. New on the list: there’s a call to redesign hot dogs so children won’t choke on them. To be fair, a child who is choking is a horrible, frightening thing and too many children do choke. Sadly, many parents and by-standers don’t know what to do because they’ve never learned first aid techniques. But we have gotten better about passing regulations as to how small children’s toys can be, how parts can’t break off, and so on. According to a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatricians, -At least one child dies from choking on ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298277 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:35:43 +0100 3298277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3163756&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfwSfET6L-J4%2F By Daniel J. MitchellKudos to Nicki Kurokawa, a former Cato employee, for this short but substantive video explaining “moral hazard.” She notes that government-subsidized risk played a pernicious role in the housing bubble and financial crisis, and warns that “too big to fail” may create similar problems in the future. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3163756 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:37:01 +0100 3163756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044710&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fdrink-can-tabs-choking-hazard-for-teens%2F I’m not quite sure where this would fit, after all, we’d like to think that people should know better. Baby boomers and older people may remember the pull tabs on drink cans. We used to pick up the edge of the tab, a circle usually, pull up and the tab would pull off. Most people would throw them away and then drink out of the can, but some people would push the tab into the can or it some how ended up in there. The result was some people would end up swallowing the tab and choke on it. To counter this, the tab system was changed and the tab is no longer immediately removable. The problem is though, sometimes the tab comes off anyway, deliberately or not, and choking is still happening. And, while choking on foreign objects is usually a problem reserved for babies and toddlers,... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044710 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:30:56 +0100 3044710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894489&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGP-tW8jzjpA%2F Radley Balko exposes the politicians who play the game of enacting laws for symbolic purposes.  In this game, whether the proposed law has any actual impact on the supposed problem seems entirely beside the point.  Excerpt: Maryland just passed a texting ban, but state officials are flummoxed over how to enforce it. The law bans texting while driving but allows for reading texts, for precisely the reasons just mentioned. But how can a police officer positioned at the side of a highway tell if the driver of the car that just flew by was actually pushing buttons on his cellphone and not merely reading the display screen? Unless a motorist is blatantly typing away at eye level, a car would need to be moving slowly enough for an officer to see inside, focus on the phone, and observe the driv... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894489 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:30:00 +0100 2894489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871976&cid=t_112614_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F10%2F07%2Feverything-will-kill-you%2F My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up: Cigarettes, dry-cleaning solvent, radon, lead paint, asbestos, DDT, mercury fillings, tuna – that’s all old news. Now we got smoking bans, and not just in California. Even Europeans are catching on. We got alternative dry cleaners. We got radon abatement. We got lead-free paint. It starts fading and chipping the day after it dries, but that’s beside the point. We got rid of that bad, evil asbestos. Of course, it’s still in lots of homes in that bane of 1970s-era decor – popcorn ceilings. But if you’re thinking of removing it yourself, you’d better get it tested first. On second thought, you’d better not get it tested or you’ll have to disclose the result when you sell, and I promise that disclosure will... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871976 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:10:37 +0100 2871976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2832131&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQ9S6Mew6hiY%2F Perhaps the biggest problem with the Obama plan to “reform” our financial system is the impact it would have on the market perception surrounding “too big to fail” institutions.  In identifying some companies as “too big to fail” holders of debt in those companies would assume that they would be made whole if those companies failed.  After all, that is what we did for the debt-holders in Fannie, Freddie, AIG, and Bear.  Both former Secretary Paulson and Geithner appear under the impression that moral hazard only applies to equity, despite debt constituting more than 90% of the capital structure of the typical financial firm. Geithner believes he’s found a way to solve this problem – he’ll just tell everyone that there isn’t an ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2832131 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:54:35 +0100 2832131 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796406&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fp3f96edsLYc%2F Duncan “Atrios” Black sums up and amplifies on a much longer post by Salon’s Glenn Greenwald as follows: Just adding on to Glenn’s post, much opposition to the government actually doing anything decent for people comes from the idea that the government is going to take my tax money and give it to people who don’t deserve it. The problem is that for decades the Dems have tried to get around this by making sure policies and programs were relatively small and incremental, everything targeted and means tested. But doing that effectively confirmed the critics’ point. The big (giant) government programs which are most popular are the ones which are universal – Social Security and Medicare – and other less controversial government programs, like hig... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796406 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:36:02 +0100 2796406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=548571&cid=t_112614_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F17%2Fthought-for-the-day-the-facts-on-fish%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Research, Diets, Thought for the DayEver wonder what fish to eat, what fish to avoid, what fish is healthy, what fish is cancer-causing? I do. I'm looking into this whole fish thing. And while my search for information is in no way exhaustive and my findings are far from conclusive, I have found some interesting fishy facts and figures.Think about this:Fish definitely has health benefits. It's low in fat, high in protein, and rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Americans love this. How do I know? Because on average, each of us eats a record 16.6 pounds of fish every year. Our intake of shrimp and salmon has doubled, in fact, since 1994.Fish definitely has its drawbacks too. Headlines repeatedly warn us of dangerous contaminants in lakes, rivers, and oceans. Don't forget ... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=548571 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 548571