by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been following the news reports about a sharp decline in breast cancer rates that seem to coincide with reduced usage of the Wyeth estrogen drug, Prempro. That is certainly encouraging news, though the likelihood that a major prescription drug substantially...
by David Gumpert | Dec 25, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I read once again through the many comments concerning my posting about Lauren Herzog’s illness ("E.coli and Raw Milk: A Family Web of Intrigue and Resentment"), and realized more than before just how informative they are. I think what impresses...
by David Gumpert | Dec 24, 2006 | Uncategorized |
So many people were intrigued by the story of how 10year-old Lauren Herzog might have become ill from E.coli, that I thought it useful to explore another story about E.coli. This is the story of the E.coli outbreak that sickened 71 Taco Bell customers earlier this...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I recently read an astounding statistic in one of the major newspapers, attributed to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), so astounding I had to confirm it for myself. Sure enough, I found it on the CDC web site: the agency estimates in a research paper that each...
by David Gumpert | Dec 22, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The scenario that Miguel describes in his comment on yesterday’s posting–of regulators paranoid that wild animals or small herds of healthy animals will spark an epidemic among the immune-compromised animals of factory farms–was played out a few...
by David Gumpert | Dec 21, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) raises lots of emotion, if the comments about my BusinessWeek.com article (accompanying the article, and on this site) are any indication. Four points stand out to me: 1. The idea that NAIS discriminates against small...
by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
As I was researching the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) for my new BusinessWeek.com column, I had this uneasy feeling I was missing data. It seemed that each time I tried to figure out what a particular state like Texas or Indiana was up to with regard...
by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2006 | Uncategorized |
How do you respond to a parent who accuses you of aiding and abetting the company that made her daughter seriously ill? I’ve been grappling with that question for the last ten days, since I received an email from Melissa Herzog, the mother of one of the five...
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