by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2006 | Uncategorized |
National Public Radio came out today with a segment about the intriguing flu vaccine situation, which has physicians being caught short, while big retailers like Wal-Mart and Walgreens have all they need. NPR even quotes Dr. Leonard Finn, the family physician who was...
by David Gumpert | Oct 5, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Last Friday, when a spokesperson for the California Department of Food and Agriculture told me the agency had lifted its quarantine of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. raw milk, I took that to mean the dairy was back in business. So did Mark McAfee, the co-owner, who...
by David Gumpert | Oct 4, 2006 | Uncategorized |
You can tell in Mark McAfee’s rapid-fire-staccato speaking style that the head of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. is a no-nonsense type. He doesn’t take well to being screwed with, as California’s Department of Food and Agriculture did in closing his...
by David Gumpert | Oct 3, 2006 | Uncategorized |
At the just-concluded annual meeting of the Amercian Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), there was much talk and complaining about flu vaccine shortages. A physician who was present reports that he sampled a group of 22 family physicians gathered to discuss various...
by David Gumpert | Sep 30, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Curious developments on the tainted food front. 1. Just a day after my article about the shutdown of a California raw milk dairy appeared on BusinessWeek.com, California’s Department of Food and Agriculture lifted its quarantine of Organic Pastures Dairy...
by David Gumpert | Sep 29, 2006 | Uncategorized |
It’s difficult not to feel badly for Mark McAfee and his family. Together they run Organic Pastures Dairy Farm, a 300-cow farm near Fresno, CA, that has become California’s largest provider of raw milk. As I detail in my latest BusinessWeek.com column,...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2006 | Uncategorized |
There’s lots of handwringing in the media about the fact that health care insurance coverage rose 7.7 per cent this year, which is more than double the overall inflation rate. And the situation can only get worse as the population ages, argue the pundits.Well, I...
by David Gumpert | Sep 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The media have been full of stories about how there will be plenty of flu vaccine this year. What they didn’t explain is the proviso that there will be plenty if you want to go to Walgreens or Wal-Mart for your flu vaccine. Your physician may be rationing...
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