Category: Health

To Save Lives, End Business As Usual at the FDA

National Policy Analysis #215 /
While most Americans are caught up in the Clinton-Lewinsky soap opera, another Washington drama may have far more immediate impact on the lives of most Americans. At issue is the future direction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the ...
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Alar Redux: Hollywood Peddles Shaky Science Once Again

National Policy Analysis #202 /
You remember the Alar Scare -- when Hollywood actress Meryl Streep, an environmental group peddling junk science and an irresponsibly biased interview by CBS's 60 Minutes caused panicky parents all over America to stop buying apples. Apple growers lost at ...
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Cloning Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows

National Policy Analysis #196 /
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, particularly when it comes to the issue of cloning. Last month, anti-biotechnology crusader Jeremy Rifkin endeared himself to many religious groups when he sought to patent a process for creating part human and part animal ...
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Ironies of the Tobacco Wars

National Policy Analysis #198 /
Did you know that airline air was better back when smoking was allowed on planes? According to the respected travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler, in the days of airline smoking, pilots let up to four times as much fresh air ...
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Save Social Security: Bring Back the Balanced Budget Amendment

National Policy Analysis #189 /
If federal spending and revenue trends of the last three years continue, the United States will be able to pay off its entire national debt in 15 years, says Wisconsin Congressman Mark Neumann. That's good news for everybody, but especially ...
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Larger Public Health Risks Overlooked in the Global Warming Debate

Press Release /
Policy Proposals Seek Solution to Hypothetical Health Risks While Ignoring Real Ones For Immediate Release November 21, 1997 Contact: David Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research at (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] The public health "big picture" has ...
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Is UNICEF Aiding AIDS? by Kevin Pritchett

New Visions Commentary /
by Kevin PritchettA New Visions Commentary paper published November 1997 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax (202) 543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Whether ...
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Senator Wellstone Sticks Up for Kids… Until Trial Lawyers Ask Him for a Favor

National Policy Analysis #172 /
Senator Paul Wellstone, the former Carleton College professor who represents Minnesota in the Senate, loves to portray himself as a champion of the poor -- particularly children from low-income and no-income households. A member of the Senate Children and Families ...
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How Social Security Shortchanges Black Americans, by Deroy Murdock

New Visions Commentary /
By yesterday's definition of racism, the answer is no. For all its failings, Social Security was concocted in 1935 with glowing intentions. Rescuing the elderly from poverty -- regardless of race -- is an idea to which only the flintiest ...
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New Clean Air Standards Could Place Children at Greater Risk

National Policy Analysis #164 /
On September 23, 1994, at approximately 3:02 a.m., 17-year-old J. Brandon Young III died. His young life slipped away after it took more than an hour for an ambulance to come to his aid. The ambulance station was just six ...
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