For 10 years—including the boom times banks enjoyed in the first half of this decade—the FDIC was prevented from collecting fees from 95% of financial institutions, which it would have used to further build up its safety net in the event it would someday have to bail out a bunch of stupi...

Steven Lash, President and CEO of Satori World Medical, spoke with HealthBlawg last week about Satori's take on medical tourism, including its method of sharing cost savings with consumers who use Satori's services through employer-sponsored health plans. The audio file of my interview with Steven L...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

By Adam Thierer, Berin Szoka, & Adam Marcus As noted in the first installment of our "Privacy Solution Series," we are outlining various user-empowerment or user "self-help" tools that allow Internet users to better protect their privacy online-and especially to defeat tracking for online behavi...

Not so sweet, not so surprising Scientists at Yale have found the “missing link” between high fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes.  Also, the average American gulps down 60 lbs of the stuff every year. Private inspections a weak defense The NY Times tell the story of a private insp...

Six major companies have agreed to stop selling hard-plastic baby bottles which contain bisphenol-A in the United States. The companies are responding to growing public concern. The companies are Playtex Products Inc., Gerber, Evenflo Co., Avent America Inc., Dr. Brown and Disney First Years. This p...

The new crop of regulars at the Manchester Pub mourn for Fubar, their former East Side haunt that was crushed by a toppling crane last year....

CNN reports: An Illinois sheriff filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the owners of craigslist, accusing the popular national classified-ad Web site of knowingly promoting prostitution. The sheriff is upset that the site maintains a bulletin board system which is very lightly policed by its crea...

Here is the video I shared with you on today’s Morning Browser that was posted on YouTube last night by members of the United Mountain Defense. As I mentioned on the show, the video shows an aggressive cigar smoking Roane County Police Officer refusing to accept a valid form of government issu...

Low energy density diet prevents weight gain Children who have a gene linked to an increased risk of obesity can prevent that fate by eating more fruits and vegetables, according to a report from the journal PLoS ONE. Looking at more than 2,000 children, researchers from University College London an...