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Bulletin: Cigarettes Remain Dangerous to Your Health
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe drug pusher companies known as Big Tobacco, those anachronistic but determined manufacturers of nicotine delivery systems, have been smoked out for marketing their deathly products in a manner misleading to their addicted buyers. Even before the 1964 surgeon general's report warned consumers that cigarettes may be harmful to our health, advertisers were assuring doubtful smokers their tar-, nicotine-, flavoring- and preservative-laced packs of rolled-up tobacco were smoked by more doctors than any other brand. Effective on Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration, now regulating ...
Non-Believers Losing Faith in Obama: More God Talk Than Bush -- and Same Old Faith-Based Policies
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Secular Coalition for America moved into spanking new K Street offices this week and the swagger – and implicit political heft – that such an address confers on the lone Washington lobby representing America's proudly godless couldn't come at a better time. Back on Election Day, Barack Obama was a favorite of the religiously unaffiliated, winning an overwhelming 75 percent of a bloc that is growing fast – from nine percent of the electorate in 2000 to 12 percent in 2008 – and one that figures to be crucial to Obama's chances in 2012, especially as his ...
Obama's Choice for Surgeon General: 'An Angel in a White Coat'
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailySanjay, we hardly knew ye.Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's celebrity neurosurgeon who was President Obama's first choice as surgeon general, cited a variety of personal reasons for turning down the post, but a Gulf Coast dynamo named Regina M. Benjamin has no such compunctions. Her nomination was announced Monday by President Obama, who lauded his choice as a physician who understands the health care needs of the nation "in a personal and powerful way." ...
Dr. Regina Benjamin: Family Doctor Obama's Pick for Surgeon General
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyPresident Obama has made a second nomination for the next surgeon general, after CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta's short-lived -- but much publicized -- nomination fell through earlier this year. Dr. Regina Benjamin, the new nominee, practices medicine in Alabama and came to national attention in 2005 when she mobilized volunteers to rebuild her clinic after it was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, only to have to rebuild again the next year after a fire. The thing I'm most excited about, though, is her specialty. Dr. Benjamin is a primary care physician -- a family doctor -- and practices medicine in a ...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Tells Larry King Why He's Out As Surgeon General
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: Here's video of Gupta on Larry King (nice get, Larry!) explaining that it's not the money, but his love of surgery. Who doesn't love surgery?Obama appointments are getting to be more and more like Spinal Tap drummerships every day.CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has withdrawn his name from consideration for US Surgeon General. From CNN (how did they get such a scoop?!?):CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has withdrawn his name from consideration as the nation's next surgeon general, opting to continue to devote time to his reporting and his medical career. Gupta will discuss his ...
Who is Sexier: C. Everett Koop or Sanjay Gupta?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith the news that Barack Obama intends to nominate Dr. Sanjay Gupta for the post of Surgeon General, it's clear that the president-elect is doing his level-best to, in the immortal words of Justin Timberlake, "bring sexy back" to Washington DC. Along with the Clooney-esque TV doc, Obama has offered the nation such eye candy as Tim Geithner to head the Treasury, and basketball-pal Arne Duncan to re-shape education. And, yes, while it's true that there are plenty of Nots, in this "Hot or Not" cabinet, Gupta has definitely raised the aggregate looks quotient (er, or so my gay and female friends ...
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