Jane M. Orient

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  Mar 19, 2014

  Perils in the Air: a Frequent Flyer Physician Reflects on Flight MH 370

  The bizarre disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 might sound like an episode from the Twilight Zone, when an aircraft vanishes into a different dimension and emerges in an earlier time.

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  Dec 9, 2013

  ObamaCare Is Not a Conservative Idea

  Even as ObamaCare is trying to self-destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which "Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law," in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News.

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  Oct 2, 2013

  Washington Has It Backward on Defunding ObamaCare

  Defunding ObamaCare does not really require an active decision by the U.S. House of Representatives. It is the default option—as in what happens if you don't do something.

• Mar 25, 2013

  Medicaid Expansion: Déjà Vu All Over Again

  Republican governors are following the script of Obama and Clinton in their campaign strategy for the Medicaid expansion that is needed to implement ObamaCare: The cast of earnest white coats and tearful upstanding, hard-working patients with hard-luck stories. Statements that sound as though they were written by the same PR firm. The same dire consequences of inaction.

• Mar 6, 2013

  Why Aggressive Breast Cancer in Young Women? Think Hormones

  But since the Sexual Revolution, young women in huge numbers have taken higher doses of hormones than their menopausal sisters—in birth control pills. In 2005, the World Health Organization classified oral contraceptives as class-1 carcinogens, one of only about 100 substances found to be "carcinogenic in humans."

• Jan 13, 2011

  There is More to the Story of The Tucson Shootings

  The shooter, like everybody else these days, exists in a sea of messages that glorify and sensationalize violence