“disease” on The Daily Caller

New York was made for fashion. With its sidewalks that are stomped on like catwalks, to its bright lights that shine down on them, this city is home to the world’s most fabulous residents, like our first Model New Yorker, Marlena Ortiz. (more)

Four and a half years ago, my mom was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — A top runner who hits the wall. A coach with a cruel illness. A state championship at stake. (more)

Bureaucrats have thankless jobs, always under attack for some horrible decision or another they’re making or choice to the public they’re limiting, and justifiably so. This is not a defense of bureaucrats, they’re deserving of almost every criticism that comes their way. This is to point out yet another way in which bureaucrats could limit options for you and your family through their ever-growing control over our health care. (more)

When the heck did the Food Police get actual badges? (more)

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A brain autopsy of a University of Pennsylvania football player who killed himself in April has revealed the same trauma-induced disease found in more than 20 deceased National Football League players, raising questions of how young football players may be at risk for the disease. (more)

AUSTIN, Tex. — Barry Bonds. Marion Jones. Alex Rodriguez. Roger Clemens. There is no shortage of athletes who have fallen from grace, their achievements on the playing field and their public stature compromised by accusations of cheating or revelations of criminal or otherwise repugnant behavior. (more)

PARIS (AP) — The Tour de France ended in celebration, with winner Alberto Contador sipping champagne as he rode into the French capital and Mark Cavendish raising his hands in triumph as he once again claimed a stage victory on the Champs-Elysees. (more)

California is facing what could be the state’s biggest outbreak of pertussis since 1958, according to its top public health official. This contagious disease is more commonly known as whooping cough due the distinctive whoop that occurs when sufferers cough and gasp for breath. (more)

Imagine being gang-raped. Imagine the pain it causes, the shame it inflicts and the endless trauma it bears. Now, imagine being told just months later that you’ve contracted HIV as a result. This is the story of Elizabeth Shepherd. (more)

An outraged retiree, “Mr. Edwards,” recently wrote on a health care blog that despite taking a particular brand name cholesterol-lowering statin for 17 years with good results, his United Healthcare/AARP health insurance policy would not cover his preferred prescription. It would, however, authorize another statin—Merck’s Zocor. (more)

The discovery of anti-infective agents such as antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals, and antibacterials in the 1930s and 1940s represents a transformative moment in human history. They have made an invaluable contribution to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Since their introduction, anti-infectives have revolutionized healthcare and saved millions of lives. Unfortunately, over time, bacterium inevitably develops resistance to existing drugs, making infections difficult if not impossible to treat. (more)

The Washington D.C. City Council is set to vote May 25 on its 2011 budget and, included in the list of potential line items, is the contentious “soda tax,” a 1 cent per-ounce tax on bottled and canned soda intended to pay for a healthy schools initiative designed to address childhood obesity. (more)

A U.S. scientist says he’s found a new role for zebrafish in human studies — as an animal model for an enzyme found in people’s brains. (more)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Tennis icon Martina Navratilova is battling breast cancer. (more)

Last month, Sen. Arlen Specter, together with fellow Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey, introduced a bill called the Biosecurity and Vaccine Development Improvement Act. (more)

People are looking at me funny. Funnier than usual. Some sneer or laugh derisively. Some have a kind smile. Most just stare. (more)

Forty-seven years ago I was born with polcystic kidney disease, a rare genetic disease where cysts eat away at the fabric of my kidney. I am very fortunate my wife happens to have the same blood type as me, allowing her to give me one of her kidneys so that I can have a transplant performed. Considering Alonzo Mourning and Sean Elliot had transplants and played in the NBA afterwards; I know I will be able to handle the rigors of a Congressional schedule and represent the people of Virginia’s 5th District with to the best of my abilities. (more)

Among the many exaggerated claims made in favor of the health care legislation before Congress is the idea that it would improve the public health system’s ability to manage public health crises like HIV and swine flu. (more)

I am usually a big fan of George Mason University’s innovative economist Tyler Cowen. But something peculiar seems to come over free-market fans when they start writing for The New York Times. Case in point: Cowen’s “Managed Care: Get Used to It.” (more)