Tag: Disease

Bret Baier, Brit Hume, A.B. Stoddard and Charlie Hurt share memories of Charles Krauthammer on 'The Ingraham Angle.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…

Sean Hannity shares a look back at a special moment with friend and colleague Charles Krauthammer. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Monday said there’s a “serious disease” affecting U.S. politics. “There’s a disease now in American politics. It’s a serious disease,” Kasich said while appearing on “MSNBC Live" with Stephanie Ruhle. “It’s like everybody just is worried about the next elections," Kasich said. “If you’re a Democrat, then you’re against everything the Republicans are doing. If you’re a Republican, you’re against everything the Democrats are doing,” Kasich said, further adding that if a Democrat doesn’t adopt left-wing ideology, he or she “can’t be approved by Bernie Sanders.” Kasich also weighed in on the president’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in the separation of undocumented children from their families and prompted criticism from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. “When you are the strongest, the most powerful, the wealthiest, then you have broad shoulders. You don’t shrink away and whine and blame,” Kasich responded when asked about the controversial policy. “Think about the fact that in our country, children, young children, are being separated from their mothers and fathers,” Kasich said.

Drug makers push back against fees on prescription painkillers. Dr. Nicole Saphier provides insight on 'Fox & Friends First.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business…

The University of Massachusetts–Amherst is offering a course this semester titled “Feminist Health Politics,” which “will examine how health becomes defined, and will question whether health and disease are objectively measured conditions or subjective states.” “What is health?” asks the course description on the college’s website. “What makes health a matter of feminism?” “We will also consider why and how definitions and standards of health have changed over time; why and how standards and adjudications of health vary according to gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality; and how definitions of health affect the way we value certain bodies and ways of living,” the description continues. It absolutely is true, for example, that issues such as “environmental conditions” can affect a person’s health, and that’s something worth studying. What’s not worth studying, however, is that ridiculous idea that a disease might somehow be a “subjective state.” I can’t even believe I have to write this, but having a disease absolutely is an objective thing. If someone has group A streptococcal bacteria, then she definitely has strep throat. Plenty of fields of study are completely subjective things — literature, art, music. For example, one scholar might believe that a particular author is wonderful and brilliant, another scholar might think that that same author is a hack, and there’s really no objective way to prove which one of these people is “correct.” After all, it’s all a matter of taste and judgment. Medicine is as objective as it gets. Of course, there may be situations where different doctors might disagree about what’s wrong with a particular patient, but there will still always be the existence of the objective truth of what that patient’s problem really is — and that objective truth is a reality that is not up for debate. This story was previously covered in an article at Campus Reform.