Category Archives: public health

CVS to stop selling tobacco products: some grass-roots contribution from the blogosphere?

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Ryan Madanick, MD

In 2011 I posted this petition to try to get CVS and Rite Aid to stop stop selling tobacco (see my 2011 blog post). Although the petition closed in 2013 with just under 2800 signatures, today is finally the day I’ve … Continue reading →

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An empirical scientific viewpoint about gun control

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Ryan Madanick, MD

For just a moment, let’s take a scientific viewpoint about gun control here and try to leave emotions (and the Constitutional argument) out. The best type of study to determine whether gun control and/or regulation would be a Randomized Trial: … Continue reading →

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