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Latest Articles: Health
Why Doctors Are Abandoning Medicare
Post Date: 2010-01-18 13:52:22 by scrapper2
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Physicians will not be bullied into bankruptcy. Our system needs reform, but what's being hammered out in Washington is not the answer. Two weeks ago the Mayo Clinic shocked the nation when it closed the doors of one of its Arizona clinics to patients on Medicare. Just this past June President Obama himself praised Mayo as a model of medical efficiency noting that Mayo gives “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” If Mayo feels compelled to walk away from this government-run program, others will surely follow. The nation must understand why. Doctors are leaving Medicare for two reasons: one obvious, the other more concealed. The first is ...
Reginald Thompson: How Pro-Life Are White Evangelicals?
Post Date: 2010-01-14 16:09:01 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Reginald Thompson: How Pro-Life Are White Evangelicals? January 13th, 2010 Reginald Thompson: White Evangelicals talk a good game when it comes to being Pro-Life, which is here defined as words or actions that cause more children to have life, and less unborn children to be annihilated in the womb. But are they just putting on a show to make themselves look righteous, with the possible motive of improving their own self-regard? To find out I looked at the 2008 Presidential Exit Polls to determine the percentage of voters in the 39 states with the relevant data who described themselves as White Evangelicals. Then I looked up the Abortion and White Total Fertility Rates for these 39 ...
If You Liked the Patriot Act, You Ought to Love Airport Body Scanners
Post Date: 2010-01-14 00:07:59 by snoopdougg
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In the days following 9/11, when the Patriot Act was rammed through Congress, we were told time and again that “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” from the greatly expanded surveillance powers that the new law extended to Uncle Sam. Millions of Americans drank this Kool-Aid. Consider some anecdotes: · A passenger after going through security at Denver International Airport: “I am so glad they are searching us like this.” · A girl in my old Bible study when warrantless wiretaps were much in the news: “They can spy on me!” (Her ...
Study: Fast morphine treatment may prevent PTSD
Post Date: 2010-01-13 17:58:19 by farmfriend
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Study: Fast morphine treatment may prevent PTSD By LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP Quickly giving morphine to wounded troops cuts in half the chance they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a provocative study that suggests a new strategy for preventing the psychological fallout of war. Researchers at the U.S. Naval Health Research Center led the study of about 700 troops injured in Iraq from 2004 through 2006. "It was surprising how strong the effect of the morphine was," said study leader Troy Lisa Holbrook, an epidemiologist at the naval center. The findings were published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. Whether the Pentagon will adopt the ...
Factory Farmed Meat Can Trigger a Global Pandemic That Wipes Out Sixty Percent of Those Infected
Post Date: 2010-01-11 06:13:17 by Kamala
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Factory Farmed Meat Can Trigger a Global Pandemic That Wipes Out Sixty Percent of Those Infected Saturday 09 January 2010 by: Kathy Freston | AlterNet The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a deadly flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen. I was intrigued (and disturbed) by a book I just read online by Michael Greger, M.D. about the potential of a deadly flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen. Greger very clearly delineates how a virus begins, mutates, and becomes dangerous. As with so many problems we are seeing lately -- environmental or health -- factory farmed meat seems to be a big ...
The Meat Market [tackling the organ shortage]
Post Date: 2010-01-10 21:22:28 by scrapper2
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Harvesting human organs for sale! The idea suggests the lurid world of horror movies and 19th-century graverobbers. Yet right now, Singapore is preparing to pay donors as much as $50,000 for their organs. Iran has eliminated waiting lists for kidneys entirely by paying its citizens to donate. Israel is implementing a "no give, no take" system that puts people who opt out of the donor system at the bottom of the transplant waiting list should they ever need an organ. Millions of people suffer from kidney disease, but in 2007 there were just 64,606 kidney-transplant operations in the entire world. In the U.S. alone, 83,000 people wait on the official kidney-transplant list. But ...
Drug Companies Create “Ideal Drug” – All Side Effects (Satire)
Post Date: 2010-01-09 17:52:49 by Horse
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Drug companies in recent years have continually improved their “treatment to side effect ratio” and poured millions into marketing new conditions, such as last year’s wildly popular “RLS – restless leg syndrome,” which returned millions more. They have finally come up with what they termed their “ideal drug”, one that treats nothing and has only side effects. “This is a major breakthrough,” gushed Puppy Piper, head of marketing for Restless Leg Syndrome, “the list of side effects it creates is a gold mine for all the drugs we already have to treat side effects like infertility, short term memory loss, diarrhea and those goodies. It ...
Amish have low cancer rate, but why?
Post Date: 2010-01-08 20:55:01 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Amish offered a rare opportunity for Dr. Judith Westman and her team. The members of Holmes County's Amish population all descend from 100 original settlers to the area about 200 years ago. Because they remain relatively sequestered and marry within the community, their family trees are heavily intertwined. That makes for an interesting gene pool. Researchers already know that certain types of rare genetic disorders are more common among the Amish, and they are interested in looking for information about more common medical conditions, including cancer. Westman, director of human genetics at Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center, fully expected to find some ...
Economist Was Under Contract With HHS While Touting Health Reform Bill
Post Date: 2010-01-08 13:32:50 by freepatriot32
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MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats' health proposals the media. MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats' health proposals in the media. Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under a $297,600 contract until next month to provide ...
Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria, Study Finds
Post Date: 2010-01-08 11:31:58 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Soda Fountains Squirt Fecal Bacteria, Study Finds Experts Say Infections Could Spread If Fountains Are Not Cleaned Properly By LAUREN COX ABC News Medical Unit Jan. 8, 2010 Those soda fountain machines found in restaurants and fast food joints may be squirting out liquids contaminated with fecal bacteria, a small study found. Whether it was self-serve or behind the counter, nearly half of all sodas dispensed from a sample of 30 machines in the Roanoke Valley in Virginia had coliform bacteria -- a group of bacteria banned in drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because it indicates the possibility of fecal contamination. "The EPA regulates our drinking ...
Study Turns up 10 Autism Clusters in California
Post Date: 2010-01-06 15:57:07 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Study Turns up 10 Autism Clusters in California By Julie Steenhuysen January 6, 2010 CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have identified 10 locations in California that have double the rates of autism found in surrounding areas, and these clusters were located in neighborhoods with high concentrations of white, highly educated parents. Researchers at the University of California Davis had hoped to uncover pockets of autism that might reveal clues about triggers in the environment that could explain rising rates of autism, which affects as many as one in 110 U.S. children. But the findings likely say more about the U.S. healthcare system than the causes of autism, said researcher Irva ...
Obama promised 8 times during campaign to televise health care debate
Post Date: 2010-01-06 12:51:58 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Obama promised 8 times during campaign to televise health care debate Comments: 14 By CLEMENTE LISI Last Updated: 12:22 PM, January 6, 2010 Posted: 11:58 AM, January 6, 2010 The health care revolution will not be televised despite what President Obama promised you two years ago. Obama has broken his campaign promises to make the health care debate a transparent process after saying he would do so on at least eight ocassions during his 2008 White House run. Instead, Obama prodded House and Senate Democrats to get him a final health care bill as soon as possible -- encouraging them on Tuesday night to go behind closed doors and skip the usual public negotiations between the two chambers ...
Military-Industrial Complex Set To Make A Killing From Body Scanners Huge defense contractor lands indefinite contract to supply naked imaging machines
Post Date: 2010-01-05 19:34:58 by Itistoolate
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Military-Industrial Complex Set To Make A Killing From Body Scanners Huge defense contractor lands indefinite contract to supply naked imaging machines Steve Watson http://Infowars.net Tuesday, Jan 5, 2010 The rabid calls for co-ordinated implementation of naked body scanners in airports across the planet, in the wake of the failed underwear bombing, will result in huge profits for the military industrial complex. The giant defense contractor L-3 Communications is first line, having already landed a $165 million contract for body scanners from the Transportation Security Administration late last week. The New York based company ranks among the world's top contractors, with 81% of ...
Are Feds Trying to Get Rid of IRS Agent-Turned-Tax Protester?
Post Date: 2010-01-05 19:19:44 by Itistoolate
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Are Feds Trying to Get Rid of IRS Agent-Turned-Tax Protester? By Pat Shannan Two years ago AFP reported that Sherry Jackson, a former IRS fraud examiner from Atlanta, was the latest victim in the Department of Justice’s crusade to silence any American who dares tell the truth about the federal income tax. This writer has known Mrs. Jackson for a decade. She is an intelligent, articulate woman and a CPA. She is a wife, mother and a Christian. She also doesn’t put up with liars who are railroading the American people. She’s worked hard over the years to get the truth to her countrymen about how we have been deceived by the IRS. After seeing an ad placed by the “We ...
WSJ: L-3 Security Executive Sees Wide Market For Full-Body Scanners
Post Date: 2010-01-05 15:03:02 by TwentyTwelve
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Wall Street Journal Article * DECEMBER 31, 2009, 11:20 A.M. ET L-3 Security Executive Sees Wide Market For Full-Body Scanners By Ann Keeton Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--The market for full-body scanners, now being considered for wider use in airport security, includes many more potential end users, according to manufacturer L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL). In an interview, Tom Ripp, president of Security and Detection Systems at L-3, said 200 of the company's SafeView body scanners have been deployed worldwide. The potential market includes thousands of airport locations as well as courthouses, prisons, border crossings and rail facilities. L-3 and OSI ...
AIRPORT FULL-BODY SCANNERS DESTROY DNA
Post Date: 2010-01-04 20:49:07 by Itistoolate
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Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance. The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. And even though they don't travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin. With all that potential, it's no wonder that research on ...
If the Price is Right
Post Date: 2010-01-04 12:15:10 by ndcorup
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If the price is rightExclusive: Chuck Norris declares, 'It's time to eject corrupt lawmakers!' January 04, 2010 1:00 am Eastern By Chuck Norris At almost 80 years old, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the corruption of a federal government with too much power, when he wrote to William T. Barry in 1822, just a few years before his death: "If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption[s], indifferent and incapable of wholesome care over so wide of spread of surface." "Wholesome care" like health care? I waited until after the New Year to write this column because Washington was hoping its Christmas ...
Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener Is Far More Deadly (HFCS)
Post Date: 2010-01-03 12:51:47 by christine
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Scientists have proved for the first time that fructose, a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis. Fructose, a sweetener usually derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease. Over 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a controlled diet including high levels of fructose produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose ...
The Health Care Debate Has Been “Meaningful”? It Just Ain’t So!
Post Date: 2010-01-02 18:57:43 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Credit where credit is due: David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column “The Values Question” (Nov. 24) on government health care reform: “The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.” Brooks is certainly right that no “health care reform” proposal with any chance in mainstream partisan politics promises any fundamental change to the status quo. What we have had is a system where pervasive government regulation, subsidy, and mandated captive markets corral workers into an industry driven by sky-high costs, managed by bureaucratic pencil-pushing and corporate economizing (often at the expense of ...
Obamacare and the Legacy of Progressivism
Post Date: 2010-01-02 17:11:37 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The suspense is over and it is inevitable that the monstrous medical care bill will become law. There is no way to sanitize this thing, period. It is the ultimate “Progressivist” legacy. Paul Krugman, perhaps the most visible “Progressive” today, supports this bill because it vastly expands the scope of the state in our lives. Like most “Progressives,” Krugman believes many things about a state controlled by people he supports. Among the “Progressive” beliefs are: * “Experts” should decide what is best for everyone; * The executive branch of government must employ “experts” who can make rules for everyone else; * Governmental ...
About Those “Death Panels”
Post Date: 2010-01-02 16:43:23 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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It seems inevitable that the government will grab the remains of “private” medical care, so I will look at our medical futures. One development will be the implementation of the infamous “death panels” that socialists swear are a figment of the imaginations of paranoid persons like Sarah Palin. For example, I received emails from the religious left-wing organization “Sojourners,” which declared that Palin was lying when she made the comment last August 7 in her Facebook page that declared: The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care ...
Montana Becomes Third State to Legalize Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Post Date: 2010-01-02 11:52:37 by abraxas
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Montana Becomes Third State to Legalize Doctor-Assisted Suicide By Joel Rosenblatt Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Physician-assisted suicide is legal in Montana, and doctors who help terminally ill patients die are shielded from prosecution, the state Supreme Court ruled. Montana is the third state, after Oregon and Washington, to allow physicians to help such patients end their lives, and yesterday’s decision is the first from a U.S. state high court to protect the choice, said Steve Hopcraft, a spokesman for Compassion and Choices, a group that advocates the practice. A lower court in Montana ruled in 2008 that the state’s constitutional privacy and human dignity rights allow a ...
.Solution to killer superbug found in Norway
Post Date: 2010-01-02 02:58:02 by Horse
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Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner. Look closer, however, at a microscopic level, and this place is pristine. There is no sign of a dangerous and contagious staph infection that killed tens of thousands of patients in the most sophisticated hospitals of Europe, North America and Asia this year, soaring virtually unchecked. The reason: Norwegians stopped taking so many drugs. Twenty-five years ago, Norwegians were also losing their lives to this bacteria. But Norway's public health ...
Dr. Barnard's 21-day Vegan Kickstart Jan 1
Post Date: 2009-12-31 03:30:44 by Tatarewicz
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Nutrition MD Neil Barnard launches a 21-day Vegan diet to help you keep your arteries from clogging up with cholesterol from animal fats; means cutting out all animal source food, including dairy which will also help men avoid prostate problems. Cheese of which Americans consume 30 pounds annually should be avoided, even on pizzas (replace it with extra tomato sauce). Risk of cardiovascular disease increases 2% for each one percent rise in total cholesterol. Desirable cholesterol concentration is 200mg/dl but epidemiological evidence suggests risk of cardiac events decreases as total cholesterol levels plateau at 150 mg/dl. Vegan diets free of cholesterol and very low in saturated fat ...
Women and Guns [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-30 13:07:16 by abraxas
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Women and Guns by Massad Ayoob In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its goals in terms of equality and empowerment, the concept that guns are somehow evil icons of male brutality has managed to survive as the longest-standing relic of the old "Suzie Housewife mentality." Political enfranchisement? Of course! Entry into previously male-exclusive job markets? A done deal, for the most part. Economic power and self-determination? You bet. But defend yourself and your loved ones against a deadly criminal, by resorting to a gun of your own? "OMG!!! You're just surrendering to the brutal male ...
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