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Latest Articles: Health
Get ready for the health police
Post Date: 2009-11-04 15:38:40 by Original_Intent
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Get ready for the health police Big Brother is watching you... and soon, he may also be keeping tabs on your waistline, your blood pressure and all of your habits. Enter the world of the health police. In the socialist dreamworld of ObamaCare, anyone who's overweight, has high cholesterol levels or suffers from any other condition will be forced to pay a penalty. Drinkers, smokers and anyone else who enjoys life's greatest pleasures, watch out. They're coming for you, too. That's right -- under a terrifying new law making its way through the Senate, anyone who doesn't meet some bureaucrat's vision of good health will pay the price. And I can guarantee you this: ...
Michigan woman dies after Medicaid dental care is cut
Post Date: 2009-11-04 14:19:52 by Horse
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An elderly Michigan woman died in October as the result of a severe dental infection after adult dental Medicaid benefits were cut in the state. Blanche D. LaVire, 76, had been diagnosed with abscesses earlier in the year and reportedly suffered from advanced periodontitis. Because LaVire was mentally challenged, she required special treatment. Her condition was such that her doctors felt it would be unwise to undergo treatment in a dentist’s office. Advised to have the necessary procedure performed in a hospital, LaVire was then scheduled for an oral surgery near the end of June. The procedure was delayed when LaVire contracted pneumonia. Once she had recovered from the pneumonia, ...
Commercial Pigs In Indiana Test Positive For H1N1
Post Date: 2009-11-04 14:04:23 by Brian S
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(11-04) 10:54 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture says pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for the swine flu virus. This is the first instance of swine flu in a commercial herd in the United States. The USDA says it discovered four tissue samples that tested positive for the virus using its swine surveillance program. The USDA says the pigs as well as the people caring for the pigs have recovered. The sample was collected in late October. Last month, tests confirmed several show pigs at the Minnesota State Fair contracted the virus, also known as H1N1.
Pet Cat In U.S. Catches Swine Flu
Post Date: 2009-11-04 13:24:43 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cat in Iowa has tested positive for H1N1 swine flu, the first time a cat has been diagnosed with the new pandemic strain, the American Veterinary Medical Association said on Wednesday. The 13-year-old cat apparently caught the virus from one of the people living in the house, the group said in a statement. It has recovered and does not appear to have infected anyone or anything else. Pigs are the original source of the H1N1 virus and it has been found in several herds, as well as in a pet ferret. Ferrets are especially susceptible to human influenza viruses. "Two of the three members of the family that owns the pet had suffered from influenza-like illness ...
The Abortion Industry
Post Date: 2009-11-04 13:06:28 by Itistoolate
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Ten weeks after conception, the baby's heart beat can be heard * Power Point Presentation (broadband) * April 7th: Abortion Trial Transcripts Reveal Truth - Read the Abortionists' Testimony (WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL) * It is witchcraft The Chickenpox, Hepatitis-A and MMR vaccines were developed using aborted fetal cell lines, MRC-5 and WI-38. This has never been hidden from the public. When parents take their children to the doctor for inoculations, who asks for the package inserts? Who asks for a list of the vaccine ingredients? Most parents want to know the risks and possible side effects. Parents are mostly concerned with the health of their children as some doctors are. ...
The paradox of US healthcare
Post Date: 2009-11-04 10:24:32 by tom007
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The paradox of US healthcare By Andrew Kennis The debate over health insurance reform is raging in Washington [GALLO/GETTY] For nearly two decades, Wendell Potter led a very comfortable life as a public relations health insurance executive. However, while flying on a corporate jet and being served lunch on gold-rimmed china with gold-plated cutlery, Potter had an epiphany of sorts. He realised that the reason why millions of Americans were without health insurance or under-insured was because: "Our Wall Street-driven healthcare system has created one of the most inequitable healthcare systems on the planet." This June, Potter left his well-paid and secure job at CIGMA, one of ...
Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound
Post Date: 2009-11-04 00:53:36 by scrapper2
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he former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a "change of heart" after watching an abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility. Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic in the eight years she volunteered and worked for Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus "crumple" as it was vacuumed out of a patient's uterus in September. 'When I was working at Planned Parenthood I was extremely pro-choice," Johnson told FoxNews.com. But after seeing the internal workings of the ...
Premature Births Most To Blame For High US Infant Mortality Rate, Government Says
Post Date: 2009-11-03 12:08:01 by Brian S
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11:34 AM CST, November 3, 2009 ATLANTA (AP) — Premature births, often due to poor care of low-income pregnant women, are the main reason the U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than in most European countries, a government report said Tuesday. About 1 in 8 U.S. births are premature. Early births are much less common most of Europe; for example, only 1 in 18 babies are premature in Ireland and Finland. Poor access to prenatal care, maternal obesity and smoking, too-early cesarean sections and induced labor and fertility treatments are among the reasons for preterm births, experts said. Premature babies born before 37 weeks tend to be more fragile and have under-developed lungs, ...
Canada’s answer to flu: body bags
Post Date: 2009-11-03 10:48:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Canada’s answer to flu: body bags When swine flu threatened to strike native North American communities in Canada for a second time, tribal leaders appealed to the government for help. They were hoping for medicine and doctors. The government sent them body bags. Grand Chief David Harper represents 30 northern Manitoba native American communities, known in Canada as First Nations people. He told RNW that when he asked the government for support he was hoping for more than just hand sanitizers and facemasks. And body bags were definitely not what he had in mind. “Not at all. This was never even in the discussion. That was a total insult to our communities, that when we ask for ...
Study Raises Questions About Cost Savings From Preventive Care: Reform's Backers Say Such Measures Will Help Pay for Overhaul of Health System
Post Date: 2009-11-02 18:44:32 by scrapper2
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Preventive services for the chronically ill may reduce health-care costs, but they are unlikely to generate the kind of fantastic savings that President Obama and other Democrats have said could help pay for an overhaul of the nation's health system, according to a study being published Tuesday. Using data from long-standing clinical trials, researchers projected the cost of caring for people with Type 2 diabetes as they progress from diagnosis to various complications and death. Enrolling federally-insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost the government $1,024 per person per year -- money that largely would be recovered after 25 years ...
Half of US children -- and most black children -- will use food stamps, Cornell study reports
Post Date: 2009-11-02 18:02:24 by Kamala
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Contact: Blaine Friedlander bpf2@cornell.edu 607-254-8093 Cornell University Half of US children -- and most black children -- will use food stamps, Cornell study reports Nearly half of American children – including 90 percent of black children and 90 percent of children who spend their childhoods in single-parent households – will eat meals paid for by food stamps at some point during childhood, reports a Cornell researcher. Nearly one-quarter of U.S. children will live in homes that receive food stamps for five or more years. Food stamps are important indicators of poverty and risk of food insecurity, "two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a ...
By The Numbers
Post Date: 2009-11-02 18:00:20 by tom007
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YouTube views of Rise of the Tea Bags, as of right now, since we posted it on Wednesday: 3,936 4,711 5,366 (Be the 4,000th 5,000th 6,000th!) Followers of The BRAD BLOG on Twitter, as of right now: 497 518 (Be the 500th! Thanks to #500, @silver02suby. Be the 600th!) Cost of national defense authorization bill for 2010 only, as signed by Obama on Wednesday without objection from tea baggers: $680 billion Approximate cost of proposed U.S. House health insurance bill per year (though not reported this way by media): $90 billion Cost of U.S. House health insurance bill over next ten years, as always reported by the media and vigorously objected to by tea baggers, despite CBO finding that it ...
HEALTH DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICANS & EUROPEANS [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-11-02 16:41:11 by Destro
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By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Last Updated: 02/22/2009 HEALTH DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICANS & EUROPEANS I have commented before about the striking discordance between the amount of money that we spend on health care in the United States and the health outcomes that we achieve with all of those dollars. At more than $2 trillion dollars per year, or more than $7,000 per citizen per year, the U.S. spends more on health care than virtually every other country in the world. One would, therefore, assume that all of those trillions of health care dollars would translate into a globally unsurpassed level of health and wellbeing in America. However, one would actually be mistaken in this ...
With Highest Rate Of Cases, Navy Sees HIV Infections Rise
Post Date: 2009-11-02 11:19:28 by Brian S
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November 2, 2009 The good news: The virus that causes AIDS is more treatable than ever - and with treatment, individuals infected with HIV can live into old age. The bad news: The Navy's HIV infection rate has been rising for a decade and is significantly higher than any other military branch. In 2008, the Navy discovered 36 HIV cases for every 100,000 sailors tested - more than double its 1999 numbers. Officials say they don't know why the Navy's rate is on the rise. Dr. Rick Shaffer, a retired Navy physician who heads the Department of Defense's HIV/AIDS effort in San Diego, said military personnel are less scared about HIV now than they were at the height of the AIDS ...
How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot (satire)
Post Date: 2009-11-02 07:27:57 by wudidiz
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How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot (satire) Swine flu vaccine zealots are like zombies... they just keep coming at you, mindless... heartless... empty-headed and a tad funky on the smell, too. But I've noticed from observing the behavior of a few such zealots that not all of them fully comprehend precisely how to act like a mindless vaccine zealot. There's more to it than just parroting whatever the FDA says. You actually have to get with the zealot program if you want to be taken seriously as a swine flu vaccine zealot. So I've put together this handy guide to help them along: Step 1) Loudly proclaim your vaccines are backed by "science," but when critics ask ...
*** THE FLU CASE ***
Post Date: 2009-11-02 07:05:19 by wudidiz
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BREAKING: Unidentified flu outbreak in Western Ukraine : The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise Western Ukrainians to stay at home and use preventive medication. The first pedestrians wearing face masks have been seen on Lviv streets
Post Date: 2009-11-01 20:38:23 by Mind_Virus
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Unidentified flue outbreak in Western Ukraine. Western Ukraine was hit by a severe epidemic of unidentified influenza, tentatively diagnosed by doctors as viral pneumonia. The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise Western Ukrainians to stay at home and use preventive medication. The first pedestrians wearing face masks have been seen on Lviv streets Lviv kindergartens and schools have been closed, and the city council is to have its emergency session soon to address the flue outbreak. So far, the information released by the authorities on the epidemic dimensions spread and preventive measures is scarce, causing panic to spread in the city. Here are the latest reports on ...
CBO: Public option premiums higher than private plans
Post Date: 2009-11-01 19:13:11 by scrapper2
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The public insurance option would typically charge higher premiums than private plans available in the exchange, according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House bill. That surprising conclusion raises doubts about Democratic promises that a government-run insurance plan would provide a lower-cost alternative to consumers. At the same time, it calls into question Republican charges that the plan amounts to government takeover of health insurance -- because only 6 million people would enroll in the plan, according to the CBO. *****Here's the key passage from page 6:***** Roughly one-fifth of the people purchasing coverage through the exchanges would enroll in the ...
NYPD Detective From Elite Unit Drunkenly Mowed Down Bronx Grandmother Following A Night Of Boozing
Post Date: 2009-11-01 16:02:15 by Brian S
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A decorated NYPD detective from an elite unit drunkenly mowed down a Bronx grandmother as he drove home yesterday following a night of boozing -- in a deadly episode eerily similar to one involving another city cop last month, authorities said. Detective Kevin Spellman, 42, worked on a task force that hunted down the city's most dangerous criminals. He was driving on Kingsbridge Avenue in a US Marshal-issued Chevy at around 6:30 a.m. when he struck Drana Nikac at West 232nd Street, cops said. Nikac, a 67-year-old retired textile worker who was out collecting bottles for recycling, went head-first into Spellman's windshield -- leaving a basketball-sized dent in the glass -- and ...
Paying Patients Test British Health Care System [ if UK breast cancer patient comes to US to get access to medication she desperately needs, NHS wants her to pay for ALL her cancer treatment]
Post Date: 2009-10-31 15:27:18 by scrapper2
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LONDON — Created 60 years ago as a cornerstone of the British welfare state, the National Health Service is devoted to the principle of free medical care for everyone. But recently it has been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest free from the health service. Although the government is reluctant to discuss the issue, hopscotching back and forth between private and public care has long been standard here for those who can afford it. But a few recent cases have exposed fundamental contradictions between policy and practice in the system, and tested its ...
Patients promised six new rights to NHS treatment [I thought UK patients were already had lotsa rights and were ENTITLED to yummy FREE health care up the wazoo]
Post Date: 2009-10-31 15:08:35 by scrapper2
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In a shift in emphasis on public services which sees central targets replaced by new "entitlements", patients will receive a legal right to hospital care within 18 weeks, along with free check-ups for the over-40s and guaranteed access to cancer treatments. They will also be promised the right to die at home if they suffer from a long-term condition, treatment from an NHS dentist and to be treated in accident and emergency departments within four hours. Local residents will also be given priority over immigrants and people from other areas on council housing queues, In addition, parents are due to receive a "statement of entitlement" telling them what they can demand ...
Why are British men healthier than American ones?
Post Date: 2009-10-31 12:27:17 by Destro
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Why are British men healthier than American ones? By Sydney Spiesel Posted Monday, May 15, 2006, at 12:03 PM ET Earlier this month, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared the health of a group of men in the United States with that of a very similar group of men in England. The researchers found a striking difference in the quality of health of the two populations—the Americans were sicker and died younger than their British counterparts. The results are anxiety-provoking because they can't easily be accounted for—and because one of the study's authors, Dr. Michael Marmot of University College, London, is a giant in the field. Marmot's ...
WHY CANADIANS ARE LAUGHING AT US [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-10-30 20:57:26 by Destro
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WHY CANADIANS ARE LAUGHING AT US By Richard Reeves Richard Reeves AUSTIN, Texas -- A guy walks up to you in a bar here and asks, "Are you a Republican, conservative or independent?" You can't tell if he's kidding. After all, this is the most liberal place in the state. It's also where I first heard about Shona Holmes, the Canadian lady. Holmes, a 45-year-old citizen of a place called Waterdown in Ontario, has become the Joan of Arc of the battle against health care reform in the United States. As she tells it, OHIP, the acronym for the "free" (taxes pay for it) Canadian health care system, sentenced her to burn at the stake by putting her on a waiting list ...
Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections
Post Date: 2009-10-29 19:05:56 by scrapper2
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The Government's drug rationing watchdog says "therapeutic" injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known. Instead the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is ordering doctors to offer patients remedies like acupuncture and osteopathy. Specialists fear tens of thousands of people, mainly the elderly and frail, will be left to suffer excruciating levels of pain or pay as much as £500 each for private treatment. The NHS currently issues more than 60,000 treatments of steroid injections every year. NICE ...
Patients with suspected cancer forced to wait so NHS targets can be hit:Patients rushed to hospital with suspected cancer are having their treatment delayed so that managers can meet Government targets, an NHS investigation has found
Post Date: 2009-10-29 18:57:57 by scrapper2
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People arriving at Accident and Emergency departments with symptoms which could indicate the aggressive spread of the disease are waiting weeks for diagnosis and treatment while “routine” cases are prioritised. Hospital managers told researchers that treating desperately sick patients more quickly would “reflect badly” on their performance against Government cancer targets which only cover those referred to specialists by GPs. Doctors, patients groups and politicians were appalled by what one described as a “breathtaking admission” which confirmed their “very worst fears” about how far the NHS target culture has gone in distorting clinical ...
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