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Latest Articles: Health
Swine Flu Pandemic Paradox Kills Few, Overwhelms ICUs
Post Date: 2009-08-24 11:35:00 by Brian S
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Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu filled up Geoff Shaw’s intensive care unit in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, forcing some surgeries to be canceled as the hospital struggled to cope. As winter moves to the Northern Hemisphere, health officials from Chicago to London brace for a similar overload. “We have run out of bed space, we have run out of nurses,” Shaw, 47, said after working in the ICU and being on- call for 185 hours over 11 days. “There will be people who die because they were denied access to other treatments.” Health officials call it the swine flu paradox. As the new H1N1 strain spreads, the majority of patients recover within days and the ...
Codex Alimentarius Threatens Human Health
Post Date: 2009-08-24 06:03:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Codex Alimentarius (CA) Threatens Human Health - by Stephen Lendman On its web site, CA (Latin for food code) says: "The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN) and WHO (World Health Organization) to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations." Whatever its founding ...
"They" are preparing are you?
Post Date: 2009-08-23 22:46:20 by Zenmaster
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One may want to bear witness to what is not being said in our "free press" Ha..Ha...Ha....but that is a completely different situation... But I found this very interesting and the subject matters even more interesting... Swine Flu Epidemic... p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktWhb_9kC84 http://www.cesa.net/DOCS/08192009.PDF Respectfully, Zenmaster
Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.
Post Date: 2009-08-23 22:42:50 by farmfriend
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Magnesium is the Underrated Master Mineral (Good info)
Post Date: 2009-08-23 20:49:01 by christine
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Magnesium is a very underrated, virtually ignored mineral for our diets, yet it is the most crucial and essential to over 300 bodily biochemical and cellular metabolic processes. It has been called the "Master Mineral" because of its central importance to so many cellular functions and proper body glucose balance. Because of poor topsoil conditions and poor eating habits, almost everyone is magnesium deficient to some extent. The mineral that gets the most attention for supplementation is calcium. Yet without magnesium, calcium synthesis into bones and teeth is drastically impaired. Cardiovascular and neurological issues are also prone to surface. It's estimated that most ...
Johann Hari: Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason
Post Date: 2009-08-23 17:33:33 by tom007
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Johann Hari: Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason
How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Sarah Palin really has claimed ? with a straight face ? that Barack Obama wants to kill her baby
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Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarised by the comedian Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital."
The election of Obama – a black man with an anti-conservative message – as a successor to George W. Bush has scrambled the core American right's view of their ...
Going with the wind [Wind Turbine Syndrome]
Post Date: 2009-08-23 10:06:26 by DeaconBenjamin
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An article in the Nikkei recently may well spell trouble for the fledgling alternative energy industry—and particularly for the wind power generation sector, where most energy investment has taken place in Japan. Apparently residents in the town of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, have petitioned a wind turbine farm operator (Nikkei doesn’t mention who) to close down their plant in the evening hours—on the basis that low frequency noise emanating from the wind farm is causing residents in the area serious health problems. According to the formal complaint, the residents have said that in the 18 months since the plant went into operation, those people living withing 1-2-km of ...
Medicaid expansion lost in debate - State policymakers fear massive tax hike to fund it.
Post Date: 2009-08-23 09:36:19 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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A big component of President Obama and congressional Democrats' plans to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance is a massive expansion of Medicaid coverage to low-income adults making less than $14,404 a year. But the proposed Medicaid expansion has become somewhat lost in the national debate about whether the federal government should set up a public insurance plan to compete with the private sector. The U.S. House version of the current health care reform legislation would expand Medicaid to people making up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level; the Senate bill goes further, to 150 percent. In Missouri, the current income cap is 20 percent, or $292 a month ...
To save lives, an Indian doctor rethinks the toilet
Post Date: 2009-08-23 09:11:41 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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STOCKHOLM (AFP) – By rethinking the humble toilet, Indian sanitation expert Bindeshwar Pathak has found a way that can save water -- and lives -- in developing countries. For four decades, His Sulabh Sanitation Movement has equipped more than 1.2 million households with eco-friendly toilets and installed 7,500 public lavatories across India. Yet almost three out of four Indians, or around 700 million people, still have no access to basic sanitation. This leads to up to half a million deaths each year, Pathak, 66, told AFP at the World Water Week conference in Stockholm, where he was awarded this year's Stockholm Water Prize for his groundbreaking work. To lower the risk to ...
Lyndon LaRouche, Holocaust Imagery & the Health Care Debate
Post Date: 2009-08-22 18:23:59 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Lyndon LaRouche, Holocaust Imagery & the Health Care Debate Posted: August 21, 2009 Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a fringe political cult that defies categorization, and his supporters have contributed to the divisiveness surrounding the public debate on health care reform by producing and disseminating materials comparing President Barack Obama and other government officials to Hitler, Nazis and fascists, and by attending Congressional "town hall" meeting and other events around the country. LaRouche's organization is built upon a cadre of loyal supporters and publications that promote his conspiratorial world views. LaRouche, 86, has a long record ...
No Side Effects So Far in Trial of Swine Flu Shot
Post Date: 2009-08-22 14:12:21 by Brian S
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Published: August 21, 2009 There have been no serious side effects from the first set of injections of the new swine flu vaccine, federal health officials said Friday in predicting that nearly 200 million doses could be produced by year’s end. Clinical trials in adults began on Aug. 7, and those in children on Wednesday. “There are no red flags regarding safety,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is overseeing the trials. Because the only side effects in adults were sore arms, which are typical of any flu shot, trials on children were able to begin, and those in pregnant women are expected to begin ...
Protecting the Fair’s Prize Pig From the Swine Flu
Post Date: 2009-08-21 22:14:53 by TwentyTwelve
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Protecting the Fair’s Prize Pig From the Swine Flu Justin Maxon/The New York Times State fairs around the country, like the one in Des Moines, put more rules on contact with pigs. By MONICA DAVEY Published: August 21, 2009 When the Oregon State Fair opens next week, the pigs will be kept behind an elaborate configuration of plastic and ribbon barriers, taller-than-usual fences and off-limits walkways. The state veterinarian is also urging visitors to stay six feet away. Todd Hofsaess, right, sanitizing his hands with his son Colton Hofsaess, 3, left of center, after viewing piglets in Des Moines. More Photos » The worry? The spread of swine flu, but with a twist: state ...
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
Post Date: 2009-08-21 11:57:46 by X-15
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In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal "cradle-to-grave" healthcare coverage, to be accomplished through the complete socialization of medicine. The "right to health" became a "constitutional right" of Soviet citizens. The proclaimed advantages of this system were that it would "reduce costs" and eliminate the "waste" that stemmed from "unnecessary duplication and parallelism" — i.e., competition. These goals were similar to the ones declared by Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi — attractive and humane goals of universal coverage and low costs. What's not to like? The system had many decades ...
Baxter Applies for H1N1 Vaccine Patent One-Year Prior to Outbreak
Post Date: 2009-08-21 10:03:25 by bush_is_a_moonie
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In recent preliminary reports published on the internet, Baxter Healthcare Corporation applied for a patent for the vaccine that would immunize the H1N1 Swine Flu. In August 2007, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, the company developing the swine flu vaccination, applied for a patent on many vaccines including H1N1 Swine Flu. After the application was leaked on the World Wide Web by a United Kingdom publication, justoneclickgroup, it showed that the company also applied for patents to other diseases: “In particular preferred embodiments the composition orvaccine comprises more than one antigen…..such as influenza A and influenza B in particular selected from of one or more of the ...
The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform - Private Insurers and Big PhRMA
Post Date: 2009-08-21 05:55:55 by Stephen Lendman
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The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform: Private Insurers and Big PhRMA - by Stephen Lendman In almost the same breath on August 17, the White House effectively dropped a real public option (that likely never existed) while Obama was telling the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) that the Pentagon will escalate the Afghanistan/Pakistan war into a long-term conflict that will assure "more difficult days ahead." He did so in defiance of international and Constitutional law, the lives and welfare of American forces, millions in both target countries, and lied at the same time saying: "This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity" in plain contradiction of the fact ...
Prescription Drugs Kill 300% More Americans than Illegal Drugs
Post Date: 2009-08-20 18:54:11 by freepatriot32
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A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death. An analysis of 168,900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal drugs as by cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines put together. According to state law enforcement officials, this is a sign of a burgeoning prescription drug abuse problem. “The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.” In 2007, was responsible for 843 deaths, ...
Who’s crazy now?
Post Date: 2009-08-20 17:38:50 by Original_Intent
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Every couple of decades or so, psychiatrists publish their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which functions as the instruction booklet for their profession. The manual always attracts its fair share of mockery, and the last one was no exception. That 886-page volume, published in 1994, famously included snoring (“Breathing-Related Sleep Disorder’’; DSM code 780.59), smoking (“Nicotine Dependence’’; 305.10), quitting smoking (“Nicotine Withdrawal’’; 292.0), and jet lag among the nation’s mental disorders. One writer called it “a naked land grab by a profession threatened with marginalization by biomedical ...
Healthy food obsession sparks rise in new eating disorder
Post Date: 2009-08-20 16:30:50 by Original_Intent
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Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating. The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated. The condition was named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, and is described as a "fixation on righteous eating". Until a few years ago, there were so few sufferers that doctors usually included them under the catch-all label of "Ednos" – eating disorders not otherwise recognised. Now, experts say, orthorexics take up such a significant ...
August 20, Indiana: Confirmed Pandemic HN1 Flu Cases
Post Date: 2009-08-20 16:12:30 by sizzlerguy
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The Indiana State Department of Health reports there has been a total of 317 confirmed cases of the pandemic H1N1 influenza in the state, including four deaths, in 2009. State health officials say every flu season has the potential to cause a lot of illnesses, doctor's visits, hospitizations and deaths. The Indiana State Health Department is concerned the new H1N1 flu virus could potentially result in a severe flu season this year. "Vaccines are the best tool we have to prevent influenza," said State Health Commissioner Judy Monroe, M.D. "I urge the public start to go out and get vaccinated against seasonal influenza as soon as vaccines become available at their ...
August 20, Indiana: Confirmed Pandemic H1N1 Flu Cases
Post Date: 2009-08-20 16:11:54 by sizzlerguy
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The Indiana State Department of Health reports there has been a total of 317 confirmed cases of the pandemic H1N1 influenza in the state, including four deaths, in 2009.
State health officials say every flu season has the potential to cause a lot of illnesses, doctor's visits, hospitizations and deaths. The Indiana State Health Department is concerned the new H1N1 flu virus could potentially result in a severe flu season this year.
"Vaccines are the best tool we have to prevent influenza," said State Health Commissioner Judy Monroe, M.D. "I urge the public start to go out and get vaccinated against seasonal influenza as soon as vaccines become available at their doctor's offices and ...
First Case Of Pigs Catching Swine Flu From Humans Reported In Alberta
Post Date: 2009-08-20 12:53:44 by Brian S
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Vancouver – Hundreds of pigs at an Alberta farm came down with Swine Flu in the first reported incident since the outbreak of the flu in humans, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced. The fear now is that exports of Canadian pork could be affected even though both the Canadian Food Inspection agency and the World Health Organization emphasize it is safe to eat well-cooked pork. The Swine Flu in pigs was caused by a man who returned from a trip to Mexico. Authorities said the pigs developed symptoms after the man came back to work. “Preliminary testing conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) indicates the presence of H1N1 flu virus in a swine herd in ...
The War On Obesity and Social Conflict
Post Date: 2009-08-20 06:28:49 by Ada
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Obesity has become a threat to the nation, we are told. "Obesity is depleting our nation's pocketbook and devastating the health and wellness of millions of Americans," says Dr. Clyde Yancy of the American Heart Association. "Left unaddressed, the obesity epidemic will undermine our country's health, reduce our productivity and threaten our economic security." Yancy’s warnings appear at the conservative Washington Times. The notion that the rotund hordes present a national problem crying for a national solution is becoming mainstream. If you Google around, you’ll see calls for Congressional action to take on American flab on a nearly daily basis, and ...
New poll finds that 39 percent of Americans want government to ‘stay out of Medicare.’
Post Date: 2009-08-19 22:12:56 by tom007
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New poll finds that 39 percent of Americans want government to ‘stay out of Medicare.’ As ThinkProgress has noted before, conservatives have frequently obscured the fact that Medicare is a government-run single-payer program. Constituents appearing at health care town halls have even demanded that their members of Congress keep their “government hands off of Medicare.” Now, a new Public Policy Polling poll finds that millions of Americans do not realize that the federal government runs Medicare: One poll question indicative of how difficult it is to gain public understanding on a complicated issue asked if respondents thought the government should ‘stay out of ...
Universal healthcare's dirty little secrets
Post Date: 2009-08-19 11:33:21 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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AS THEY TACK left and right state by state, the Democratic presidential contenders can't agree on much. But one cause they all support — along with Republicans such as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and California's own Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — is universal health coverage. And all of them are wrong. What these politicians and many other Americans fail to understand is that there's a big difference between universal coverage and actual access to medical care. Simply saying that people have health insurance is meaningless. Many countries provide universal insurance but deny critical procedures to patients who need them. Britain's Department of Health ...
A Hard Lesson About Socialized Medicine
Post Date: 2009-08-19 11:30:43 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Europeans are now learning some hard facts of life about socialized medicine: there's no such thing as a free lunch. The question is whether Congress will learn from Europe's mistakes as it takes the next steps in reforming the American health care system. For many years advocates of government-run health care pointed to Europe as an ideal, noting that America was the "only industrialized country without a national health care system." Now, however, the European welfare states are slashing benefits in the face of rising health care costs. A recent front-page story in the New York Times detailed the European cutbacks. According to the article, Britain, France and Germany ...
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