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Is Obama Punking Us?
Post Date: 2009-08-09 12:34:56 by abraxas
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Is Obama Punking Us? By FRANK RICH Published: August 8, 2009 “AUGUST is a challenging time to be president,” said Andrew Card, the former Bush White House chief of staff, as he offered unsolicited advice to his successors in a television interview last week. “I think you have to expect the unexpected.” He should know. Thursday was the eighth anniversary of “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” the President’s Daily Brief that his boss ignored while on vacation in Crawford. Aug. 29 marks the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s strike on the Louisiana coast, which his boss also ignored while on vacation in Crawford. So do have a blast in ...
Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan
Post Date: 2009-08-08 23:05:42 by abraxas
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Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: August 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday. The unusually large scale of the industry’s commitment to the cause helps explain some of a contentious back-and-forth playing out in recent days between the odd-couple allies over a deal that the White House struck with the industry in June to secure its support. The terms of the deal were not fully disclosed. Both ...
UK Girl, two, dies after swine flu misdiagnosis
Post Date: 2009-08-08 07:18:57 by DeaconBenjamin
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The parents of a two-year-old girl thought to have died from meningitis after they were told she was suffering from swine flu said yesterday that she had been "failed by the system". Georgia Keeling, from Norwich, died after being rushed to hospital on Tuesday. Her parents, Paul Sewell, 21, and Tasha Keeling, 22, said they contacted health services, including NHS Direct, the swine flu helpline and the emergency services, five times after their daughter first developed a temperature on Saturday. The couple said that by Tuesday she had also developed a rash, bruising and had been sick, but their concerns that she might have meningitis were ignored. They said that on two ...
Swine Flu Scare for Shelter, Safety, and Sanitation [Enemy Combatants beware]
Post Date: 2009-08-08 00:05:58 by Tax Pro Tester 2
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I received an e-mail about the real or contrived Flu Pandemic that may sweep the northern hemisphere this Fall. I found the subject matter and the take on what may transpire to be quite an interesting perspective. Conspiracy theorists will love this one. I have added references to the topics discussed in the e-mail in the form of hyperlinks. Here's the e-mail I received. I have decided to title it: Swine Flu Scare for Shelter, Safety and Sanitation [Begin e-mail]Hi friends, I had a revelation the other day about this Swine Flu scare.Who are the people that will most likely refuse government orders to get in line and receive a mandatory Swine Flu shot? Or check in at one of the many ...
To Pay for Health Care, Treat Aging
Post Date: 2009-08-07 20:56:33 by tom007
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To Pay for Health Care, Treat Aging * By Brandon Keim Email Author * August 7, 2009 | * 2:07 pm | * Categories: Government, Health, Medicine * nursinghome As politicians try to reform a health care system that could swallow one-fifth of the nation’s economic output by 2020, they should consider making a small bet with a potentially huge payoff: research that could slow the process of aging. “There will never be enough money for the federal government to pay for the demands of health care, because of chronic age-related diseases,” said Doug Wallace, a cell biologist at the University of California, Irvine. Wallace specializes in mitochondria — cellular power plants ...
Study finds unusual suspect in lung cancer risk
Post Date: 2009-08-07 11:54:30 by Horse
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For years I've told you that the link between smoking and cancer has been exaggerated, and I'm not surprised to see that there's another danger factor here that's got nothing to do with lighting up. Researchers at the University of Montreal were stunned to find that that women who had undergone hysterectomies, or had otherwise had menopause medically induced were almost twice as likely to develop lung cancer as women who had gone through "the changes" naturally. Ironically, the study began as a quest to find a link between lung cancer and hormones in women. Can you imagine a worse situation? You have a hysterectomy or get your ovaries removed for whatever reason, ...
Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash
Post Date: 2009-08-07 09:33:14 by tom007
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Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash Aug 5th, 2009 | By Charles Hugh Smith | Category: Economics, Featured leadimage The expansion of health insurance and government entitlements created “free money” and thus the explosion of healthcare costs. The solution is simple and “impossible”: we all pay cash. Here’s why healthcare (a.k.a. sick-care) costs cannot be reduced; the entire system is based on vast pools of “free money.” The corporate-America or union/government employee who goes to the doctor pays a few dollars for a visit and drugs; the “real cost” is of no concern. Ditto the “real costs” charged to Medicare and Medicaid. The ...
The Health Insurers Have Already Won: How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit
Post Date: 2009-08-07 06:40:01 by Kamala
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Cover Story August 6, 2009, 5:00PM EST text size: TT The Health Insurers Have Already Won: How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit By Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more of the battle than most people realize is already over. The likely victors are insurance giants such as UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), and WellPoint (WLP). The carriers have succeeded in redefining the terms of the reform debate to such a degree that no matter what specifics emerge ...
Revenge of an Unloved Man
Post Date: 2009-08-07 00:08:17 by your_neighbor
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"Starved for Love" are the words that best describe Geoge Sodini, 48, who Tuesday shot up a Pittsburgh fitness class murdering three women and maiming nine others. He left a poignant self-portrait on line that shows that although he was successful, owned a house and was physically presentable, socially he was a failure. He had painted himself into a psychological corner and there was no one, male or female, to free him. He had worked as a software developer for a large Pittsburgh law firm for ten years, had just received a raise, and liked his boss. "Most people there are OK and I would never have a shoot 'em up there." He had not had sex for 19 years. "There ...
Crowd Against a Government Takeover of Health Care -- Specter Booed
Post Date: 2009-08-06 20:02:33 by farmfriend
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Crowd Against a Government Takeover of Health Care -- Specter Booed Written by Larry Greenley Monday, 03 August 2009 15:12 As Yogi Berra, the Yankee's great catcher, said in the 1960s, "it's deja vu all over again." What happened to President Obama's comprehensive health care reform proposal in July 2009 resembles what happened to President Bush's amnesty for illegal immigrants proposal in June 2007. Back in June 2007, President Bush's amnesty proposal was met with such a firestorm of opposition that it stalled completely in the Senate and had to be abandoned. Of course, Obama's health care proposal is not completely dead in the water ... yet. The ...
Novartis starts (human) testing swine flu vaccine
Post Date: 2009-08-06 08:36:54 by Jethro Tull
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LONDON – Swiss drugmaker Novartis has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people in the company's first human tests, a spokesman said Wednesday. The vaccine is being tested in a yearlong trial of 6,000 people of all ages in Britain, Germany and the United States, Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff told The Associated Press, adding that the vaccine will likely be on the market before the trial finishes. A person in Britain became the first to get the swine flu vaccine about 10 days ago, he said. Sanofi-Pasteur, which makes about 40 percent of the world's flu vaccines, expects to start testing its swine flu vaccine within days in the U.S. and Europe, according to spokesman ...
Grassley: Ted Kennedy would die if there was universal health care
Post Date: 2009-08-06 06:44:54 by Ada
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Ted Kennedy, the Democratic Party patriarch suffering from a brain tumor, would be allowed to die under a universal health care scheme because his health care services would be "rationed" to a younger person, says Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). As the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley is a major player in Congressional negotiations on health care. He told Iowa radio station KCJJ that Kennedy's advanced age -- the Massachusetts senator is 77 -- means that under a universal health care system, the senator would be denied treatment for his brain tumor. Grassley stated: I’ve been told that the brain tumor that Sen. Kennedy has — because ...
Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents
Post Date: 2009-08-05 14:22:37 by Brian S
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(NaturalNews) To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in those vaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them.Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines (including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseased flesh of African Green Monkeys. This is revealed in U.S. patent No. 5911998 - Method of producing a virus vaccine from an ...
Real Health Care Reform - Universal Single Payer
Post Date: 2009-08-05 05:59:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Real Health Care Reform - Universal Single-Payer Organizations like Physicians for a National Health Program want Americans to have the same system in place in all other Western countries and elsewhere, including Venezuela, South Korea, Japan, Cuba, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. But not in America - the only industrialized country without it despite spending more than double per capita than the other 30 OECD countries and delivering less for it. In a September 2007 report to Congress, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) compared 2004 US health care spending with other OECD countries: -- America then averaged $6,102 per person, well over double ...
Homeland Secretary Napolitano Predicts Severe Flu Epidemic For Fall
Post Date: 2009-08-04 13:56:56 by Brian S
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asserted Tuesday that pandemic flu is likely to flare up soon after schools open in the fall, well before any vaccine is available. Napolitano also acknowledged that there would not be enough pandemic flu vaccine for everyone, at least in the early stages of the flu season. "There will be prioritization of vaccinations," she told members of the USA TODAY editorial board. The flu strain causing the pandemic, a new strain of H1N1 flu that is also known as swine flu, is especially dangerous because it is genetically different from virtually every other known flu virus. As a result, most people are defenseless against it — ...
Flu scare a boon to body-bag sales
Post Date: 2009-08-04 13:07:09 by abraxas
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Flu scare a boon to body-bag sales Pandemic fears creating customers far and wide for Toronto company's sombre product line Aug 01, 2009 04:30 AM Comments on this story (2) Dave Feschuk Feature Writer As concerns grow of a possible flu pandemic onslaught this autumn, alert authorities worldwide have been stockpiling emergency supplies. Masks, gloves and anti-viral medications are on the list. And body bags. Demand for the latter is prompting a surge of interest in the wares of a small Toronto custom bag manufacturer named Trevor Owen Ltd. Inquiries about its pandemic body bags are pouring in from as far away as the Sultanate of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula. TREVOR OWEN recently ...
'Why Be Afraid of Government?': What Kind of Stupid Question Is That?
Post Date: 2009-08-04 06:44:57 by Ada
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The other day I was perusing CNN’s website when I saw the following commentary link: "Why be afraid of government?" Without hearing a person ask this question it is difficult to know what premise they are taking in regards to the question being asked. Indeed, depending on the questioner’s premise, one would expect certain body language to accompany the posing of such a question, such as a shrugging of the shoulders, or a shaking of the head, or slightly uplifted arms with palms up. The pronunciation or emphasis of certain words in the question would also give clues as to the intended line of discussion by the author or speaker. To just read the question only leaves ...
Antidepressant use doubles in U.S., study finds
Post Date: 2009-08-03 22:36:22 by tom007
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Antidepressant use doubles in U.S., study finds Reuters By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor – Mon Aug 3, 4:01 pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found. "Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans," Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia ...
Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Found Near US-Mexico Border
Post Date: 2009-08-03 19:59:37 by Brian S
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LA JOLLA, Calif. (AFP)--A strain of swine flu that is resistant to treatment with the drug Tamiflu has been discovered near the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pan- American Health Organization said on Monday. "We have found resistance to Tamiflu on the border. We have observed some cases, few to be sure, in El Paso and close to McAllen, Texas," said Maria Teresa Cerqueira, head of the local PAHO office. Cases of A(H1N1) that were resistant to the anti-viral medicine have now been found in the United States, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong and Japan. Experts gathered in La Jolla, Calif., on Monday to discuss the response to the outbreak, said the resistance was likely due to over-use. ...
The United States Does Not Have The Best Health Care System In The World
Post Date: 2009-08-03 18:37:34 by Brian S
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In fact, it's not even close to being the best health care system in the world. Republicans have fought President Obama on every bill he has worked on and health care reform is no exception. Senator Richard Shelby (R), Alabama, said that President Obama's health care plan is the "first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known." Senator Chuck Grassley (R), Iowa, told a constituent in a town hall meeting that if he wanted health insurance to get a job with the government. Perhaps Grassley would like the government to provide 47 million jobs to solve the problem of the uninsured in America. There are several important aspects ...
Vaccination Myths and Truth
Post Date: 2009-08-03 05:58:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Vaccination Myths and Truths - by Stephen Lendman Alan G. Philips is an attorney with the following credentials: -- he's one of the few American lawyers whose practice includes vaccine exemption and waiver issues; -- he advises other attorneys seeking help for their own clients on vaccine exemptions; -- he co-founded Citizens for Healthcare Freedom (CHF) as "a grassroots, nonprofit organization supporting an exciting new Consumer Health Freedom Act in North Carolina" where he lives and practices law; -- he "may be the only attorney in the US with a website dedicated to vaccine exemptions" - vaccinerights.com; -- he authored "The Authoritative Guide to ...
Jefferson County braces for the worst on Monday
Post Date: 2009-08-03 00:33:56 by DeaconBenjamin
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Jefferson County officials earlier this year predicted severely reduced services if the county's financial crisis was left unsolved. That day arrives Monday. Residents face long lines to renew car tags and driver licenses, to record deeds and mortgages, and will wait weeks for an inspector to check development and construction projects. Should a storm rip through the county, damaging highways and bridges, county crews will not be able to make repairs to most roads because the manpower will not be available, department officials said. "It will be catastrophic," Commissioner Jim Carns said. "It will change county government as we have known it up to this point. It will ...
Why a Man Let 2,000 Malaria-Infected Mosquitoes Bite Him
Post Date: 2009-08-02 00:41:45 by freepatriot32
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Some people will go to extreme lengths to avoid mosquito bites. They'll wear long sleeves and pants in the heat of summer, surround themselves with citronella candles and torches, and spray foul-smelling chemicals all over their bodies--or simply not set foot outside when they know the bugs are biting. Stephen Hoffman isn't quite like those people. In fact, he has gone out of his way to get bitten. Years ago, he let 2,000 mosquitoes feast on his arm and inject perhaps 200,000 parasites into his bloodstream. Why? Well, for one thing, it made him immune to malaria. He's also the CEO of Sanaria, a Rockville, Md.-based company that aims to develop and commercialize a malaria ...
Triclosan
Post Date: 2009-07-31 13:41:07 by wudidiz
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Triclosan Products That Contain Triclosan Plain soap as effective as antibacterial but without the risk Skin Treatment Products with Anti-Bacterial Ingredients Can Be Seriously Toxic
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