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Latest Articles: Health
'Not So Little' Baby Stuns Hospital Staff(the size of a 6 month old at birth)
Post Date: 2008-12-29 23:13:23 by freepatriot32
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(Dec. 29) -- When you're having your baby delivered by Caesarean section, you probably don't want to hear your medical team gasping and exclaiming, "Oh my God!" That's what happened Dec. 23 as Sara Sault gave birth to her son in Laguna Hills, Calif. But there was no reason to worry. Richard Walker Sault was born perfectly healthy. He was just big -- so big that it took took two doctors to lift him from his mother's body. Weighing in at 14 pounds, 2 ounces, Richard is the biggest baby to be delivered at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, according to the Orange County Register. He's already too big for his infant car seat. "We thought our first baby was ...
The Top 10 Health Breakthroughs of 2008
Post Date: 2008-12-29 20:04:55 by christine
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This year marks a major turning point in the theory of wellness and the prevention of disease. The drug-based paradigm of Western medicine is crumbling under the weight of its own massive fraud. New technology is proving how nutrients interact at the fundamental gene level to promote health and prevent disease. The discoveries are occurring at a breakneck pace – these are exciting times. In the face of an obesity epidemic and the early onset of the diseases of aging in even young Americans, there shines a bright ray of hope. It is there for anyone who chooses to inform themselves and then take effective actions to better themselves. The aging clock can be slowed – and in many ...
Hunters in a Farmer's World
Post Date: 2008-12-28 16:55:23 by Turtle
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It was actually 25 years ago when we were running this community for abused kids, and I got it that there was something different about the kids who came in to our program with this label of hyperactivity or hyperkinesis. It was the majority of the kids who came into the program, actually. In fact, frankly, in the first year or so I can’t remember one kid who didn’t come in with that as one of many diagnoses. They didn’t call it ADHD back then, it was called hyperkinesis, the hyperkinetic syndrome, the hyperactive syndrome, minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction; MBD was the acronym that was used back then. There was no pharmaceutical cure for it, they were ...
* News * Society * International aid and development Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better
Post Date: 2008-12-28 14:13:29 by PSUSA
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Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better Professor pioneers DIY adjustable glasses that do not need an optician * Esther Addley * The Guardian, Monday 22 December 2008 It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 ("in the afternoon, as I recall") that first started Josh Silver on his quest to make the world's poor see. A professor of physics at Oxford University, Silver was idly discussing optical lenses with a colleague, wondering whether they might be adjusted without the need for expensive specialist equipment, when the lightbulb of inspiration first flickered above his head. What if it were possible, he thought, to make a pair of ...
That Thing Called Feminism
Post Date: 2008-12-27 16:47:49 by farmfriend
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That Thing Called Feminism Written by Selwyn Duke Friday, 26 December 2008 22:58 Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree, and sometimes that's a good thing. You may not know the name Rebecca Walker, but she is a woman who learned, in a very harsh way, the often stark difference between theory and fact. She is the daughter of The Color Purple author Alice Walker, a militant feminist who, in deference to her belief that children enslave women, treated Rebecca as a burdensome cross. The younger Walker discussed her feminist-model upbringing in a May 2008 Daily Mail piece entitled "How my mother's fanatical views tore us apart." She recounts how her mother ...
Calif. teen's family sues Cigna over transplant
Post Date: 2008-12-26 21:10:59 by freepatriot32
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LOS ANGELES – The family of a 17-year-old leukemia patient has sued health insurance giant Cigna Corp. for her death in 2007 after the company initially refused to pay for a liver transplant. The lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court by the family's attorney, Mark Geragos, alleges breach of contract, unfair business practices and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit accuses Cigna of delaying and rejecting valid claims, which resulted in the wrongful death of Nataline Sarkisyan. The Philadelphia-based insurer eventually approved the transplant after Sarkisyan's family held a rally outside Cigna's suburban Los Angeles office. ...
Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards
Post Date: 2008-12-26 03:02:49 by HOUNDDAWG
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KINGSTON, Tenn. — What may be the nation’s largest spill of coal ash lay thick and largely untouched over hundreds of acres of land and waterways Wednesday after a dam broke this week, as officials and environmentalists argued over its potential toxicity. A Tennessee Valley Authority employee surveyed a home on Tuesday. Federal studies have long shown coal ash to contain significant quantities of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium, which can cause cancer and neurological problems. But with no official word on the dangers of the sludge in Tennessee, displaced residents spent Christmas Eve worried about their health and their property, and wondering what to do. The ...
Turtle Gets New Girlfriend for Christmas
Post Date: 2008-12-25 18:35:40 by Turtle
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Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D3?
Post Date: 2008-12-25 11:55:48 by christine
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For those of you who are regular readers of this newsletter, you know how I feel about vitamin D3. For those of you who are reading the newsletter for the first time, I have to simply state, "I love vitamin D3". I just can't say enough about it. I just did a Medline (National Library of Medicine) search on vitamin D and came up with over 44,000 articles/studies. Just to review some of the latest data: There was an article1 published in the December 2008 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looking at vitamin D levels in the U.S. population, comparing it from 1988 – 1994 to 2000 – 2004. The information was gleaned from periodic surveys that have been ...
Obama planning billion-dollar 'bailout' for abortion industry
Post Date: 2008-12-23 19:45:23 by Old Friend
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A pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama's planned $1.5 billion "bailout" of the abortion industry. Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. The report, titled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration," also calls for a 133-percent increase in funding for the Title X program, which funds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. ...
Texas Boy Survives Near Decapitation
Post Date: 2008-12-21 20:10:36 by freepatriot32
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Dec. 21) - A Hillsboro, Texas, boy who suffered an "orthopedic decapitation" when he was involved in a car accident three months ago has staged an amazing recovery, according to cbs11tv.com. Nine-year-old Jordan Taylor's head was almost completely detached from his body after a dump truck ran through a stop sign and hit a car he was riding in. "There was no connection between the bones of the neck and the head," said Cook Children Medical Center's Dr. Richard Roberts. Fortunately, Roberts was able to reconnect Jordan's head to his neck with a metal plate, screws and titanium rods. Now it appears Jordan, who had been given a one to two percent chance of ...
The Right Brain vs Left Brain
Post Date: 2008-12-19 23:08:20 by Old Friend
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http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5687820,00.gif The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it. LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling "big picture" oriented imagination rules ...
Fags are the new Niggers
Post Date: 2008-12-18 11:39:35 by Old Friend
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Back in the 1950's Blacks were the most discriminated group in the country. People called them niggers and claimed that blacks were both lazy & stupid while at the same time ingenious in their ability to get out of work and tireless in their pursuit of white women. That these claims contradicted each other didn't occur to most people because Blacks were different and we were sure that they were not like us, in fact, many right wingers were sure that if Blacks weren't kept separate from whites that this would inevitably lead to the destruction of America as we know it. Eventually as the decades passed we learned that Blacks weren't so different from everyone else and that ...
The Growing War Between Modern Medicine and the Public
Post Date: 2008-12-16 15:20:55 by christine
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Everybody is talking about health-care reform, but true reform is clearly out of the question. Like the banks and the automobile manufacturers, the health-care system should be allowed to collapse without a government bailout. But the federal government has been bailing out the failed health-care industry all along. Tom Daschle, the newly appointed health policy adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, and soon to be Health and Human Services secretary, says the U.S. health-care system is in need of a major overhaul, and most agree, but it appears the government will continue to expand insurance coverage for a broken health-care system, paying for more unproven and even disproven ...
Lack of Vitamin D Ups Heart Risk
Post Date: 2008-12-16 10:51:29 by christine
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NaturalNews) Vitamin D deficiency has long been linked with weak muscles and bones. Now research shows a lack of the "sunshine" vitamin may also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). In fact, evidence is mounting from numerous studies that low vitamin D levels could play a role in a host of CVD risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. What's more, a lack of the vitamin may be a direct factor in cardiovascular events, including stroke and congestive heart failure. In a review article just published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), James H. O'Keefe, M.D., cardiologist and director of Preventive Cardiology at ...
Why We Should Let Our Children Play With Toy Guns
Post Date: 2008-12-16 07:01:51 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! This week a 13 year old boy was found hiding a semi-automatic pistol in his cellar - but toy guns don't make the real thing more enticing Boy dressed as a cowboy Simon Crompton The papers this week were full of anxiety about young boys running wild. A poll for Barnardos found that 53 per cent of adults were worried that children were beginning to behave like animals, and that something had to be done about it. In the same week, The Times published a life-size picture of a semi- automatic pistol that had been hidden in the cellar by a schoolboy, 13, who had become increasingly lured into the gangland culture of South London. Chilling as this story was, the gun ...
A Toke a Day Keeps Memory Loss at Bay
Post Date: 2008-12-16 06:55:01 by Turtle
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Turns out a few dances with Mary Jane can do wonders for an aging brain. Yes, a daily toke in later-middle and old age can help slow memory loss, or the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests. It's a pre-emptive strike, one not effective at reversing previous memory loss. But aging boomers still shouldn't go overboard, researchers say. In tests on lab rats, all it took was the equivalent of one human puff. "We are not trying to make anyone high," said Gary Wenk, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State University. "We are trying to tease out the positive aspects of this plant." The ...
X-15 is gonna get bent over next month....
Post Date: 2008-12-15 21:50:44 by X-15
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...I'm having a colonoscopy done at age 47. If you are 50 or have a family history of colon cancer (my dad died at 63 from it) then get it over with. My younger brother had his second one done recently, and he had polyps both times, moving him into a more frequent cycle of colonoscopy's. It's a very preventable cancer with early screening via colonoscopy. Click for Full Text!
Heart-warming news: Aussie doctor claims he's created the world's healthiest wine that cleans out the arteries
Post Date: 2008-12-15 13:14:05 by Rotara
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It's the news that everyone who appreciates a glass of wine wants to hear - an Australian doctor and vineyard owner says he has created the world's healthiest drop which reduces the risk of heart attack as you drink it.As the shiraz or the special chardonnay - a white that has always been said to have little benefit - runs through the body, it cleans the blood vessels and helps keep arteries free of fatty deposits.Too good to be true? Medical doctor Phillip Norrie says it is true, insisting that his newly-created reds and whites act as a 'vascular pipe-cleaner', ensuring that fatty deposits in blood vessels known as atherosclerotic plaque are washed away. Dr Norrie says his ...
Dutch murder rate almost six times United States (A little problem with Socialized Medicine)
Post Date: 2008-12-15 02:58:38 by Rotara
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Title: Dutch murder rate almost six times United States (A little problem with Socialized Medicine) Source: Google Groups-MindSpring Enterprises URL Source: http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.guns/msg/fd8f0e97a3de3595? dmode=source Published: Dec 14, 2008 Author: William A. Levinson Post Date: 2008-12-14 19:57:31 by GarySpFc 5 Comments The Netherlands, like most other European countries, has very strict gun control laws. Nonetheless, the Dutch murder rate is almost six times as great as the United States' overall homicide rate. An estimated 5,981 people -- an average of 16 a day -- were killed by their doctors without their consent… And these numbers do not measure ...
Swedish Officials Investigating Nobel Prize Board
Post Date: 2008-12-14 10:14:31 by christine
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The Nobel Prize Committee is facing criminal investigation of bribery and corruption after allegedly taking huge payments from a pharmaceutical company that directly benefits from the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner in medicine. The astonishing scandal, being reported in the European trade press and conspicuously absent from Sweden's major daily newspapers, surfaced just days before the internationally renowned awards were presented in Stockholm on Wednesday. According to Swedish trade journal Dagens Medicin, two Nobel-affiliated corporations -- Nobel Media and Nobel Webb -- are accused of taking "many millions" of dollars from Swedish-American pharmaceutical ...
Plant-based cancer vaccine
Post Date: 2008-12-14 07:05:46 by Tatarewicz
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Russian scientists are genetically modifying an Australian wild tobacco plant with bacterial DNA to produce an anti-cancer vaccine which is much less costly than individually-tailored vaccines derived from animal sources. The bacteria transmits a DNA fragment into herbal cells to produce the required medication which glows under special light when ready for extraction. According to Yury Dorokhov of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Moscow the resultant medication targets and destroys malignant cells. It is awaiting tests on mice and if successful will be offered first to breast cancer patients. MORE at link Click for Full Text!
We All Failed Gary Webb
Post Date: 2008-12-13 06:59:36 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Share this article Bookmark Digg!Digg emailEmail printPrinter friendly And each time I’ve written one of those stories, I have received e-mails attacking my acceptance of the fact that Webb committed suicide on the night of Dec. 9, 2004. Some people want to believe that he was really assassinated by the CIA or some other government ...
France abuzz over alcoholic 'cure'
Post Date: 2008-12-12 15:30:49 by scrapper2
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An eminent French cardiologist has triggered an impassioned debate in the medical world over his claim to have discovered a cure for alcoholism. Dr Olivier Ameisen, 55, one of France's top heart specialists, says he overcame his own addiction to alcohol by self-administering doses of a muscle-relaxant called baclofen. He has now written a book about his experience - Le Dernier Verre (The Last Glass) - in which he calls for clinical trials to test his theory that baclofen suppresses the craving for drink. Widespread media coverage of his book in France has led to a rush of demands from alcoholics for similar treatment, and some doctors have reported unexpected successes after ...
Ashcroft: Maybe I make better decisions on morphine
Post Date: 2008-12-12 07:10:22 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, in an entirely under-reported November interview, claimed that he makes the best decisions "when I have a lot of morphine in my system." In a conversation with Fora TV, Ashcroft was confronted with a question about a March 2004 incident, in which the former AG was visited by his would-be successor as he lay sedated in a hospital bed. Ashcroft was asked by Gonzales to re-authorize a controversial domestic spying program, over the objections of Ashcroft's deputy, James Comey. He refused to reverse the Justice Department's decision, sparking a power struggle which saw the White House re-authorize its own program ...
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