(NaturalNews) Vaccinations are modern medicine’s most-favored form of quackery. Even while the bulk of the evidence shows vaccines and flu shots ultimately harm more people than they help, they continue to be pushed by doctors, drug companies and state health authorities. Now you can add pediatricians to that list.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, a group of drug-pushing doctors that claim to care for children, is now demanding that parents get Read the rest of this entry »
Globally, the need for efficiently introducing new pharmaceuticals is
urgent. “Without breakthroughs, we face a
medical tsunami of healthcare costs posing immense economic and social
threats,” stated Dr. Raymond L. Woosley, C-Path’s
president and CEO. “In the United States
alone, the annual cost of caring for patients with just one disease,
Alzheimer’s, is $150 billion, a staggering
figure that Read the rest of this entry »
Finished reading Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger.” I liked it although not as much as Hamsun’s other classic, “Pan.” In “Hunger,” his first novel, Hamsun – a 1920 Norwegian Nobel Laureate in Literature – like Dostoevsky half a century before him – upgraded the fleeting micro-events of human consciousness to the macro level of the observable literary narrative.
“Hunger” – to me – is, on one level, a convulsion of the existential grotesque, and, on another Read the rest of this entry »
Jade Goody has checked out of the London hospital where she was receiving cancer treatment, to prepare for her wedding.
According to Now Magazine the former Big Brother star, who has terminal cervical cancer, left hospital in a wheelchair, still hooked to a morphine drip.
Goody, 27, will be looked after by a home nurse at her Essex house, before she marries 21-year-old Jack Tweed, who was recently released from prison.
Speaking to The Sun, he Read the rest of this entry »
> The family of Adolf Merckle, the German billionaire who committed suicide this week after his business empire cratered during the global financial crisis, plans to sell off generics maker Ratiopharm to generate cash.
> Preparing for hearings with HHS nominee Tom Daschle, lawmakers are fuming about a $1.5 million consulting contract the FDA awarded for morale-boosting.
> The European Commission gave the nod to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ Read the rest of this entry »
New Year, New Round of Diet Programs
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — January is the perennial season for dieting, but in 2009, Americans may feel the pinch in their wallets as acutely as the pinch around their waistlines. “This is going to be the year of the frugal dieter,” said John LaRosa, Research Director of MarketData Enterprises, a Tampa, Fla., market-research firm that tracks the industry. Even so, players in the $60 billion U.S. weight-loss industry Read the rest of this entry »
The latest victim of the economic recession could be your health. According to a recent AARP survey, one in five adults ages 45 and older are suffering health problems due to financial stress. The survey details the health care problems and challenges many Americans are facing because of the current economic situation.
“Right now people are increasingly concerned about their jobs, retirement savings and simply being able to provide for their families Read the rest of this entry »
At Lehigh Regional Medical Center in Lehigh Acres, admissions and surgeries are significantly lower than preceding years, but this parallels the rest of the country. Almost two-thirds or recently surveyed hospitals are reporting the same information with dwindling admissions, less surgery and significant increases in non-paying patients.
People with and without insurance try to avoid hospitalization because of the financial burden it places on the Read the rest of this entry »
, Jett, Tom Cruise is weighing in on the tragedy.
“It’s horrific,” a visibly shaken Cruise said in an interview scheduled to air Friday on ABC’s “The View.” “It’s just horrific. Here you have a man, both of them doting parents, they’re wonderful people and …”
Cruise trailed off before commenting on the speculation that Scientology, the religion to which he and the Travoltas adhere, discourages followers from seeking medical care.
Tune into Read the rest of this entry »
(Dec 10, 2008)
Even though the public school board is planning to build elsewhere, McMaster’s plan for a downtown health centre is as firm as ever — perhaps even firmer — says the dean of the university’s medical school.
“Our agenda has not changed one bit,” said John Kelton, a university vice-president and dean of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. “Our big vision is to build a family health centre, and we want it in downtown Hamilton.” Read the rest of this entry »