Gift cards for birth control? Foes say bah humbug!
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Christmas for many is the season of giving. At Planned Parenthood of Indiana, it’s about giving the gift of health care and contraception.
The network of 35 health centers across Indiana has begun offering holiday gift certificates for basic health care services “or the recipient’s choice of birth control method,” it announced this week.
Nearly 800,000 Indiana residents Read the rest of this entry »
As this newspaper reported Tuesday, University Hospital officials “went into damage control mode” this week following a scathing report on the institution by The New York Times.
That’s certainly understandable; they have reason to be upset. For one thing, the Times article wrongly implied that a state commission had recommended that University and Crouse merge because of quality of care, when the commission’s recommendations were based only on capacity Read the rest of this entry »
at some point in their lives since the birth control pill’s introduction in the 1960s. But while this form of birth control has made life easier in many ways for women, big questions remain about its safety, especially among women at elevated risk of
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spells out what we know about oral contraceptives’ safety — and how much remains unclear.
Frankly, I find it shocking. After close to half a century of the pill’s use, those gaps in knowledge Read the rest of this entry »
Declining incidence and death rates for some of the nation’s most common cancers mean physicians can take a deep breath, pat themselves on the back and keep up the good work.
It looks like increasing screening rates and encouraging patients to toss out the cigarettes are effective strategies, but more patients should be following through on both, according to the “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005.”
The report, Read the rest of this entry »
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 6 — In obese patients with type 2 diabetes, the ketogenic diet — which stresses high fat and low carbohydrate intake — outperformed its low-glycemic index rival, researchers found.
After six months, improvements in blood glucose control, as measured by hemoglobin A1c, were significantly greater with the ketogenic diet based on the
than with a low-glycemic index, reduced-calorie diet, (–1.5% versus –0.5%,
=0.03), Eric Read the rest of this entry »
Under pressure from people who are “gray” or “blue” because of taking colloidal silver nasal drops, ingesting the product or using it topically to heal wounds, the FDA is preparing to label nano silver products (all of them, not just colloidal silver) as a “pesticide”. Not only that, but ALL nano silver products are included in this movement to reclassify silver. That is odd, considering that Warfarin is NOT banned Read the rest of this entry »
February 17, 2009
A FEDERAL takeover of all health services has been proposed by the
Government’s chief advisory body on health reform, but the health minister has
declined to endorse the move.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon described proposals by the National Health and
Hospitals Reform Commission as ambitious. They include an option to scrap
Medicare and have 14 per cent of wages go to private health funds, which would
provide care for patients. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two television commercials for Bayer AG’s birth control pill Yaz give a misleading impression of its benefits, U.S. health regulators warned the company in a letter released on Tuesday.
The ads wrongly suggest the pills are approved for relieving premenstrual syndrome, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a letter dated October 3. The ads also minimize the drug’s risks, the agency said.
Bayer will stop running the Read the rest of this entry »
The plaintiffs seek to force the government to contact all the subjects of the experiments and give them proper health care.
The experiments have been the subject of congressional hearings, and in 2003 the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released a pamphlet said nearly 7,000 soldiers had been involved and more than 250 chemicals used on them, including hallucinogens such as LSD and PCP as well as biological and chemical agents. Lasting from Read the rest of this entry »
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September 16, 2008
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