Archive for the 'Health and Medicine' Category
“Obama’s Doctor Knocks ObamaCare”
Snipped from Forbes.com.
“It’s nonsense that the private insurance companies need to be protected,” he says. “Why? Because they’ve done such a good job?” quips Dr. Scheiner, President Obama’s former physician.
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Are You Insured? Think Again!
Snipped from LATimes.com.
I was shocked by an article I read today regarding what health insurance companies are doing to increase profits at the expense of unknowing policy holders.
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A System From Hell
How a Medical Crisis Put a Family in Financial Ruin
Snipped from TheNation.com.
This story is a must read. It covers a personal account of how a family ended up in financial ruin because of America’s broken and profit-centered health care.
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Health Alert: Stop Peeing In the Water!
Drink up!
Don’t pee in the water? Let’s get real. You have to pee and you have to … well, you know, in the toilet. And, therein, Stan Nodvik says, is the major source of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water, in our lakes and rivers, and, of course, in the oceans.
How so? Well, Stan says no drug in pill or capsule or liquid form, including those vitamins, is completely absorbed by the human body. If someone takes, for example, an antidepressant like wellbutrin, then what excess of bupropion beyond what the body/mind needs is voided either as urine or feces.
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Pope Solves Africa’s HIV/AIDS Crisis!
Snipped from BBC.co.uk.
Pope Benedict XVI, known for his brilliant mind and progressive policies, has spoken to the African population about their frightening HIV/AIDS crisis. In what was expected to be a speech rooted in age old religious fervor and ridged conservative policy, was instead a speech that was sharply insightful, objective and, from what many epidemiologists are saying, is surely to rid the continent with this horrifying disease within about 10 years.
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“Widespread Tamiflu Resistance” … What Next?
Snipped from SciAm.com.
Remember back in the day when we only had to worry about antibiotic resistant bacteria? Well, now we can start worrying about antiviral resistant viruses. That’s right, our war on viruses is going about as smoothly as our war on bacteria. In other words, we are losing this battle as well. If you are unfamiliar with our war on bacteria, read this post from a couple of weeks back.
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