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Last Updated: Dec 31st, 2009 - 01:49:28 |
Health
Doctors boo Obama in Chicago
By Martha Rosenberg
CHICAGO -- You would have thought it was Wrigley
Field not the Hyatt
Regency Chicago.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:16
Health
No reason to favor private health insurers
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
In the national debate about health care reform,
absolutely nothing makes less sense than the positive views of much of the
public about private health insurers.
Jul 1, 2009, 00:19
Health
Winning and losing the war against AIDS in Africa
By Thomas Mountain
ASMARA, Eritrea -- In 1991, as AIDS was just
beginning to impact Africa, two countries that exemplify how the war against
AIDS in Africa is being won and lost experienced dramatic political
developments.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:19
Health
Hybrid A/H1N1 flu tied to genetic trigger for larger, mutated version
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR previously reported on the genetic manipulation of the 1918 flu from tissue
extracted from an Inuit woman who died from the pandemic in Alaska. On May 6,
WMR reported: �WMR has obtained information from biological researchers that
the 1918 Spanish flu genetic sequences were �manipulated� in order
to effect transmission capability.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:17
Health
FDA panel favors giving Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon to kids
By Martha Rosenberg
ADELPHI, Md. -- Even as a US
district court prepares 6,000 Seroquel lawsuits for trial, Eli Lilly
pays $1.42 billion
for illegal Zyrexa marketing and 30 states sue over heisted Medicaid funds for
atypical antipsychotics, an FDA advisory panel has recommended approval of Seroquel,
Zyrexa and Geodon for children.
Jun 15, 2009, 00:11
Health
Gutting the health care plan: The scorpion and the Congress
By Paul Rogat Loeb
Will serious health reform meet the fate of the
scorpion and the turtle? In that fable, the scorpion pleads with the turtle to
carry him across a river. The turtle resists, fearing the scorpion�s sting, but
the scorpion reassures him that he�d do nothing so foolish, since both would
drown if he did. Finally the turtle agrees. Halfway across, the scorpion
betrays his promise with a lethal sting. As the turtle begins to drown, he asks
why he took both their lives. �It�s just who I am,� the scorpion replies.
Jun 10, 2009, 00:18
Health
Give it up, Wyeth
By Martha Rosenberg
The bad news at this year�s American Society of
Clinical Oncology that met in Orlando, Florida, is women on hormone therapy or
hormone replacement therapy (HRT) who develop lung cancer are 60 percent more
likely to die from it. The findings are from continued tracking of participants
in the federal Women�s Health (WHI) Initiative study which was terminated in
2002 because of adverse effects.
Jun 10, 2009, 00:10
Health
Keeping the public health care option alive
By Jerry Mazza
The public health care option is a government
provided health care alternative for individuals to select instead of various
private insurance programs. This is to ensure that as many Americans get
affordable, quality health care coverage as possible. It is a fallback from
Obama�s single-payer plan, which would have had the government as single
healthcare insurer, as is the case with Medicare (for the aged) and Medicaid
(for the poor), already targeted for $300
billion in cuts over 10 years.
Jun 9, 2009, 00:24
Health
Corrupted asthma drug trials spotlight FDA�s hasty approvals
By Martha Rosenberg
A major allergy and respiratory management
company knowingly produced flawed clinical trials of FDA approved drugs
currently on the market, a Texas physician has charged.
Jun 4, 2009, 00:15
Health
Senator Rockefeller patterns a healthcare �reform� bill on the Federal Reserve
By Jerry Mazza
Things are getting stranger and stranger in D.C.
and the promise of change now definitely looks like the same old game with
Medicare: invite the HMOs in to brainstorm cuts in services to people who need
them most.
Jun 1, 2009, 00:19
Health
Defeating malaria one mosquito net at a time
By Thomas C. Mountain
ASMARA, Eritrea -- One of the planets smallest,
poorest countries is defeating malaria one mosquito net at a time.
May 28, 2009, 00:20
Health
H1N1 synthetic flu may be test run for H5N1 avian flu
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The World Health Organization (WHO), after indicating it was prepared to raise
the AH1N1 pandemic flu alert to Level 6, the agency�s highest alert level, has
now succumbed to political pressure from Britain, Japan, China, and other
nations led by corporate-beholden governments to keep the alert level at Level
5. The nations opposed to a Level 6 alert argue that H1N1 should not be
considered by the rate at which it is spreading but by how deadly it is.
May 22, 2009, 00:28
Health
Timid tinkering with US health care is not a solution
By D. Grant Haynes
A high priority of the Obama administration is
an overhaul of the health care system in the United States.
May 18, 2009, 00:21
Health
Flying pigs, Tamiflu and factory farms, part II
By F. William Engdahl
As the late great
American poet Yogi Berra might have put it, �this just gets absurder and absurder.�
The international agencies supposedly responsible for monitoring worldwide
dangers of new pandemic threats, the WHO and CDC are acting like the directors
of a Hollywood �B� grade sci-fi movie or the author of a copycat version of
Michael Crichton�s Andromeda Strain novel.
May 5, 2009, 00:20
Health
Duty to warn: Diet soda is poison
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
I was on a long road trip last week
and, feeling rather drowsy, stopped at a convenience store for some coffee and
refreshments. As I walked up and down the aisles to find something to munch on
for the next leg of the trip, I discovered nothing that seemed to be real food
on any of the shelves. So I thought I would at least buy some chewing gum,
something I used to do decades ago when gum only cost a penny a
stick. I fondly remembered the refreshing taste of Wrigley�s
Doublemint, Juicy Fruit or Spearmint gum.
May 4, 2009, 00:19
Health
Flying pigs, Tamiflu and factory farms
By F. William Engdahl
If we are to believe what our trusted
international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic of a
new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly,
Swine Flu.
Apr 30, 2009, 00:24
Health
Mothers Act fuels multibillion dollar industry
By Evelyn Pringle
Motherhood has fallen prey to the
psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother�s Act
becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will
no doubt increase.
Apr 28, 2009, 00:19
Health
Floods, mold, cancer, and the politics of public health
By Ritt Goldstein
It�s spring, and flooding is again making
headlines; though, the �sick building� and mold issues inevitably following in
flooding�s wake have become somewhat better appreciated. But disturbingly
highlighting the imperatives of such awareness, recently published research has
-- for the first time -- shown the high cost of what the sickness that comes of
�sick buildings� can mean, with the potential for long-lasting disability now
being a documented fact.
Apr 6, 2009, 00:26
Health
Challenging the right wing on national health care
By Mary Shaw
Whenever I advocate for universal single-payer
health care for all Americans, the right-wingers flood my inbox with all the
predictable myths.
Mar 23, 2009, 00:15
Health
GOP hypocrisy on health care
By Mary Shaw
President Obama has nominated Kansas Governor
Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Mar 4, 2009, 00:48
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