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Health
For-profit health care: More than one way to scan a CAT
By Mickey Z.
Since just about every refrigerator automatically
comes with a meat drawer, butter shelf, and egg rack, it should come as no
surprise that most homes are predictably equipped with a medicine chest. Taking
such inevitability further along its natural progression, those in the health
care . . . I mean, disease care field fully expect to be regularly
treating patients with a fair amount of body fat.
Jan 30, 2008, 01:09
Health
Accused of hiding drug dangers again, Big Pharma starts 2008 defending itself
By Martha Rosenberg
If Hillary and Obama think the press is picking on
them, they should look at Big Pharma.
Jan 22, 2008, 00:09
Health
Medical researchers patented AIDS cure in 1990
By Juris Doctor Boyd Graves
Forward by Jerry Mazza
I
can�t think of any more fitting time than the anniversary of Dr. Martin
Luther�s birthday to submit this
article by Boyd Graves, an African American who has first-hand knowledge
of AIDS and has sustained his life by his own research into viable cures. He
has also persistently contributed to combating AIDS by submitting his findings
to those in power to bring about �positive� changes in attitude towards cures
at home and around the world.
Jan 21, 2008, 00:18
Health
The polio vaccine, AIDS, and their US-made viruses
By Jerry Mazza
When I was a teenager growing up in Brooklyn, my
parents warned me every summer to stay away from public pools or taking any
chances running under opened fire hydrants to cools us from the brick-and-tar
baking heat. Their fear was the epidemic of polio that haunted the US -- 52,000
cases in 1952 alone. My parents worried that polio �germs� could be carried in
the highly used and abused public waters.
Jan 11, 2008, 00:43
Health
Inside Bush's FDA: A perpetual leaker of insider information and the slipshod testing of generic drugs
By Evelyn Pringle
The steady leaking of insider information about
products under review by the FDA has caused enormous losses for average
American investors since the Bush administration took control of the agency six
years ago.
Jan 11, 2008, 00:38
Health
So . . . what's this here single-payer health care thing all about anyway?
By Warren Pease
A teenaged girl died a couple of weeks ago because
Cigna HealthCare, a for-profit medical insurance provider, did exactly what
it's compelled to do by law: it chose to maximize its profits by refusing to
pay for a liver transplant for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, whose doctors
warned that she would certainly die without the organ replacement.
Jan 4, 2008, 00:20
Health
AIDS estimates surge in America
By Jerry Mazza
This notice was served up to us on Dec 1, World AIDS
Day, by the Washington
Post. Read everything David Brown wrote, like �New
government estimates of the number of Americans who become infected with the
AIDS virus each year are 50 percent higher than previous calculations
suggested, sources said yesterday.
Dec 31, 2007, 01:02
Health
Teenage girl dies so CIGNA execs can get richer
By Mary Shaw
It's like a story straight out of the movie SiCKO.
Dec 24, 2007, 01:32
Health
Drugs not hugs, say pharma linked child psychiatrists
By Martha Rosenberg
The yellow do-not-cross crime scene tape had barely
been strung at Westroads Mall in Omaha before psychiatrist Dr. Harold Koplewicz
appeared on CBS' The Early Show to say that's depression for you.
Dec 19, 2007, 00:12
Health
Medicare Part D destroys the lives of senior citizens, the poor, and the sick
By Larry Chin
The American people -- particularly the elderly, the
poor and the sick -- continue to be systematically fleeced, impoverished, and
killed off by its so-called leadership, led by the Bush administration and
Congress. There is no better example of this than the Medicare Part D program.
Dec 14, 2007, 00:18
Health
Eli Lilly's latest curse: Cymbalta
By Martha Rosenberg
It was supposed to replace Prozac profits when the
patent expired in 2001 and cash in on the national love affair with
antidepressants. But Eli Lilly & Co.'s Cymbalta (duloxetine) seemed cursed
from the start.
Oct 17, 2007, 00:14
Health
FDA, industry insiders derail approval of new cancer treatments
By Evelyn Pringle
George W Bush's Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
stacked with insiders from the industry that literally carried him to Washington,
has stooped to a new low to protect the obscene profits of the multi-billion
dollar cancer industry by blocking the approval of a new class of
immunotherapies that can extend the lives of dying cancer patients with minimal
side effects.
Oct 10, 2007, 01:43
Health
The topic of cancer
By Mickey Z.
When actress Farrah Fawcett recently sought out
�alternative� cancer treatment, she was greeted with predictable media scorn.
For example, ABCNews.com (October 3) characterized such a choice as a
�last-ditch attempt to find a cure, one that brings the patient into a murky
world of offshore clinics and unproven courses of treatment that are scorned by
the medical establishment.�
Oct 5, 2007, 00:41
Health
Why Bush should have signed the children�s health act
By Walter M. Brasch
President George W. (�I-Demand-an-Up-or-Down-Vote�)
Bush yesterday vetoed the State Children�s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP),
which expired this past week. The highly successful program to aid children was
begun in 1997 under the Clinton presidency.
Oct 4, 2007, 01:10
Health
S-CHIP veto: The millstone around Bush's neck
By Joel Wendland
In what can only be regarded as a political stunt to
deny congressional Democrats a legislative victory at the expense of children,
President Bush has threatened to veto the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (S-CHIP) reauthorization bill, despite passage by large bipartisan
majorities in both Houses of Congress.
Sep 27, 2007, 01:01
Health
Canada unveils mental health board: Prime Minister Harper�s cure worse than disease
By James Corbett
A CBC
News report last Friday announced the creation of the Mental Health Commission
of Canada, whose goal will be to �help bring into being an integrated
mental health system that places people living with mental illness at its
centre.� This flowery platitude is counteracted by the website�s admission that
the board seeks to create a �national approach to mental health issues�
including disseminating �evidence based information on all aspects of mental health
and mental illness to governments, stakeholders and the public.�
Sep 6, 2007, 00:45
Health
Setting the record straight: observations on universal health care from actual Canadians
By Warren Pease
�There are only two ways to allocate any good or
service: through prices, as is done in a market economy, or lines dictated by
government, as in Canada's system. The socialist claim is that a single-payer
system is more equal than one based on prices, but . . . Canadian health care
is equal only in its shared scarcity.� --Wall
Street Journal editorial, June 13, 2005.
Aug 13, 2007, 00:27
Health
Avandia's real warning should be about the FDA and Big Pharma symbiosis
By Martha Rosenberg
They're just dropping like Chinese imports --
prescription drugs that turn out to be deadly after FDA approval.
Aug 8, 2007, 01:36
Health
AMA sics drug salesmen on doctors, charge groups at annual meeting
By Martha Rosenberg
CHICAGO -- The big topic at the American Medical
Association's annual meeting this summer was not Michael Moore's �Sicko� but
the AMA's siccing drug salesmen on doctors by selling its database.
Jul 3, 2007, 01:04
Health
Alone in the industrialized world: The American healthcare system
By Gina-Marie
Cheeseman
Americans
are not divided about the state of their health care system, according to
national polls. In a February 2007 poll, 91 percent believe health care in
America needs reforming. Sixty-four percent of those polled in October 2006
would prefer universal health insurance, even if it meant higher taxes. When
1,229 adults nationwide were asked in January 2006 if health insurance should
be guaranteed for everyone, 62 percent said yes. In the same poll, 61 percent
said they were concerned �a lot� about health care costs they are facing or
will face.
Jun 21, 2007, 01:32
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