Archive for the 'Health' Category
California Governor Jerry Brown Signs Mandatory Vaccine Law
July 1st, 2015Via: Time: California Governor Jerry Brown signed a mandatory school vaccination bill into law Tuesday, abolishing the “personal belief” exemption that many parents use as a loophole to avoid vaccinating their children. Now, under California law, which is among the strictest in the country, children would not be able to enroll in public school unless […]
Water Fluoridation Doesn’t Prevent Cavities
June 30th, 2015Via: Newsweek: The Cochrane Collaboration, a group of doctors and researchers known for their comprehensive reviews—which are widely regarded as the gold standard of scientific rigor in assessing effectiveness of public health policies—recently set out to find out if fluoridation reduces cavities. They reviewed every study done on fluoridation that they could find, and then […]
“Doctor Who Opposed Vaccines Found Dead in Apparent Suicide”
June 28th, 2015Via: AP: Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, an anti-vaccine physician, has been found dead in what police believe is a suicide. Bradstreet died of what authorities say appears to be a self-inflicted gun shot to the chest, the Associated Press reports. His body was found by a fisherman on June 19 in Rocky Broad River in Chimney […]
California Lawmakers Approve Strict Vaccination Requirement
June 25th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: California lawmakers on Thursday approved one of the toughest mandatory vaccination requirements in the nation, moving to end exemptions from state immunization laws based on religious or other personal beliefs. The measure, among the most controversial taken up by the Legislature this year, would require more children who enter day care […]
One Nation, Under Sedation: Medicare Paid for Nearly 40 Million Tranquilizer Prescriptions in 2013
June 11th, 2015Via: Propublica: In 2012, Medicare’s massive prescription drug program didn’t spend a penny on popular tranquilizers such as Valium, Xanax and Ativan. The following year, it doled out more than $377 million for the drugs.
Surgical Anesthesia in Young Children Linked to Effects on IQ, Brain Structure
June 11th, 2015Via: Science Daily: Children who received general anesthesia for surgery before age 4 had diminished language comprehension, lower IQ and decreased gray matter density in posterior regions of their brain, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. … Loepke and his research colleagues have published previous studies showing widespread cell death, permanent deletion […]
‘Why Didn’t My Doctor Tell Me Chemo Kills?’
June 9th, 2015Via: New Eastern Outlook: In my daily research I came across a report so alarming I put aside planned writing in order to bring this to the attention of those who care about life. It has to do with one of the main treatments for cancer used in modern medicine—chemotherapy. New research has documented that […]
Israel Built, Exploded ‘Dirty Bombs’
June 9th, 2015Via: AP: Israel built and exploded so-called “dirty bombs,” explosives laced with nuclear material, to examine how such explosions would affect the country if it were to be attacked by the crude radioactive weapons, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported Monday. Israeli defense officials and scientists refused to comment on the report when reached by The […]
Holding Your Breath in India
June 6th, 2015Via: New York Times: We gradually learned that Delhi’s true menace came from its air, water, food and flies. These perils sicken, disable and kill millions in India annually, making for one of the worst public health disasters in the world. Delhi, we discovered, is quietly suffering from a dire pediatric respiratory crisis, with a […]
“Amazon, Google Race to Get Your DNA Into the Cloud”
June 5th, 2015Via: Reuters: Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth $1 billion a year by 2018. Academic institutions and healthcare companies are picking sides between their cloud […]
