Archive for the 'Health' Category
Great Lakes Danger Zones
August 31st, 2008Via: Center for Public Integrity: For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates. The 400-plus-page study, Public […]
Culture of Surveillance May Contribute to Delusional Condition
August 30th, 2008There’s now a psychiatric designation for people who are aware of systems like the NarusInsight Intercept Suite and Siemens’ Intelligence Platform. Via: IHT: Psychosis in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an […]
Perks for Drug Pushers
August 23rd, 2008Via: Guardian: Drug companies are spending millions of pounds every year on all-expenses-paid trips to conferences around the world for doctors and other hospital staff, in what critics say is a massive marketing exercise dressed up as medical education. The Guardian can reveal the scale of pharmaceutical company sponsorship following an examination of the registers […]
Vaccine Nation
August 19th, 2008For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases — Right? Wrong! What you don’t know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: * See the truth about the dangers of vaccines […]
Contraceptive Pill Can Lead Women to Choose Wrong Partner
August 13th, 2008LadyComp. No toxic side effects. No ongoing expenses. Better chances of sniffing out a good mate!? Via: Guardian: Taking the contraceptive pill can lead a woman to choose the “wrong” partner, the findings of a study published today suggest. The pill is thought to disrupt an instinctive mechanism that brings people with complementary genes and […]
Has Cheney Been Fitted with a Kill Switch?
August 10th, 2008Dick Cheney’s life depends on a device that can be accessed remotely and commanded arbitrarily with readily available hardware and software. In 2001, Cheney received a Medtronic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. See: Device in Cheney’s Chest Helps Veep’s Ticker Keep Time: July 2, 2001 — Small technology is at the heart of an advanced pacemaker implanted in […]
Middle Ear Myoclonus (Update)
August 7th, 2008I’ve managed to resolve this condition without medical intervention. The story is on the original post, if you’re curious.
Who Says Good Nutrition Means Animal Fats? Weston A. Price
August 6th, 2008WAPF given fair treatment by the Washington Post??? Incredible, but true. Via: Washington Post: Fallon’s definition of “real” is vastly different from what many Americans who consider themselves health-conscious might describe. She advocates butter on bread “so thick you can see teeth marks in it,” plenty of meat and unpasteurized, or raw, milk. Those are […]
Lilly Trained Sales Force to Ignore Risks Associated with Zyprexa
August 2nd, 2008Eat your happy pills, citizen! Via: Bloomberg: Eli Lilly & Co. trained its sales force to downplay risks for Zyprexa and encourage doctors to prescribe the drug beyond approved uses for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to court documents. Lilly’s research showed some patients on Zyprexa gained as much as 80 pounds and that the […]
And Now, The War Against Giving Birth at Home
July 13th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: ABC News: The American Medical Association has agreed to support proposed legislation that, some physicians say, could make make having a planned birth in one’s home difficult, to virtually impossible. As of now, no actual legislation has been drawn up, but the AMA has agreed to back a measure called “Resolution 205,” […]
