“A new report out shows that Americans have set an all-time high on medical expenses, with 16 percent of our nation’s output going to health care. That means that one of every six dollars we spend is siphoned off into medical insurance, hospital care, doctor visits and the like. Our medical expenses are increasing at […]
“No patient should have to face the trauma of being abused by a doctor, nurse or other health-care provider. My heart aches for the victims of this very personal violation. When health-care providers cross sexual boundaries, the Department of Health wants to know about it right away so we can investigate and take action. The […]
“Politics these days seems more like medieval warfare than a civilized process designed to improve the quality of life. So when a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature put down their lances and shields and came together on a plan to provide health coverage for virtually all Massachusetts residents, it justifiably made headlines across the […]
[Interview]: “Dr. Sherri Tenpenny cracks the bird flu code in this explosive interview with Don Harkins, editor of The Idaho Observer, and sheds amazing light on what is turning out to be one of the biggest propaganda campaigns in the history of modern medicine. We’ve all been hearing the news about bird flu. Daily reports […]
“Tennessee’s Republican leaders in the state Senate need to be careful when it comes to posturing over Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen’s Cover Tennessee health care plan. … Bredesen offered the bare bones Cover Tennessee plan as a way for the state to go back and offer some form of health insurance to Tennessee’s working poor, […]
“The increasing availability of AIDS drugs in Africa, where the disease has taken its greatest toll, is welcome. … Two recent developments offer hope that barriers between organizations fighting AIDS might be breaking down. One is the report from the Vatican that a papal specialist on health affairs is preparing a paper on the question […]
“Hormonal contraception for men is reversible after a few months, a review of a prototype suggests. A review of data from 30 trials on the hormonal contraception, involving a total of about 1,500 men, appears in Saturday’s issue of The Lancet, a medical journal in Britain. Couples may not accept current methods of contraception for […]
“At least a dozen people who had routine operations claim they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses in a ghoulish scandal that has sent hundreds of people for tests. The patients tested positive for germs that cause AIDS, hepatitis or syphilis after receiving tissue transplants, according to their lawyers […]
“Over 40 and still sexy? Take a number. Women like Demi Moore, Heather Locklear, Shania Twain, and the women on Desperate Housewives are already showing us how it’s done. They’re dressing like younger women, dating younger men, and holding their own in steamy on-screen love scenes. What they’re not doing, however, is heading up two-hour […]
“Genzyme Corp. won federal approval yesterday for the first drug to treat a rare genetic disorder called Pompe disease, an intravenous treatment that will be one of the most expensive in the world at more than $200,000 per patient annually. The drug, Myozyme, treats an incurable disease that causes muscle wasting in adults and fatal […]
