“With my twenty years of extensive research in disease pathology, I have discovered there are five conditions that cause poor health. The first three only account for approximately 5% of all the health problems that plague America. They are: 1. Hereditary weakness of genes (genetic predispositions) 2. Congenital deformity 3. Permanent organ […]
“Large bees. For many years, when I thought of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, I thought of The Foundation’s unique symbol of philanthropy. … However, most times, I honestly wish I only associated The Community Foundation with large bees, and not with the loss of a dear friend. On Sunday, June 24, 2007, I […]
“A fresh report from the prestigious Commonwealth Fund concludes that ‘despite spending more on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, the US overall continues to fall far short on key indicators of health outcomes and quality.’ The report found that even with lavish spending the United States ranked ‘last among 19 industrialized nations when it […]
“Private insurance in the United States suffers from a legitimacy problem: It’s hard to trust that the HMO is working in your best interests when they exist to make money, and they make money by rejecting your care. Not every American has an economics degree, but we’re not idiots: Incentives matter. Meanwhile, for all the […]
“Healthcare. In media and politics, the phrase has become a cliché that easily slides into rhetoric and wonkery. The tweaking Washington debate runs parallel to the bottom line of corporate healthcare. While government officials talk, the principle of healthcare as a human right goes begging. … What’s in place is a profit-driven system of health […]
“Ordinary skin cells taken from patients with a fatal and incurable nerve disease have been transformed into nerve cells in a first step toward treating them, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. They transformed the cells from two patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, into motor neurons — the cells that waste away […]
“Federal agents raided a Culver City medical marijuana dispensary where they spent more than four hours this afternoon, serving a search warrant that resulted in no arrests but left the shop in disarray. … Sarah Pullen, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles office of the agency, said, ‘Marijuana remains a controlled substance, and it is […]
“Cosmetic surgery to ‘rejuvenate’ the vagina has been blacklisted by Australian gynecologists who say more women are being injured by the dangerous procedures. Top female sexual health specialists say they are seeing an increase in women with scarring, infections and altered sexual sensations after undergoing vaginal surgery. Most have had labioplasty operations, to change the […]
“While steroids can give the boost in muscle power that so often tempts athletes to abuse these drugs, researchers say there hasn’t been a targeted drug capable of building the endurance needed to run a marathon or ride a bike through the Alps. Now there might be, suggests a new study with mice. And that’s […]
“Researchers in Boston and around the world have pinpointed three genetic hot spots where deletions of big chunks of DNA appear to multiply a child’s chances of developing schizophrenia up to tenfold. The discoveries, reported online in the journal Nature yesterday, stem from a mammoth effort to scan the genomes of more than 3,000 schizophrenia […]
