Heterosexual marriage better for children: doctors' group (Australia)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| The Australian Medical Association has distanced itself from a statement made by a group of doctors who say heterosexual marriage is better for children. Around 150 medical practitioners from the group Doctors For The Family have signed a submission to the Senate inquiry into marriage equality opposing same-sex marriage. The group says it believes heterosexual marriage is healthier for children. Doctors for the Family's convener Lachlan Dunjey has told ABC News Radio the group is concerned about the health consequences for children of gay marriages. "It's well proven that children who grow up with a mother and a father in... |
Researchers map damaged connections in Phineas Gage's brain
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont was using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod to pack blasting powder into a rock when he triggered an explosion that drove the rod through his left cheek and out of the top of his head. As reported at the time, the rod was later found, "smeared with blood and brains." Miraculously, Gage lived, becoming the most famous case in the history of neuroscience — not only because he survived a horrific accident that led to the destruction of much of his left frontal lobe but also... |
15-year-old schoolgirl died after 'doctor mistook tuberculosis for lovesickness'
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| A 15-year-old schoolgirl died of tuberculosis after her bungling GP claimed she was 'lovesick', an inquest heard. Alina Sarag was seen by more than five doctors at four different hospitals but medics failed to detect the curable disease. Her distraught parents even called her GP more than 50 times about their daughter's ailing condition over a four-and-a-half month period before her death on January 6 last year. An inquest heard that her GP, Dr Sharad Shripadrao Pandit, accused her parents of "mollycoddling" her. Shockingly, he even claimed her symptoms were brought on because she was 'lovesick'. Her distraught father, Sultan... |
U. of Chicago medical center VP revealed as Jeremiah Wright briber
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| On an appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio show on Monday, “The Amateur” author Edward Klein revealed the name of a close ally of President Barack Obama that his book alleges offered a $150,000 bribe to Rev. Jeremiah Wright to be quiet until after the 2008 election. “Well, what happened is that after ABC’s Brian Ross broadcast the video tapes of the Rev. Wright ‘God damning America’ and slamming whites and slamming Jews and America, he was contacted by one of Obama’s closest personal friends — a guy who travels on Obama’s plane, who plays basketball with him, who goes on... |
Pelosi calls on Obama to respect states’ rights, end medical marijuana raids (Hussein's fault!)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Pelosi calls on Obama to respect states’ rights, end medical marijuana raidsBy Steven Nelson | The Daily Caller – 5 hrs ago House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants President Barack Obama to lay off the weed. Reacting to an ongoing crackdown on medical marijuana facilities in California, Pelosi said in a Wednesday statement, “I have strong concerns about the recent actions by the federal government that threaten the safe access of medicinal marijuana to alleviate the suffering of patients in California.” The California Democrat said that medical marijuana is “both a medical and a states’ rights issue.” California legalized the... |
Med School’s Brave New World
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| The face of medical education is changing and patients may not like it one bit. “There is a movement towards principles and concepts rather than specific courses,” Bailus Walker, Jr. of the Howard University School of Medicine said on April 4, 2012 at a conference in Crystal City, VA. “Entrance to medical schools will be based on principles and concepts rather than biochemistry knowledge.” “The old departmental barriers and walls are coming down.” Dr. Walker thinks this is a good thing. He calls it a “convergence of disciplines.” “That will lead to more STEM education,” he said, referring to training... |
Health Care and Alcohol Poisoning
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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Drinking alcohol in moderation has certain health benefits as noted by numerous articles that have been published over the last few years. Information published by many notable sources states that certain antioxidants in fermented red grapes provide a way to help improve cholesterol.
Belgian trades EU for US to build Star Trek medical device
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Star Trek fans will know about the Tricorder, a handheld device used by Captain Kirk and company to, among other things, scan the biological state of the living creatures they encountered on their interplanetary voyage. Today, almost 50 years after the science-fiction series first aired on American television, the device is close to becoming a reality. “It really is very difficult to build, but not impossible,” says Walter De Brouwer, the founder and CEO of Scanadu, a start-up company based in Sillicon Valley working with the NASA space agency to build a 21st-century Tricorder, to be put on the market... |
U.S. Army considers bioelectric bandage for battlefield
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Innovative technology getting serious consideration from nation’s military The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is giving serious consideration to bioelectric bandages to provide pain relief, kill dangerous bacteria, and heal wounds more quickly out on the battlefield.Procellera bandage by Vomaris. The bandage, dubbed “Procellera,” purportedly creates a healing bioelectrical pathway over the wound surface to enhance the body’s natural healing process. It has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and is now being used to treat difficult-to-heal wounds. Background on the bandage Procellera is the world’s first self-contained, conformable, cut-to-fit, electrically active bandage. It... |
Condemning the Nazi euthanasia programme (Cardinal von Galens' sermon )
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Fellow Christians! In the pastoral letter of the German bishops of June 26, 1941, which was read out in all the Catholic churches in Germany on July 6, 1941, it states among other things: It is true that there are definite commandments in Catholic moral doctrine which are no longer applicable if their fulfillment involves too many difficulties. However, there are sacred obligations of conscience from which no one has the power to release us and which we must fulfil even if it costs us our lives. Never under any circumstances may a human being kill an innocent person apart... |
US argues it is immune from STD experiment lawsuit
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration argued Monday that Guatemalans unknowingly exposed to sexually transmitted diseases by U.S. researchers in the 1940s cannot sue the United States, no matter how shameful and unethical the studies were.In its first response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the experiment's subjects, the Justice Department late Monday said sovereign immunity protects federal health officials from litigation stemming from the study. The experiment conducted in the 1940s exposed Guatemalan prostitutes, prisoners, mental patients and soldiers with STDs to test the effects of penicillin. The studies were conducted without the test subjects' consent. |
Judge blocks California budget cut to hospitals for Medi-Cal
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| A federal judge has blocked a California state budget cut that would have affected rural patients, the latest indication that courts will have the last word on Medi-Cal reductions. Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers cut reimbursement rates to a variety of Medi-Cal providers by 10 percent to save $623 million in their June budget. Physicians, pharmacists and hospitals, among others, have argued that the cut to California's already low payment rates would discourage providers from accepting Medi-Cal patients and reduce access. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking the specific rate cut to nursing units... |
Insight - Russia says no to West's way with HIV
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| (Reuters) - In 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev said heroin was a threat to Russia's national security. This year, Russia pledged to finance programmes to reduce the harm done by drug use, including an HIV crisis that is one of the most severe in the world. But even though the number of new HIV infections in Russia jumped 10 percent over 2011, health workers and global HIV authorities say Moscow has not honoured that promise. This is not due to a lack of cash - Russia is doubling its budget for HIV in 2012 from 2010 levels. At issue is how... |
Etta James’ Family Reaches Deal To Manage Her Medical Care, $1M Estate
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| The husband and sons of terminally ill “At Last” and “Tell Mama” blues singer Etta James have reached a deal on managing her $1 million estate and medical care. ... Her adult sons Donto and Sametto had challenged the decisions of their stepfather Artis Mills, who married the singer in 1969 and is the estate’s conservator |
Final Medical Loss Ratio Rule Rebuffs Insurance Agents
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| The Obama administration issued a rule today that is sure to disappoint insurance agents: Fees paid to brokers and agents won’t count as medical care, under limits imposed on insurers in the 2010 federal health law. Photo by Thomas Hawk via Flickr That’s key because under the health law, insurers must spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on medical care and quality improvement – or issue rebates to consumers. The target is 85 percent for large-group issuers. Brokers had lobbied hard to have their fees exempted from the calculation of administrative costs, which also includes such expenses... |
MD Anderson boss predicts cancer cure
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| The new president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center said he expects a cure for cancer will be found on his watch. If not, he said, he'll consider his tenure a failure. “And I will not fail,” said Dr. Ronald DePinho, who moved to Houston in September from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston. SNIP The plain-spoken DePinho, who talks of “kicking cancer's butt,” said new technologies are the key to “putting cancer in the history books.” “The opportunity has never been greater to truly end this dreaded disease,” he said during a... |
Prayers, Medical & Legal Advice Needed
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Please pray for my wife as she is having surgery today to repair a blocked ureter as a result of a botched c-section. |
California gets OK for large cuts to Medi-Cal
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| California plans to reduce payments to many Medi-Cal providers by 10%. The federal government's approval of the budget-cutting measure raises concerns from doctors and others. The Obama administration will allow California to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Medi-Cal, a move doctors and experts say will make it harder for the poor to get medical treatment. California plans to reduce rates by 10% to many providers, including physicians, dentists, clinics, pharmacies and most nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday. |
Litcham Cryptogram: a medieval mystery
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| The initial survey work soon proved that the Litcham Cryptogram was by no means he only inscription to be found in the church. Within a matter of days the survey had identified over fifty individual images and inscriptions etched into the soft stone pillars of the church. "Almost every pillar was covered with inscriptions", continued Matthew, "and it was clear that there had once been many more. However, our attention kept coming back to the Litcham Cryptogram". The inscription was etched far deeper into the pillar than much of the surrounding graffiti and it is supposed that this is what... |
Medical device tax could kill 11 percent of U.S. med-tech jobs, AdvaMed says
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| An excise tax on medical devices, set to go into effect in 2013, could mean a nearly 11 percent cut for the U.S. medical technology sector and add $2.67 billion to the industry's annual tax bill, according to a study funded by the Advanced Medical Technology Assn. Medical device industry lobby AdvaMed says that the new 2.3 percent excise tax, slated to go into effect in 2013, will be "the last straw on the camel's back" for medical device companies trying to thrive in the struggling American economy. The tax puts more than 43,000 U.S. jobs at risk by all... |
Results of medication studies in top medical journals may be misleading to readers
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| UCLA-Harvard study highlights 3 types of confusing outcome measures Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, new research suggests. Investigators from the medical schools at UCLA and Harvard analyzed all the randomized medication trials published in the six highest-impact general medicine journals between June 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2010, to determine the prevalence of three types of outcome measures that make data interpretation difficult. In addition, they reviewed each study's abstract to determine the percentage that reported results using relative rather than absolute numbers,... |
Institute of Medicine Provides Medical "Cover" for Sebellius
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| There is a lot of talk, during these pre-presidential election days, of whether Republicans should stick to fiscal policy issues or include social issues as well in their platforms. Liberals are attacking fiscal/social conservatives, and some “establishment” Republicans are also criticizing their socially conservative colleagues, fearful that Independents will be turned off by the thought that Republicans are appearing rigid, strict, and hard. Political strategy aside, however, what often strikes me about these debates, which always seem centered on how conservative Republicans are trying to force their social views on the nation, is that liberals do it all the time... |
Woman’s yard sale to pay medical bills gets shut down
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| A woman fighting a terminal form of bone cancer is trying to raise money to help pay bills with a few weekend garage sales, but the city of Salem says she’s breaking the law and is shutting her down. Jan Cline had no idea, but the city of Salem has a clear law that states a person can only have three yard sales a year. Cline has been selling her stuff in the backyard for a few weekends and said she thought she’d be fine by keeping the sale out of everyone’s way. “It’s a struggle,” Cline says. “It’s a... |
Israel to grow medical cannabis to keep down prices
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| Health Ministry to launch new unit to oversee production in 2012; imports would be tenfold more expensi Dr. Ronni Gamzi, director-general of the Health Ministry, decided on Thursday to establish a unit within the ministry to manage the supervision and supply of medical marijuana and to serve as an agency for this purpose according to the demands of an international agreement on the subject. The unit will begin operating in January, 2012. It was also decided that medical cannabis will continue to be grown in Israel for at least two years, because imports would be tenfold more expensive. |
Cannabis Capitulation: The Marijuana Exception to Jan Brewer's Federalism
Saturday 26th of May 2012 01:27:46 AM
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| New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and former U.S. attorney, has never been keen on his state's Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act, which his predecessor, Jon Corzine, signed into law on the last day of his administration. But last week, Christie announced that New Jersey will proceed with plans to let six nonprofit organizations distribute marijuana to patients with "debilitating medical conditions" such as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis, despite the risk of federal prosecution. In Arizona, meanwhile, the Medical Marijuana Act approved by voters last November remains on hold thanks to Gov. Jan Brewer, who worries that... |
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