Archive for the 'Health' Category
Religious Exemptions from InsuranceCare
January 11th, 2010Via: Watertown Daily Times:
Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine.
Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.
The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a [...]
Cancer Risks Debated for X-Ray Body Scanners
January 10th, 2010Via: New York Times:
The plan for broad use of X-ray body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers’ clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation to millions of people — a process some experts say is certain to result in a few additional cancer deaths.
The plan [...]
Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take Ten Times More Cocaine
January 7th, 2010A novel way of boosting demand?
Via: Popular Science:
Over the last decade, the advances in neuroscience that led doctors to view addiction as a disease, rather than a desire or personal failing, raised the natural question of whether or not addicts could be vaccinated against drug use as if it were a virus. While the theory [...]
European Parliament to Investigate “Pandemic” Scam
January 6th, 2010Via: Global Research:
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. [...]
Use of Potentially Harmful Chemicals Kept Secret Under Law
January 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post:
Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States — from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners — nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision.
The policy was designed [...]
Britain: Children Reaching Age 3 Without Being Able to Say a Word
January 4th, 2010The piece says that television isn’t a factor, but keep this USA Today article in mind:
A study released Monday adds to the debate over whether television impairs children’s language development. It found that parents and children virtually stop talking to each other when the TV is on, even if they’re in the same room.
For every [...]
Proposed Legislation: IRS to Make Sure Americans Are Buying Health Insurance
January 4th, 2010Change.
Via: USA Today:
Internal Revenue Service agents already try to catch tax cheats and moonshiners. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance.
The legislation would require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their federal tax returns. Those who don’t would [...]
Injecting Beef with Ammonia
January 2nd, 2010Must see image of the factory floor. It’s the Mordor of The Meatrix.
Via: New York Times:
Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.
The company, Beef Products Inc., had been looking to [...]
FDA Warning Letter to LSG SkyChefs (World’s Second Largest Provider of Airline Catering Services)
January 2nd, 2010Yum.
Via: FDA:
At the conclusion of the inspection, on October 6, 2009, the FDA investigator issued a list of Inspectional Ohservations (FDA-483) to your firm. As documented on this form (copy enclosed), the following are the significant violations at your airline catering facility on which we base the “Provisional” classification:
• To comply with 21 CFR 1250.30(a), [...]
U.S. Postal Service Will Deliver Drugs in Event of Bioattack
January 1st, 2010Via: AP:
If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive.
In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing “medical countermeasures” to [...]
