health

OK, USAians. Go on then. I'm British. Right now I should say that you'd have to prise my National Health Service out of my cold dead hands. And yet... As with the thing about guns, I am perfectly willing to listen receptively to your explanations as to why not doing what the rest of the...

Yesterday, in a movie theatre, an advertisment flashed up for a popular national health cover provider (the one that we... ahem... are now leaving because of this....) that states that they will provide coverage for alternative medicine. This was, and possibly strangely enough, the first time...

NYT, today. Seems that the nanny was been naughty.

...not any longer - that's the good part. After a trial period of six years, the swiss government abandoned a law that made it mandatory for health insurances to pay for five "alternative therapies", including homeopathy. The "unsufficient proof for the alternative therapies' cost...

In the Test Your MP thread we have received a response from a candidate that they would follow Department of Health guidelines: On the link the Document states: (although this is rather generous), but then it says: - - - - - - - - - - - - References: 26 Linde K, Clausius N, Ramirez G et...

"When the first patient, who was told by Ms Kamper not to make use of conventional medicine, died, I raised the matter in the Dáil with the then Minister for Health, Micheál Martin. My concern was that somebody else might die and, unfortunately, this has happened." Health Department set to...

I tend to listen to the radio all day as I drive around in my squad car, mostly NPR. As a result, I get a lot of input on current affairs….Thus this rant: While the president gallivants around the country pushing whatever Social Security agenda he’ll eventually decide on (by all accounts...

I heard about this on the radio this morning, so I went and Googled. It appears that there are actually a few seperate studies, and they all sound like pretty crappy conjecture blown out of proportion by the media. I haven't read the actual reports, and doubt I have the knowledge to interpret...

Salve, I thought this is a topic both the hardcore left-wingers and we "compassionate" defenders of the free market economy can agree on. THIS... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=19615 ...health insurance company is doing society a disservice by existing and exercising...

Has anyone ever heard of Acutonics? They tell people they can fix all sorts of stuff that's wrong with you by using tuning forks. Of course they sell special tuning forks that they claim Unfortunately, someone in my group of friends has gotten heavily into this nonsense. :( She wants to...

I was trying to be clever and think up a dbpc study that even homeopaths cannot think to be screwed in any way. Unfortunately i got disappointed my study still would not convince a homeopath upon a negative result. Here is the rough idea(a bit impractical though, please ignore this small...

Interesting.

Oops. I may have just been given an irreversible shot that maybe I shouldn't have been. Of course, this is considering that on the list of contraindictions, the thing that I orginally went in to see the doctor for is listed second. The shot was kind of an afterthought. "While I'm here..."...

"As dangerous as an atomic bomb", apparently. Although obviously not literally so; I'm sure we'd have noticed earlier if hospitals started vapourising in colossal explosions. However, now we have MRI scans, I'm curious as to why we're still using X-Rays for this sort of thing anyway. Is the CAT...

Even the only Professor of Complementary Health in the UK is a bit dubious about some of the claims. At: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3527138.stm

From the article: I am (sort of)glad that hypocritical politician exist in other countries.

I notice this has come up in the Homeopathy threads as (I think) the Homeopaths have tried to claim it is improved sanitation and not vaccination that has reduced disease incidence. Though how they embrace one area of science to reject another I can't fathom. Anyway, I've heard this...

I was listening to the radio in my car on the way home from work and heard the radio host (Larry Elder) read Kerry's speech while he was visiting striking workers here and call them heroes because they are fighting for the right of health care. Now forgoing one of the worst uses of hero ever...

While walking through the mall the other day, I saw this sign outside a GNC (General Nutrician Center) store: We need your help! Your Supplements are in Jeopardy The supplement industry is again under siege. The recent negative publicity associated with ephedra has led some legislators to...

I typed in my name and was told, among other things, Weaknesses centering in the head? So my name so ineffable that just pronouncing it can make me insane?

World Health Baloney

ok, so I frequent another board and every single day, this guy comes and posts links to recipies, pushing veganism as the choice for a new generation. Think of a food Jehovahs Witness and you've got this guy pegged. in addition, he makes claims about "meat eaters" that I'm sure are absolute...