New guidelines have been created in Canada for high blood pressure, as well they should. It was that there was a normal range and that you could be high or low in it. Having a high score in the normal range was still OK. Now that same score is seen as what is…
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Downsizing Causes Depression
Employees who hang onto jobs after a company has downsized were found to be suffering from depression, and other mental health issues. Of course they are. It is very stressful not to know when and if you will loose your job, and when the axe will fall again, or even if the company…
The Less of Two Evils
We now face the choice of either continuing to use water treated with chlorine which has now been linked with increased risk to bladder cancer, or using contaminated water.
Oh, This Is Real Nice
Women who are fat and not well educated that have breast cancer are given lower doses of chemotherapy. The reason is because doctors don’t see them as worth the money to save, as much as a thin college educated woman. I have personally heard a doctor that called into a radio station…
Doctors Voted
More than 11,000 doctors voted on what the best major medical milestone has been since 1840. The answer was simply, sanitation.
Bush, Get Off My Pot!
Federal agents have been raiding facilities that are supplying medical marijuana, even though those states want them to exist. The feds are walking all over states rights to legalize this and many are getting sick and tired of it. God forbid a drug should be used to help people who need it…
Folic Acid
People from 50 to 70 years old who take a folic acid supplement of some kind, have improved brain function equivalent to those at least five years younger. Every little bit helps. Trust me.
Uninsured Proposal
There has been a coalition of sixteen members, including the AARP, businesses, hospitals, and insurers, who have been working on a way that people who are uninsured, can afford some sort of coverage. This work has been going on for two years, and there seems to be only three groups of the sixteen who…
Tobacco
Tobacco companies have supplied evidence that these last couple of years they have raise the nicotine levels. Of course they have done this to get smokers more addicted to smoking. My guess is that they did this to make up for lost sales in people that quit. Nice huh?
That New Cancer Drug
The drug that’s been found to shrink cancer tumors and cure the disease cannot be patented, and so they say that drug companies will not back up human trials, or pay to put it on the market, which they say will cost between 600 and 800 million dollars. Hey, let’s ask Bush what’s…