In the early 90′s a movie called Demolition Man was released. It starred Sylvester Stallone as John Sparton, a cop who was taken out of suspended animation to find it was about one hundred years later. The society had totally changed, it was peaceful and overly healthy and safe. Eating meat, using salt, swearing,…
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Schwarzenegger Terminates Trans Fats
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law this past week to outlaw trans fats that are served in restaurants and fried bakery goods such as doughnuts. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2010 for restaurants and Jan. 1 2011 for bakeries. As of those dates they are not allowed to have more…
MedPedia
MedPedia is a new website that will become the Wiki for medical information. It’s being put together right now, with contributors having no less than an MD or PHD. Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley are all involved and the project is getting support from the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and…
Survival of Cancer Depends On Where You Live
A new study has revealed that your surviving cancer has a lot to do with where you live and what color you are. This is all about how accessible health care is and how effective your health services are where you live. The Concord Studied viewed data on over 1.9 million patients with cancer…
Bush Forces His Religious Beliefs On The American People
“Go forth and multiply” or so the bible says, and President Bush has found another way to force woman to do just that. He is redefining some birth control methods as abortions, among those methods is the pill and IUD’s. He is saying that any termination of life between the moment of conception and birth…
Another Pitch For Wellness Clinics
A new study had determined that hundreds of millions could be saved in health care costs if clinics started including preventative and wellness care into their programs. A nonprofit advocacy group called the Trust for America’s Health discovered that clinics that encouraged quitting smoking, proper eating, and exercise, proved to be a better investment…
Surgeon Tatoos His Patient
Elizabeth Mateo is suing Dr. Steven Kirshner over a temporary tattoo he place below her panty line on her stomach after surgery. The doctor operated on a disc in her back and had to have placed the red rose tattoo on her afterwards. There were no witnesses. He fully admits to putting the tattoo…
Eight Year Old Hailed As A Hero
This is part of what’s wrong in our society, and I’m sure some people are going to blast me for this but here it goes… An eight year old boy is being honored as a hero, complete with being on TV, a news press, and a plaque. What he did was call 911 when…
Cholesterol Drugs For Eight Year Olds?
I’m sure there are cases where young children who are genetically predisposed to having high cholesterol, need the intervention of a statin, a cholesterol lowering drug. My own mother, while not a child has had a big problem with high cholesterol despite both my parents efforts to only buying and preparing low cholesterol and…
New Study Reveals That…
Mark Purdue from the National Cancer Institute discovered from government data on white men and woman from the ages of 15 to 39 that between the years of 1980 and 2004, yearly cases of melanoma increased in the young woman only, by about 50%. The numbers went from 9.4 cases to 13.9 cases per…