has started a nationwide 40 million dollar campaign to begin a coalition for change in our health care system. They hope to be able to pressure lawmakers and insurance companies to hold them accountable and fill in the present gaps in our system. They want to change policies that affect people who are denied coverage…
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Gardasil, Safe Or Not?
The makers of Gardasil have been pushing this product heavily since it hit the market a couple years ago. Gardasil is the vaccine that we are supposed to be giving our daughters as young as age 9, to prevent the virus that causes one type of cervix cancer. We’ve all seen the commercials drumming…
Protect Your Skin From The Sun
We’ve all been told for the past thirty years or so that the sun can be very damaging to our skin. Most of us have heeded those warnings and have stopped laying in the sun to get our tans. We use sunblocks when we go outside and believe what ever the label on the bottle…
Mom Charged With Withholding Sons Chemotherapy
So once again we have a case where a parent plays Russian roulette with her child’s life. A little boy has non hodgkins lymphoma which the doctor say is highly curable. He get treated and goes into remission, however he must still continue chemo for up to a year after that to make sure…
Hope For MS Victims
Multiple Sclerosis is a horrible disease that can hit fast and hard, or gradually over a period of 15 or 20 years. It robs you of control over talking, moving, and eating. You become a prisoner trapped in your own body, and eventually death frees you. There is no cure as of yet although…