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Cost Differences Between Hospitals Revealed!

JHalstead — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:17:57 +0000

Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Stagger

Pothead's Wet Dream Come True: Dawn of the Marijuana Vending Machine

kelvin — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:16:00 +0000

Medbox’s core product resembles a Redbox DVD dispenser, only it’s black, refrigerated, and armored.....

IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

alisium — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:38:25 +0000

(CNSNews.com) – In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.

Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.

Wrong man forced into mental hospital, heavily drugged

phonon — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:21:46 +0000

The series of events started after a patient at the hospital left without permission in mid December. Police were called to help locate the patient and several days later, a man with the same description of the escapee was brought back to Graylands by police where he was wrongly identified by hospital staff as the runaway patient. The man was subsequently given a batch of antipsychotic drugs but it caused an adverse reaction and he was treated overnight in hospital. The “real” missing patient eventually returned to Graylands.

China's radical way of treating drug addiction

Jking8767 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:28:17 +0000

Drug addiction in China is highly stigmatized. And now, some doctors are trying to cure it with a radical procedure known as as a "stereotactic ablation." More simply, it's the practice of destroying parts of the brain's "pleasure centers" (the nucleus accumbens) in heroin addicts and alcoholics as a way to stop drug cravings. At the same time, however, damage to this region could also impair a person's ability to experience natural longings and other emotions, including joy.

Appeals court puts 1st Amendment over public health

Jking8767 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:30:50 +0000

The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act makes it illegal to sell a prescription drug for any purpose other than what's listed on the label. Nevertheless, a divided federal appeals court this week tossed out the conviction of a former drug sales rep who was recorded pitching a doctor on other uses of a medicine approved by regulators solely to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy.

Chicago sets up a temporary clinic in a garbage truck garage

Razor512 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:27:30 +0000

Chicago decided that it would be a good idea to set up a temporary clinic at a garbage truck garage, but eventually closes it after too many complaints about the smell, the dirt, and the rat and insect infestation. (though while it was opened, many people still went through with getting their blood tested as part of a city requirement for it's workers to undergo "wellness screenings"

How to prevent 15 out of the top 16 leading causes of Death

Beans — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:11:17 +0000

Death in America is largely a food-borne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Michael Greger, M.D., offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States

Timothy Brown Speaks Out on Being First Man "Cured" of HIV-AIDS

ecigarettes — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:23:32 +0000

As researchers continue to look for a possible cure for HIV-AIDS, we turn to the remarkable story of Timothy Ray Brown, known in the medical world as the "Berlin Patient." He is the first person believed to have been cured of HIV. "I was diagnosed in 1995 with HIV and I was scared to death because at that point people were dying from the disease itself and also form the only available drug at the time, AZT," Brown recalls. A decade later he was diagnosed with leukemia as well.

Pregnant woman jailed for having thought about abortion

Mattfree88 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:42:47 +0000

Pregnant woman jailed for having thought about abortion

This story is almost too hard to believe, but it is indeed true: A pregnant woman in Iowa was jailed for "attempted feticide" because she told hospital staff she once thought about having an abortion.

why anti-authoritarians are diagnosed as mentally ill

ianCredible — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:34:32 +0000

A Doctor speaks out against the diagnosis and medication of ADHD and ODD.

The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men

Mattfree88 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:25:06 +0000

The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men

If I were going to describe the perfect contraceptive, it would go something like this: no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to interfere with mood or sex drive, no negative health effects whatsoever, and 100 percent effectiveness. The funny thing is, something like that currently exists.

SENATE JUDICIARY: Obamacare not an enumerated power

Mattfree88 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:32:16 +0000

SENATE JUDICIARY: Obamacare not an enumerated power

Congress exceeded its constitutional limits with health care law

Mother angry after daughter vaccinated without her permission

Takeshi Kovacs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0000

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Sighle Kinney is fuming after her 14-year-old daughter was given four shots by the school nurse at Marcus Garvey Academy without her permission.

The daughter says she was called out of class by the school nurse back on January 30th and sent to the school’s clinic, which is operated by St. John’s medical.

Right to Die

LoveFreedomAndLiberty — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:42:21 +0000

After a stroke, a man wants the right to die. Do you feel this should be allowed? How much should it cost? Should it be limited to the terminally ill? What is your opinion? Read more here:

FDA tries to stop free sperm donor

jeffersonish — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:32:32 +0000

The Food and Drug Administration is working to put an end to a California' man's free sperm donation operation. Trent Arsenault, who has provided more than 350 donations and fathered 14 children through them, tells KNTV's Traci Grant he's just "helping people in need."

Vaccine for Flu worthless for elderly, so says a study.

libertylover — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:08:08 +0000

In the paper published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researcher Lone Simonsen of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and colleagues report that though immunization rates in people over 65 have increased 50% in the past 20 years, there has not been a corresponding decline in flu-related deaths.

FDA caused drug shortages...FDA now to fix drug shortages...

ElGuapo — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:39:28 +0000

Yes folks, the FDA's fund-raising measures have resulted in drug shortages and the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-benevolent master obamarama has now ordered the FDA to reduce the drug shortages that it successfully prevented by creating in the first place.

NH soon to be only state without a vaccines registry

Nemi — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:24:20 +0000

Vaccines in the state of Massachusetts may soon be tracked via a centralized registry, The Boston Globe reports ... [i]ronically, Massachusetts, the birthplace of public vaccination programs, is one of two states without statewide registries to track who gets vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New Hampshire is the other state without such a registry.