The transition period is over. Inauguration Day has ushered in the Obama administration. Many voiced their hopes for the new president through Change.gov, and a health freedom proposal garnered many votes of support.
Tag: Healthcare Reform
Wall Street Journal Article on Alternative Medicine Provokes Angry Response
The January 9 issue of the Wall Street Journal published an article by Deepak Chopra, MD, Dean Ornish, MD, Andrew Weill, MD, and Rustum Roy, PhD. “‘Alternative’ Medicine is Mainstream” made the case that an integrative, diet-and-lifestyle approach can curb our sky-high medical bills and cure our costly medical ills.
A Legal Challenge to Forcing Seniors into Medicare
Freedom of healthcare choice has long been an issue when dealing with government-funded healthcare plans like Medicare and Medicaid. For instance, the Watson-Burton legislation attempted to address economically disadvantaged persons who rely on Medicaid for health insurance because they were given no dental freedom of choice. For most families on Medicaid, the choice is either… Continue reading A Legal Challenge to Forcing Seniors into Medicare
The Canaries Dropped from the Skies
For two years, the transport of mined lead into a seaside Australian community was an unrecognized source of contamination. Then thousands of birds began to drop dead out of the sky.
What Happened to the Promise to Save This Nation Billions in Healthcare Costs?
One of the biggest clinical trials ever organized by our federal government indicated that generic medication for high blood pressure in use since the 1950s worked better than the newer drugs costing more than twenty times more.
Drop in Abdominal Obesity Cuts Risk of Macular Degeneration
According to newly published research from the University of Melbourne in Australia, patients who lower their waist-to-hip ratio (particularly if those patients are obese) can decrease their odds of developing age-related macular degeneration.
What Your Waist Size Means to Your Health
Connecting the Dots between a Bulging Waistline and the Risk of Premature Death
Has Technology Failed Us? Doctors Match Machines in Spotting Heart Disease
There are many aspects of what is sometimes called the “gold standard” of medicine that have been scrutinized by science and found to be lacking.
PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE
Group of unions accuses CVS Caremark Corp of violating patient privacy and pushing doctors to prescribe costly drug
Is There Another Financial Crisis Looming?
Will Medicare Break the Bank? The economic crisis fills the news, and rightly so. But there is another crisis on the horizon that may dwarf the dizzying “rescue fund” figures—the funding of Medicare, as Treasury Secretary Paulson indicated over a year ago.