An interesting discussion on American Healthcare will be taking place momentarily on
BlogTalkRadio. The voices are those of fellow bloggers that got involved in politics in their own special way. The topics covered will include:
- Personal stories from nyceve's professional experiences in medicine
- nyceve's panel at YearlyKos 2007 in Chicago
- Michael Moore's Sicko
- recent actions by the American Cancer Society
- SCHIP
- the benefits and drawbacks of various solutions to the growing healthcare crisis in America
- and much more
I'll be listening, will you?
Whigsboy vs Milloy:
Milloy begins the column by talking about a parent with a young girl heading into the sixth grade and she’ll need the usual vaccinations. This year, though, something’s different:
But this time, there's another disease on the list, one that the D.C. government is strongly urging your daughter be immunized against: the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is sexually transmitted. After all, your daughter is 11 and probably black, so the assumption is she'll be having unprotected sex in no time -- but don't take offense.
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Merrill Goozner takes a look at Eliot Spitzer's decision to push a Stem Cell Research Bill through in New York:
Stem cell research is promising, and it shouldn't be impeded by a bunch of anti-science right-to-lifers with God and the president on their side. But like any strain of research, the likelihood of a major medical breakthrough coming from stem cells is probably not that much greater than gene therapy, the human genome project, the war on cancer or any of the multi-billion-dollar medical research programs that came before it. A lot of knowledge and a few good things will come out of stem cell research, but will it make those with severed spines stand up and walk? Call me irreligious, but I'm skeptical.
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I took some time, a lot of time, trying to set up a similar news delivery service on another hosting platform. While the host claimed that they were an ad free host, they had a script that would pop up whenever their was a broken link on your site, guess what this script ran...advertising....and lots of it. No biggy? Well the script was interfering with the installations which lead to a lot of wasted time and wasted server space.
The server failed on 2 occasions leaving me to wonder if my work had been erased by the server. No technical assistance or even an FAQ was available. That's a lot of strikes against it, oh and the name of said host?
ifastnet.com
I won't link to them because they are that bad. Thanks for wasting my time and the time of hundreds of other webmasters guys. You really shouldn't have. There are many other worthless hosts out there and I'll add some more as they come to mind.
Does anyone care about these guys? Who will stand up and put an end to this nonsense? Does the American government really think that it's stall tactics are successfully covering up the fact that it is draining Iraq from all of it's future wealth by taking all of the oil?
And everyday you can multiply the story below by 10 fold:
Thanksgiving is almost here and Christmas is around the corner. But did you know that your holiday feast could include a side of antibiotic resistance?
A disturbing trend has emerged among turkey and other food animals: antibiotics are regularly being used in their feed to promote faster growth and to prevent diseases caused by overcrowded conditions in animal factory farms. And when we eat meat raised on antibiotic laden feed, we risk developing resistance to the very drugs that help treat us when we're sick.
This holiday season, protect your family's health!
Tell U.S. turkey producers you want meat that's drug-free.
Dear Friend,
President Bush's new head of federal family-planning programs believes that birth control is "demeaning" to women. President Bush's appointee, Eric Keroack, would lead the Department of Health and Human Services' family-planning program - which helps more than five million people annually at 4,600 clinics nationwide.
Keroack has dedicated his career to telling women that birth control and abortion are wrong. He most recently was the medical director for A Woman's Concern, a network of six anti-choice "crisis pregnancy centers" in Massachusetts that maintains a policy that states: "the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness."
Putting a doctor who opposes birth control in charge of federal family-planning programs is just plain irresponsible. Help block Keroack from assuming this influential position! Send a message to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, urging him to reject Keroack's appointment today. Click on the link below to get started.
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/news/press-releases/2006/pr11172006_bush.html
CroneWit from DailyKOS offers this action proposal to the progressive online community to take the next step and focus their attention on local needs of hungry Americans. Hunger and healthcare are tied directly together. If someone is not able to eat a healthy diet, they will have a harder time recovering from illness and will require more hospital care. Providing healthy meals for Americans in need is one of the cornerstones of a healthy democracy. It's time we return to our roots and pool our resources.
My county and city have a great Food Bank, and many food-distribution sites where people can go to get food -- surplus from grocery stores, food donated by citizens, government commodities. But can impoverished people get to the food? If I am lucky, I can get to one of those sites once or twice a month, if someone takes me -- because I don't have transportation, and public transportation is beyond my means. If your city provides food, can residents get to the sites? If, like me, residents are poor and disabled, can they find transportation? Are you helping food get to people, or people get to food? If not, why not?
How will you get involved? GoozNews writes about how Amgen's Epogen may be killing people when delivered in high doses and relationships between patient groups and drug companies.
He then points out that the National Kidney Foundation recently amended its guidelines for dialysis care to increase the target hemoglobin level. Surprise, the higher level is the same as the target level in the study that showed a 34 percent increase in heart attacks and strokes over people kept at lower levels!
I think it is time to throw the wolves out of the henhouse. Of course all the legislation in the world won't do a thing without a way of enforcing it and good luck getting this the attention it deserves in war time. But we still try.
