Words to Ponder
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. -Eric Hoffer
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. -Anaïs Nin
Obesity Tsunami
More than half a billion people, or one in 10 adults worldwide, are obese -- more than double the number in 1980. Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of U.S. medical spending or an estimated $147 billion a year.
Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year.
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Best Hospitals 2010-2011 Honor Roll
The rankings are out again for the Best Hospitals. Out of the 5,000 that were considered only 152 made it to the list and of those only 14 to this years honor roll. In brief, death rate, care-related factors, and … Continue reading
Dengue Fever Found in Miami Beach
Advisories were in effect in Broward and Palm Beach counties after health department officials announced that a Miami Beach man had come down with a suspected case of locally-acquired dengue fever. The announcement from the Miami-Dade Health Department follows word … Continue reading
Coumadin Recall 1 mg Blister Packs
Bristol-Myers Squibb initiates a voluntary recall of 3 lots of physician sample blister packs of Coumadin® 1 mg tablets and 5 lots, of Coumadin 1 mg tablet hospital unit dose (HUD) blister packs. The following lot numbers are included in … Continue reading
Passport Fees Increasing July 13
(Glad I got mine renewed last year.) WASHINGTON — Passport fees are increasing as of July 13. The fee for first-time adult passport applications is going up $35, from $100 to $135, according to the U.S. Department of State. For … Continue reading
Heat Waves To Become Common
Exceptionally long heat waves and other hot events could become commonplace in the United States in the next 30 years, according to a new study by Stanford University climate scientists. “Using a large suite of climate model experiments, we see … Continue reading
U.S. Health Care Ranks Low
An in-depth report ranking US health care against six other industrialized countries. Sadly the United States comes in last. (HealthDay News) — Compared with six other industrialized nations, the United States ranks last when it comes to many measures of … Continue reading
Benadryl Tylenol Recalled
The maker of Benadryl and Tylenol has added five lots of the popular over-the-counter drugs to its growing list of recalled products, McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced Wednesday in a written statement. Saying the drugs were "inadvertently omitted from the initial … Continue reading
Ugly Mug May Land You In Jail
It’s already known that ugly people earn less than real lookers, and now research from Cornell University finds they are more likely to be convicted of crimes and get harsher sentences than average-looking defendants. Allegedly "impartial" jurors fall into two … Continue reading
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PepsiCo cutting sugar, sodium, fat in products
PepsiCo Inc. plans to cut the sodium found in each serving of its key brands by one-fourth in five years, the company announced Monday, as the industry deals with pressure from the government and health-conscious shoppers who want more options. … Continue reading
No Link Between Vaccines and Autism
A special federal court ruled that there is not enough evidence to support a link between childhood vaccines and autism in three separate cases, CNN reported. Debate has raged over whether routine childhood vaccines containing a mercury preservative, thimerosal, might … Continue reading
