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PATH: BS | Health & Medicine BP Oil Spill Destroying Coastlands; Action Not Happening Posted by Pile (15601 views) [E-Mail link] [Environment] Plaquemines parish president, Billy Nungesser makes a plea to the government to take over the project and stop British Petroleum's control over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as he watches the coastal marshes become irrevocably destroyed by the oil slick... READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article A Look Inside A Homeopathic Emergency Room Posted by Pile (16075 views) [E-Mail link] [Faulty Products] Ever wonder what a modern hospital might be like if you replaced all the scientifically-trained doctors with New Age Gurus? Here's a glimpse... READ MORE Foreign Seafood: Something's Fishy Posted by Pile (14153 views) [E-Mail link] Ever wonder how much seafood in your market comes from overseas and how much testing goes into it? And why is it that there are fish here from half way across the world that can be found in area waters? READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Food Network Recycles Fast Food Bits As Healthy Meals Posted by Pile (13848 views) [E-Mail link] [Junk Food] Her bio says, "A New York Times best-selling author, Ellie Krieger is a renowned registered dietitian specializing in nutrition and health communications. Her extensive work in the media has earned her a loyal following and national recognition as a trusted health professional." Which further confounds people when they see that she's published recipes in Food Network magazine and on the web site recycling fast food products like the innards of Big Macs and Taco Bell Burritos and KFC chicken pieces into so-called healthy meals! READ MORE GM Corn Linked To Organ Failure In Studies Posted by Pile (11726 views) [E-Mail link] In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Ground Beef In Fast Food Now Contains "Pink Slime" Posted by Pile (12996 views) [E-Mail link] [Junk Food] Imagine what you've been eating the last few years (thanks to meat industry lobbyists) when you eat a McDonald's burger (or the hamburger patties in kids' school lunches) or buy conventional ground meat at your supermarket: According to today's New York Times, The "majority of hamburger" now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings "the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil," "typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass" that contains "larger microbiological populations." This "nasty pink slime," as one FDA microbiologist called it, is now wrung in a centrifuge to remove the fat, and then treated with AMMONIA to "retard spoilage," and turned into "a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips". READ MORE | 5 comments since 2010-12-31 19:52:30 | Comment on this Article HMO To Drop 650,000 Customers To Raise Priofits Posted by Pile (11390 views) [E-Mail link] Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage next year as it seeks to raise additional revenue to meet profit expectations. In a third-quarter earnings conference call in late October, officials at Aetna announced that in an effort to improve on a less-than-anticipated profit margin in 2009, they would be raising prices on their consumers in 2010. The insurance giant predicted that the company would subsequently lose between 300,000 and 350,000 members next year from its national account as well as another 300,000 from smaller group accounts. READ MORE Healthcare Activist Released From Jail Against His Will Posted by Pile (11760 views) [E-Mail link] [Activists] On Thursday, Sam Pullen was arrested at the Los Angeles offices of the insurance giant Blue Cross. He refused to give his information to police and vowed to remain in prison until Blue Cross agreed to hear demands that it stop denying doctor-recommended medical treatment to seriously ill patients. Despite his resistance, Pullen was finally ordered released from jail on Monday, against his will. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Five Democratic Senators Sell Out Their Constitutients On Health Posted by Pile (11155 views) [E-Mail link] Yesterday, five Democratic United States Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark), Bill Nelson (D-Fla) and Tom Carper (D-Del) voted against the a proposal to put a government administered public option in the health reform bill that will come out of the Senate Finance Committee. Why would these five Democratic senators vote against their constitutients and what at least 81% of the American people want? I can give you 19 million reasons... READ MORE | 2 comments since 2009-12-23 08:27:00 | Comment on this Article Senate Shoots Down "Public Option" Health Reform Posted by Pile (12333 views) [E-Mail link] [Beating Dead Horses] The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday rejected two Democratic amendments that would have created a government-run "public option" as part an overhaul of the nation's health-insurance system, with the panel's chairman bowing to staunch Republican opposition that he said would prevent final passage of a bill containing such a provision. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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