Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with healthcare www.salem-news.com 2010 Jesus Navarro could die without a kidney transplant. His wife is a match, and he has health insurance. But because Jesus is undocumented, a state medical center is refusing to perform surgery, essentially leaving Jesus to die. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/transplant-denial.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/transplant-denial.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:00 PST Delegates from 28 unions, nonprofits and grassroots organizations gathered in Portland on Friday, January 27, to form a new coalition that will advocate for universal health care in Oregon and the U.S. Seven labor unions joined with 21 community organizations to sign the membership agreement, approve bylaws, and elect an interim executive committee. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/healthcare-oregon.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/healthcare-oregon.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:00 PST American exceptionalism takes many forms. One of the least noticed is the preference for circumcision of boys. Other than among Muslims and Jews, for whom it is a religious or at least traditional requirement, cutting off part of the penis is alien to most other cultures and usually only carried out for medical, or occasionally aesthetic, reasons. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/flap-circumcision.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/flap-circumcision.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:00 PST Many proponents of the global cannabis movement believe legendary pitchman and author of The Black Tuna Diaries, Robert Platshorn, holds the key to cannabis legalization in the United States. Platshorn has shown he can sway senior audiences to support medical cannabis. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/florida-marijuana-mb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/florida-marijuana-mb.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:22:00 PST Today, Colorado-based and national representatives of LEAP sent a stern letter to U.S. Attorney John Walsh, pushing back against his recent threats to medical marijuana centers that operate legally under state and local law. The letter, signed by a 26-year veteran Denver cop and a former Lafayette judge, says Walsh's actions are "a disservice to the state of Colorado..." http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/denver-mmj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/denver-mmj.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:05:00 PST Today Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced that the proposed ballot measure concerning "Use and Regulation of Marijuana" will require a line-by-line review of signatures. Petitions for proposed initiative #30 were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office on January 4. The office immediately began verifying a random sample of the signatures as set forth in state statute. http://salem-news.com/articles/january192012/colorado-verification.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january192012/colorado-verification.php Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:58:00 PST I presume that a few people will disagree with my thesis. I will admit to a few exceptions and I will address them later. For my own review, I pulled up the standard doses of the opiates, (from opium) and the opioids, not from opium but totally synthetic. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172012/marijuana-painkiller-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172012/marijuana-painkiller-pl.php Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:52:00 PST The media keeps blasting the obvious paranoia about marijuana by a small but well-funded, noisy portion of the populace. Why there isn't a loud turmoil about the truly deadly alcohol and tobacco and even prescription drugs, which kill 100K PEOPLE A YEAR is beyond my understanding. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122012/marijuana-punishment-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122012/marijuana-punishment-pl.php Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:02:00 PST With the Fukushima disaster, earthquake-related reactor shutdowns, further reactor project cost escalation, infighting at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and cheap natural gas, 2011 was a year the nuclear power industry would prefer to get behind it as quickly as possible. But, looking ahead to 2012, experts see continuing challenges that will make it extremely difficult for the nuclear power industry to expand in the U.S. beyond a small handful of reactor projects... http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/nuclear-profits.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/nuclear-profits.php Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:58:00 PST Northwestern University fired an accomplished heart doctor after she produced evidence suggesting its chief of cardiac surgery won federal approval of an implant invention by making a false claim about its safety. The dismissal of Nalini M. Rajamannan, an associate professor of medicine, is the most drastic step to date in a four-year battle by Northwestern to defend the cardiac surgeon, Patrick M. McCarthy, against accusations in two lawsuits... http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/medical-whistleblower-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/medical-whistleblower-pb.php Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:10:00 PST On Dec. 12th I posted PTSD: Medical Marijuana Clinical Studies Confirm Benefits. The Clinical Studies were done in Israel and possibly are the first clinically controlled reports. Their studies were directed at the action of Cannabis on adverse memory problems which is the essence of PTSD. http://salem-news.com/articles/december232011/ptsd-conditions-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december232011/ptsd-conditions-pl.php Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:13:00 PST Marijuana use by 8th, 10th and 12th grade students increased again in 2011, with more American teenagers now using marijuana for the fourth year in a row, according to numbers released today by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan as part of the annual Monitoring the Future survey. In 2011, a lightly larger percent of high school seniors used marijuana in the last 30 days, while slightly less had used alcohol. http://salem-news.com/articles/december142011/teens-pot.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december142011/teens-pot.php Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:40:00 PST Congressman Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, has introduced a bill to extend benefits for ailments associated with Agent Orange exposure suffered by "blue water veterans" who served in Vietnam aboard Navy ships but did not set foot on land. The bill, H.R. 3612, is a companion to similar legislation introduced in the Senate earlier this year by U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/agent-orange-cp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/agent-orange-cp.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:48:00 PST Christmas is fast approaching and food pantries along with “soup” kitchens across America are almost universally experiencing hardship. Not only are pantries suffering major shortages in supplies and donations, they are experiencing dramatically increased numbers of homeless and/or hungry patrons. In conversations with a number of Samaritan services throughout the nation a picture emerges that fails to support the “official” statements of elected representatives from Selectmen all the way up to the President. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/holiday-charity-mdp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/holiday-charity-mdp.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:43:00 PST The federal government (CDC and HHS) wants to go into churches, temples, synagogues and mosques to give vaccines. There is a constitutional requirement for the separation of church and state in the US. It's there because the founding fathers, having seen the harm it caused in Europe, did not want the church to become a ruling force here. But we are looking at he state overwhelming the church. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/unholy-patent-wm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/unholy-patent-wm.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:12:00 PST To understand the gift relates to the Bankers whom the country distrusts (to put it mildly), one need only understand the Bankers are the pharmaceutical industry. The Bankers (synonymous with the vaccine manufacturers) influence the CDC (which has a questionable history) and HHS (whom Sibelius now heads) have come up with a way to turn religious institutions into unpaid agents to sell their latest biggest investment - vaccines. http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/banker-gift-mh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/banker-gift-mh.php Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:51:00 PST The 1% is led by Pharma, the biggest industry in the world. Six times bigger. Sick times bigger. See this trailer and wake up to the fact that conventional medicine is their bailiwick and they WANT disease. See this movie and wake up fully that these are not nice guys with an interest in health. Time to rethink things. The 1918 flu. The AIDS epidemic. The CDC. The prescription drugs. And it's way past time to rethink vaccines, their huge investment for the future. http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/vitamins-wanted.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/vitamins-wanted.php Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:05:00 PST A couple of TV doctors started bleating about the DANGER of arsenic and apple juice as if it were a new hazard. I don't know if my experience as a toxicologist will calm the waters or not, but I am going to try anyway. http://salem-news.com/articles/december022011/apples-arsenic-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december022011/apples-arsenic-pl.php Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:54:00 PST Doctors were once independent practitioners who could get their medical education from a range of medical schools and who attended at homeopathic or other kinds of hospitals. At the turn of the 20th century, the robber baron Rockefellers got rid of homeopathic hospitals. This occurred just after the millions of deaths during 1918-19 proved conclusively that homeopathy was curative and safe and the new synthetic drugs like aspirin were a medical disaster. http://salem-news.com/articles/december012011/doctors-imprisoned-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december012011/doctors-imprisoned-.php Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:57:00 PST The staffer is Rafael Lemaitre who is associate director of the office of National Drug Control Policy. The New York Times has a motto, 'All the news that's fit to print'. This may be the first time of such a colossal goof. http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/rafael-lemaitre-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/rafael-lemaitre-pl.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:55:00 PST If and when Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) releases its report later this month, as scheduled, it will do so amid wide scepticism on many critical fronts – except, it seems, for one. The credibility, independence and the ethnic balance of the post-war commission have been well-challenged internationally, since it was established by the President last year to ostensibly help reconcile the nation. But for the war’s tens of thousands of female survivors there has been little space and little said, by either the commission or its critics. http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/lanka-women-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/lanka-women-jb.php Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:08:00 PST The Nobel Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, when I met him in Cape Town, remarked, “Isn’t it wonderful that a Sinhalese should be campaigning for the Tamils for all these years?” I said that I did not think it ‘wonderful’ because this was not a Tamil problem or a Sinhalese problem but a humanitarian problem... http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/sri-lanka-danger-bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november252011/sri-lanka-danger-bs.php Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:17:00 PST An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where in 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences. Once, by firing squad against a Palestinian doctor, and once, in a case involving five Bulgarian nurses... http://salem-news.com/articles/november222011/libya-trials-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november222011/libya-trials-fl.php Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:39:00 PST We know how hard people are fighting now to save the economy, to stop the wars, to prevent more nuclear power plants, mountain top mining, fracking, and more drilling, to stop genetic engineering, and incredibly importantly - save our farmers and ranchers. But what is happening to supplements is little noticed but is of ultimate importance. The battle to save supplements is a battle to save nature and the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of using it to heal. http://salem-news.com/articles/november192011/saving-nutrition-ad.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november192011/saving-nutrition-ad.php Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:17:00 PST A public hearing is being held in Corvallis, Oregon this Thursday, November 17th to determine if Genetically Modified sugar beets will be deregulated in Oregon. Meanwhile, the public comment period maybe just a local distraction giving way to full federal deregulation without any representation of organic and conventional crop farmers. http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:56:00 PST Don't question me yet, but take a read about it. The TV says that 9.2 percent of returning veterans can't find work. (Atrocity #1) But it also says that for veterans 20 and under, 20% of them cannot find work (atrocity #2). The TV says veterans learn marketable skills in the service (atrocity #3). http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/ptsd-chaplains-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/ptsd-chaplains-pl.php Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:37:00 PST More than two years after the so called ‘end’ of the war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil people, the humanitarian situation is the most serious the Tamils in the north and east have ever faced. In the six decades that I have campaigned for the rights of the Tamils to live with equality, dignity, safety, and now to live at all, I cannot think of any period with this dreadful of a situation. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/tamils-lanka-bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/tamils-lanka-bs.php Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:05:00 PDT "This was not depleted uranium, it was actually slightly enriched uranium, which was fairly astonishing, it was not something that we really expected, and it led us to believe that the modern military systems use a whole new set of weapons which contain or produce enriched uranium..." The story here is almost as obscene as the overall notion of attacking a country suspected of having nukes, with nukes; and if experts like Prof. Chris Busby are right, that is exactly what happened. http://salem-news.com/articles/november042011/nuke-weapons-bn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november042011/nuke-weapons-bn.php Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:05:00 PDT The script most of the world has about Rwanda is of a nation on the verge of losing what it has gained since 1994. Not surprising. Sixteen years ago, Rwanda, many will agree looked a complete write off. The mess that was the genocide had left the country on its bare minimum, with no clean water, no hospitals, no justice system or infrastructure and a people that saw themselves as victims or perpetrators. http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/rwanda-losing-ea.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/rwanda-losing-ea.php Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:44:00 PDT Consider this, the probate court is the largest business in the world, for through its portals pass the entire wealth of the world, sooner or later. Now, pay close attention: In this post, I will mathematically prove this allegation. Though this well-kept secret does not appear in the Fortune 500's list, the probate court trumps them all, including Wal-Mart, Wall Street, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet. These businesses and individuals are all dwarves compared to the probate court. http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/probate-court-dt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november032011/probate-court-dt.php Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:14:00 PDT