Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in The Body Electric on May 13th, 2008
As a former midwife, it’s almost amusing to me when people put so much energy into rationalizing that C-sections and bottlefeeding are just equivalent “lifestyle choices.” (I recently stumbled across a long, impassioned comments debate on another blog that pooh-poohed the risks.) Sure, there are plenty of good reasons at times and of course women […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Body Electric on May 13th, 2008
They say it’s better than nothing, but sometimes I wonder:
Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of African-American smokers, is receiving special protection as Congress tries to regulate tobacco for the first time.
The legislation, which would give the Food and Drug Administration […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Body Electric, The Regime on May 12th, 2008
Feeling safer yet?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.
The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Body Electric on May 11th, 2008
“Who could have known?”, etc. Perhaps the trail of dead bodies might have been a clue…
Posted in The Body Electric on May 7th, 2008
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl’s got ‘em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
- “Big Bottom,” Spinal Tap
Apparently there’s an upside to Blogger Butt!
Posted in Corporate Statism, Customer Service Hell, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on May 7th, 2008
When even Republican evangelicals get it, why don’t our politicians?
This especially resonates with me today because I have to go to battle with my insurance company. I need an MRI on my ankle, which most likely has a protruding bone chip from when I sprained it in September. (It’s gotten to the point where I […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Body Electric on May 2nd, 2008
Cymbalta.
You know, the usual pushback from the medical establishment on suicide stories is, “We were treating people for depression, and God knows how many people were saved by this drug.” But this drug wasn’t used for depression - it’s prescribed for urinary incontinence (something that’s often easily treated by Kegel exercises) and peripheral neuropathy. (You […]
Posted in Geek Stuff, The Body Electric on Apr 29th, 2008
Fascinating:
TOKYO (AFP) - The monthly discomfort many women see as a curse could pay off someday as Japanese researchers say menstrual blood can be used to repair heart damage.
Scientists obtained menstrual blood from nine women and cultivated it for about a month, focusing on a kind of cell that can act like stem cells.
Some […]
Posted in Geek Stuff, The Body Electric on Apr 22nd, 2008
The human body.
Posted in The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Apr 19th, 2008
Now my sinuses are in a state of full-fledged infection. When I went to bed last night, my right eye was so weepy, I couldn’t read. Then I woke up not long ago with a fever of 101. I took some ibuprofen and tried to sleep face-down on a hot water bottle, but I couldn’t. […]
Posted in The Body Electric on Apr 18th, 2008
Every other day, apparently.
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Apr 17th, 2008
How psychiatry is medicating a nation.
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Body Electric on Apr 15th, 2008
We’re all gonna die:
For the first time, the federal government is raising health alarms about bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical in plastics that is used in such varied items as dental fillings, baby bottles and sports water bottles.
The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, released a draft report today that says […]
Posted in The Body Electric on Apr 10th, 2008
This isn’t good news:
Tests on a father diagnosed with bird flu in China show he probably caught the disease from his dying son.
Scientists are concerned that if the virus evolves to pass easily from human to human millions could be at risk.
A genetic analysis of the Chinese case published in The Lancet found no evidence […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Apr 7th, 2008
And too many uninsured women are at a loss for how to treat their breast cancer:
Hillary Clinton appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and announced her plan to find a cure for breast cancer within our lifetime. Hillary’s plan would provide $300 million a year in increased funding for breast cancer research at the […]
Posted in The Body Electric on Apr 2nd, 2008
Bad for your brain, apparently.
Posted in Geek Stuff, The Body Electric on Mar 31st, 2008
I keep telling people but nobody listens:
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by […]
Posted in The Body Electric on Mar 25th, 2008
I kind of suspected this. I know it’s true for myself.
Posted in The Body Electric on Mar 20th, 2008
Eww.
Patients undergoing heart surgery routinely receive blood that has sat on a refrigerator shelf for two weeks or longer, a practice that appears to heighten their risk of infection, kidney failure, and even death, according to a major new study.
The sweeping report in today’s New England Journal of Medicine found that the age of donated […]
Posted in The Body Electric on Mar 20th, 2008
Fascinating story of a brain scientist describing her own stroke. (Thanks, K!)
Posted in The Body Electric on Mar 19th, 2008
Yep. I’ve been talking about this for years - we’ve reached immunological overload.
Posted in Corporate Statism, The Body Electric on Mar 10th, 2008
Oh yeah, and we’ve tainted the water supply, too.
Posted in Customer Service Hell, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Body Electric on Mar 6th, 2008
I almost bought this last week. I think I’m going to stop buying processed food, it’s getting too risky:
H.J. Heinz Co. is recalling approximately 40,000 cases of Boston Market brand lasagna with meat sauce after discovering that the beef was part of a major recall.
The lasagna contains ground beef that was among the 143 million […]
Posted in The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Mar 4th, 2008
Years ago, people used to make fun of me for my allergies - that is, the ones who didn’t tell me it was all in my head and treat me as if I simply had a weak character. (I never believed it. I always saw myself as the canary in the coal mine.) Ironic, that […]
Posted in My So-Called Life, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Mar 2nd, 2008
Weird. I feel really light-headed, like I’m going to pass out - even when I’m sitting down.
I was thinking how bad it was for my ex-husband before he died. After he had his stem-cell transplant, he developed fever and chills that lasted six months. Even though he knew his liver was already compromised, he kept […]
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