Much has been written about addiction by practitioners of the healing arts and those that administer the solutions through public funding . What are the actual results and what beneficial healing has been accomplished ? Have we ,as practitioners of the healing arts, become misery and health whores wallowing on and in the public purse without really doing our jobs ? The "official war" on addiction and customer health problems has been a spectacular failure of good intentions and mismanagement.
It seem perverse that those that heal are restricted from healing people they serve and face even more restrictions and limitations of those that administer a failed public support system that consumes resources away from those that truly could use and effectively deploy those resources for the public good and welfare. It is sad to see this happen and the continuing perversion of the hippocratic oath .
The economics are clear . Greed and control limits healing options and is a very profitable if unethical option . There are more reasons given why proper help,cures and care cannot be given , why more restrictions must be put in place ,why more money must be made available to those that have done such a good job sucking the health coffer dry
How many levels of nonsense does it take to screw in a medical solution that works for those in need?
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Fountain of youth science
Removing 'zombie' cells could slow aging
ROCHESTER, Minn. (UPI) -- Purging the body of senescent cells, old"zombie" cells that are no longer functioning properly, may slow downthe human aging process, U.S. researchers say.
Cells in the body don't keep dividing forever but reach a state knownas cellular senescence in which they no longer divide but releasesubstances that damage adjacent cells, scientists at the Mayo Clinicsaid.
The immune system normally disposes of the zombie cells but with aginggradually loses its ability to do so, they said.
"By attacking these cells and what they produce, one day we may beable to break the link between aging mechanisms and predisposition todiseases like heart disease, stroke, cancers and dementia," Dr. JamesKirkland, a co-author of the study, said in a statement.
Researchers say eliminating senescent cells could delay the onset ofcataracts, the gradual loss of muscle tissue and other aging-relatedproblems, CBS News reported Thursday.
"Therapeutic interventions to get rid of senescent cells or blocktheir effects may represent an avenue to make us feel more vital,healthier, and allow us to stay independent for a much longer time,"Dr. Jan van Deursen, a study co-author, said in the statement.
The research suggests it may be possible to develop drugs that wouldkill senescent cells in humans or improve an aging immune system'sability to dispose of them, the researchers
ROCHESTER, Minn. (UPI) -- Purging the body of senescent cells, old"zombie" cells that are no longer functioning properly, may slow downthe human aging process, U.S. researchers say.
Cells in the body don't keep dividing forever but reach a state knownas cellular senescence in which they no longer divide but releasesubstances that damage adjacent cells, scientists at the Mayo Clinicsaid.
The immune system normally disposes of the zombie cells but with aginggradually loses its ability to do so, they said.
"By attacking these cells and what they produce, one day we may beable to break the link between aging mechanisms and predisposition todiseases like heart disease, stroke, cancers and dementia," Dr. JamesKirkland, a co-author of the study, said in a statement.
Researchers say eliminating senescent cells could delay the onset ofcataracts, the gradual loss of muscle tissue and other aging-relatedproblems, CBS News reported Thursday.
"Therapeutic interventions to get rid of senescent cells or blocktheir effects may represent an avenue to make us feel more vital,healthier, and allow us to stay independent for a much longer time,"Dr. Jan van Deursen, a study co-author, said in the statement.
The research suggests it may be possible to develop drugs that wouldkill senescent cells in humans or improve an aging immune system'sability to dispose of them, the researchers
DNR disturbing trend -keep your eyes open
Seniors given secret 'do not resuscitate' orders
Old and in the way? Not for long if you're unlucky enough to land in a British hospital, where seniors are routinely left to die under secret "do not resuscitate" orders.
Those orders are among the most difficult, painful, and intimate decisions you and your family could ever make -- but it's being stolen from you by doctors, nurses, and even office clerks who think they can play God.
Now, it doesn't matter what YOU want: If THEY think you're too sick -- or, more likely, too expensive -- to get even the smallest life-saving measures, you're put on the DNR list… and no one will even bother to tell you or your family that your days are numbered.
There's no other way to put it, folks -- that's a secret death order, and they're being issued in hospitals across the U.K.
In one major facility, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, investigators found no evidence that ANY of the DNR orders on file were issued with the knowledge and consent of the patients or their families.
At another hospital, a patient was left to die because a clerk had slipped a BLANK do-not-resuscitate form into his file. It hadn't been signed by anyone -- not the patient, not his family and not his doctors.
As a one-time mistake, that alone ranks as "unforgivable."
But this one is much worse than that -- because it wasn't a one-time mistake. Maybe it wasn't even a mistake at all -- because investigators found that clerks at this hospital routinely put blank DNR orders into patients' files.
Life-or-death decisions, made by filing clerks -- this is straight out of Kafka.
Action on Elder Abuse, a British charity, has taken to calling these secret DNR orders "euthanasia by the backdoor," but it's so systematic that I don't think there's anything "backdoor" about it. It sounds more like "euthanasia by committee" to me -- and you don't get a seat on that committee.
The phrase "death panel" comes to mind as well, except there's not even a "panel" anymore -- just a clerk with a Xerox machine.
And if you think this can only happen in the U.K., think again -- because the authors of ObamaCare believe Britain's fatally flawed model of socialized medicine is something we should aspire to.
Seniors given secret 'do not resuscitate' orders
Old and in the way? Not for long if you're unlucky enough to land in a British hospital, where seniors are routinely left to die under secret "do not resuscitate" orders.
Those orders are among the most difficult, painful, and intimate decisions you and your family could ever make -- but it's being stolen from you by doctors, nurses, and even office clerks who think they can play God.
Now, it doesn't matter what YOU want: If THEY think you're too sick -- or, more likely, too expensive -- to get even the smallest life-saving measures, you're put on the DNR list… and no one will even bother to tell you or your family that your days are numbered.
There's no other way to put it, folks -- that's a secret death order, and they're being issued in hospitals across the U.K.
In one major facility, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, investigators found no evidence that ANY of the DNR orders on file were issued with the knowledge and consent of the patients or their families.
At another hospital, a patient was left to die because a clerk had slipped a BLANK do-not-resuscitate form into his file. It hadn't been signed by anyone -- not the patient, not his family and not his doctors.
As a one-time mistake, that alone ranks as "unforgivable."
But this one is much worse than that -- because it wasn't a one-time mistake. Maybe it wasn't even a mistake at all -- because investigators found that clerks at this hospital routinely put blank DNR orders into patients' files.
Life-or-death decisions, made by filing clerks -- this is straight out of Kafka.
Action on Elder Abuse, a British charity, has taken to calling these secret DNR orders "euthanasia by the backdoor," but it's so systematic that I don't think there's anything "backdoor" about it. It sounds more like "euthanasia by committee" to me -- and you don't get a seat on that committee.
The phrase "death panel" comes to mind as well, except there's not even a "panel" anymore -- just a clerk with a Xerox machine.
And if you think this can only happen in the U.K., think again -- because the authors of ObamaCare believe Britain's fatally flawed model of socialized medicine is something we should aspire to.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Walk Your Way out of the Hospital
Being a hospital patient used to mean getting into a bed and basically staying there until the doctor said that you could go home. But in recent years, this approach has been changing dramatically as medical staffers have recognized that patients heal faster when they get out of bed and walk -- and new research is showing that the more you walk, and the sooner you walk, the better. If you have elderly relatives, however, you have probably discovered that the outdated idea of the "benefit of bed rest" has tremendous staying power. Convincing them otherwise can be more than challenging. Now, though, there is a new study that you can use to help them see the light. It clearly demonstrates that, condition permitting, elderly patients who are willing to get up and walk around outside their hospital rooms (especially those who start on day one) shorten the length of time that they must stay in the hospital -- which is another way of saying that active patients get better quicker.
BENEFITS OF GETTING ON YOUR FEET
Researchers from the department of nursing at Haifa University in Israel surveyed 485 patients, age 70 and older, who were hospitalized for at least two days (on average, about six). When I contacted study coauthor Efrat Shadmi, RN, PhD, she told me that these patients were in the hospital for common acute conditions, including pneumonia and exacerbations of chronic illnesses such as heart disease. Dr. Shadmi added that none of the patients’ conditions meant that they couldn’t or shouldn’t be somewhat active. In fact, the study eliminated any patients who had been hospitalized for a debilitating condition, such as stroke, that would significantly affect their ability to move around. The findings were published in the July 25, 2011, Archives of Internal Medicine.
While previous studies have found value when younger hospital patients got out of bed and walked, this one had equally good news for older patients. Study participants who walked around at least once a day outside their hospital rooms shortened their stays by 1.5 days, on average, compared with a group of patients who either refused (or were not encouraged) to walk around outside their hospital rooms. So the most active patients were released from the hospital the earliest.
Another interesting result: Those who started walking sooner also left the hospital faster. Patients who increased their walking by at least 600 steps from the first day to the second day of their stays were able to be discharged 1.7 days earlier than those who didn’t.
WELL WORTH THE EFFORT
Doctors stress that walking is important for hospital patients because it helps them maintain normal breathing function and promotes the flow of oxygen throughout the body. It also helps support normal gastrointestinal, bowel and urinary function. Dr. Shadmi adds that geriatric patients, in particular, have yet another reason to get moving -- muscle reserves decrease rapidly. If an older patient lingers in bed for even a few days without walking around, he/she can lose muscle mass so fast that his everyday functioning can become impaired.
It was encouraging to learn from Dr. Shadmi that when hospital staffers and family members explained to patients participating in the study how important walking was -- both for faster healing and maintaining strength -- the majority of patients were willing to give it a try, even if the extra effort made them extra tired. So if someone you love is in the hospital, go ahead and nudge him to walk around a little. Sure, he might groan at first, but he’ll thank you later -- when he’s at home.
Source(s):
Efrat Shadmi, RN, PhD, The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, faculty of social welfare and health sciences, Haifa University, Israel.
Efrat Shadmi, RN, PhD, The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, faculty of social welfare and health sciences, Haifa University, Israel.
Friday, October 28, 2011
explotation of the weak -not acceptable
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How nursing homes exploit their sickest residents
Dementia patients are being used as pawns in a highly profitable game of musical beds -- helping nursing homes to triple their revenues in a scam that you're just not going to believe.
Here's how it works: A dementia patient on his own, laying in a bed in a nursing home, will bring in $175 a day in Medicare payments.
That may sound like plenty -- $1225 for a single week -- but it's not the kind of money that earns big bonuses for nursing home executives at the end of the year, even in a joint with hundreds of these patients.
So they devise a reason to send the patient off to the hospital -- because when he gets back to the nursing home after that little trip, his value skyrockets.
Now, at least on paper, he needs "skilled care" in that nursing home -- so Medicare will pay TRIPLE the fees... even if it turns out that "skilled care" is exactly what the patient would have received if he had never left the nursing home in the first place.
It sounds like something the Enron boys would have schemed up, and the similarities don't end there. It's Medicare, after all, and that means you're the one ultimately footing the bill.
You'll find all the details of this massive hoodwink in the latest New England Journal of Medicine, which finds that 19 percent of advanced dementia patients in nursing homes are sent off for dubious hospitalizations near the end of their lives -- with some being moved back and forth multiple times in the space of just a few months.
These patients are sent to the hospital for conditions that are routinely and easily treated by nursing homes all the time: pneumonia, infections, swallowing problems, and dehydration, just to name a few.
They should be getting that care from the relative comfort of a familiar face in a familiar place.
Instead, they're being exploited in the name of cold, hard cash.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Do not get vacinated - assess the risk
The growing army of the unvaccinated
It's become a legal and politically correct form of discrimination: Unvaccinated kids are being booted from schools, summer camps, and even doctor's offices.
They're trying to make you feel like some kind of fringe weirdo for refusing to pump your kid full of live viruses, mercury, formaldehyde, chicken eggs, DNA from aborted fetuses, and all the other junk used in those shots.
But you're not a weirdo -- and you're not even fringe: New numbers show that a full 10 percent of American families now refuse or delay common childhood vaccinations.
And that's just the beginning -- because the survey in Pediatrics finds that even parents who toe the party line are having big-time doubts over this whole vaccination thing.
Twenty-five percent of those who get every vaccination say they believe it would be safer to delay some of them -- and nearly 30 percent say they don't think there's any harm in skipping the least necessary shots.
I agree -- as long as by "least necessary" you mean ALL of them!
Here are the facts: Vaccinations haven't protected or "saved" children. They've actually compromised the powerful natural immunity of the human body, making people weaker and sicker in the long run.
The perfect example is chickenpox. Kids used to get it all the time in early childhood, when all it meant was a few days of itching and scratching -- and then they were done with it.
You probably remember that yourself.
Today, the chickenpox vaccine has practically eliminated it in those early years -- but vaccinated kids and adults alike are now getting it later in life instead, when it can be dangerous and even deadly.
That's just one shot -- the rest are no better, and many are far worse.
The Institute of Medicine recently admitted that common vaccines can cause seizures, brain inflammation, infection, body encephalitis, pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis and more -- and this was in a statement in DEFENSE of vaccinations!
If anyone treats you like a fringe weirdo for opposing vaccinations, just show them that. That should shut 'em up.
Proudly on the fringe,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Help wanted interpretations -smile and true
Translations of Help Wanted Ads
Energetic self-starter: You'll be working on commission.
Entry level position: We will pay you the lowest wages allowed by law.
Experience required: We do not know the first thing about any of this.
Fast learner: You will get no training from us.
Flexible work hours: You will frequently work long overtime hours.
Good organizational skills: You'll be handling the filing.
Make an investment in you future: This is a franchise or a pyramidscheme.
Management training position: You'll be a salesperson with a wideterritory.
Much client contact: You handle the phone or make "cold calls" onclients.
Must have reliable transportation: You will be required to break speedlimits.
Must be able to lift 50 pounds: We offer no health insurance orchiropractors.
Opportunity of a lifetime: You will not find a lower salary for somuch work.
Planning and coordination: You book the bosses travel arrangements.
Quick problem solver: You will work on projects months behind schedulealready.
Strong communication skills: You will write tons of documentation andletters.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
As predicted -the next round of what is good for you individual sin tax - welcome to the special police state
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to eat
One of the last freedoms you have left is the freedom to choose what's on your dinner plate tonight -- but get ready to stick a fork in that one.
The Food Police have taken over in Denmark -- and we could be next.
This week, Denmark is taking the Nanny State to the next level with an onerous new tax on the fresh and natural foods your body needs. Under this so-called "fat tax," anyone who wants foods with saturated fats will have to pay through the teeth for the privilege.
Farm-fresh butter? TAXED!
Cheese? TAXED!
Meat? TAXED!
Pretty soon, shoppers will be forced to load up on lower-priced substitutes made of factory-processed soy byproducts and a lab full of dangerous chemicals--all in the name of good health, of course.
This sin tax is meant to help slash the risk of an early death. Puh-lease. Studies have shown time and again that people who eat healthful natural animal fats and skip the sugars and other refined carbohydrates have a much LOWER risk of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and even early death.
If that's what passes for sin, then being bad never felt so good.
Denmark isn't the only one leveling the sin tax. Hungary has imposed a tax on foods with high levels of sugar, salt, carbs, and caffeine. Denmark, Switzerland, and Austria have banned trans fats. And Finland, Romania, and Britain are all considering fat taxes as well.
But I think everyone is missing the point here. Forget for a minute that the government has picked the wrong bad guy (sugar and carbs would have been a much more appropriate target), the bottom line is that no government has any right to legislate your food choices. Period.
Hold on to your rights, America, or you'll be next. If Uncle Sam is going to be footing the bill for your healthcare, He certainly thinks he has the right to determine how you eat (and sleep and drink and exercise and you-name-it).
Consider this your wake-up call. And go eat some butter--before it's too late.
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telephone imagery
http://earthsky.org/human-world/iphone-morphs-into-medical-imaging-device interesting
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medical jumps
Cellphone becomes medical image device
DAVIS, Calif. (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've transformed aniPhone into a high-quality medical imaging device that could transformmedicine in developing countries.
Using only inexpensive materials, researchers at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, have modified smartphones to perform detailedmicroscopy, a release from the Optical Society of America said Monday.
Kaiqin Chu, a postdoctoral researcher in optics, inserted a $40 balllens -- a finely ground glass sphere that acts as a low-poweredmagnifying glass -- into a hole in a rubber sheet, and then simplytaped the sheet over the smartphone's camera.
Paired with the phone's camera, the ball lens can resolve features onthe order of 1.5 microns, small enough to identify different types ofblood cells, researchers said.
The enhanced phones could help doctors and nurses diagnose blooddiseases in developing nations where many hospitals and rural clinicshave limited or no access to laboratory equipment -- and can send thereal-time data to colleagues around the globe for further analysis anddiagnosis -- the researchers said.
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