WiFi Use Grows Strongly in Health Care Industry: Report - Health Care IT from eWeek

Lets use technology to reduce care costs and improve both productivity and client service - S.Holle

WiFi Use Grows Strongly in Health Care Industry: Report - Health Care IT from eWeek

According to the research firm, health care users are usually the first adopters of new WiFi technology, and the recession of 2009-2010 didn't halt the growth of wireless activity. In addition to the home, patients in hospitals can now use WiFi to keep in touch with family and friends while recovering.

"The health care industry has come to rely on WiFi because it's versatile, proven technology that meets health care's unique needs — data-intensive work in highly mobile environments," Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director for the Wi-Fi Alliance, told eWEEK. "It has advanced security mechanisms, high-performance technology, a robust certification ecosystem and an enormous range of certified devices."
ABI's Wireless Health Care Research Service tracks other wireless technology in the health care industry such as Bluetooth, Low-Energy Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.4 and proprietary low power RF offerings to see how it's used in areas such as WLAN, personal monitoring, disease management, assisted living and telepresence.

"Wi-Fi can certainly support this kind of application, but there are some lower-power technologies that it will have to compete with such as Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee and proprietary offerings," Collins told eWEEK. "Any offering in this market will have to be extremely simple to install, and operate and existing Wi-Fi connections can’t be relied upon to always be present.

With doctors now able to monitor patients' vital data from afar using wireless technology such as WiFi, ABI reported in July 2009 that remote patient monitoring is poised for major growth. At the time, the firm expected WiFi-enabled health care products worldwide (with the exception of WiFi-equipped medical equipment) to total $4.9 billion in 2014.

Scientists identify 'memory' molecule - a break threw

Scientists identify 'memory' molecule
LEICESTER, England (UPI) -- Researchers in Britain say they've discovered a molecular key to how the human brain learns, and how it records and saves memories.

Scientists at the University of Leicester have identified the chemical mechanism by which memories are formed, a university release said Monday.

A key protein is involved in the brain's process of creating and retaining memories, Andrew Tobin, a professor of cell biology, said.

"This protein is present in the part of the brain in which memories are stored," Tobin said. "We have found that in order for any memory to be laid down this protein, called the M3-muscarinic receptor, has to be activated."

The finding could have important implications for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Tobin said.

Since one of the major symptoms of Alzheimer's is memory loss, he said, drugs designed to target the protein identified in the study could lead to treatment options for the disease.

Copyright 2010 by United Press International

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First in spending -last in delivery

U.S. ranks last in study on healthcare
NEW YORK (UPI) -- Despite paying almost double for healthcare compared to any other country, the United States ranked last in a study of seven developed nations, a survey says.

The non-profit group, the Commonwealth Fund, used data from the 2007 International Health Policy Survey, conducted by telephone in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States; the 2008 International Health Policy Survey of Sicker Adults and the Commonwealth Fund 2009 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians.

The United States ranked last for access to healthcare -- 54 percent of U.S. adults with chronic conditions reported not getting a recommended test, treatment or follow-up care because of cost.

U.S. patients are most likely to report being given the wrong medication or the wrong dose of their medication -- a preventable medical error, the study found.

In measuring efficiency, the U.S ranked last due to high administrative costs, lack of use of information technology, re-hospitalization rates of patients and duplicative medical testing. U.S. patients were three times as likely as those in Germany or the Netherlands to visit an emergency department for something a regular doctor could have treated.

For any category, the highest the United States ranked was fourth.

The Netherlands ranked first and has a per capita cost of healthcare of $3,837, the United States ranked last and had a healthcare per capita cost of $7,290.

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Interesting notes on FF (female frisky)

Big Pharma readies female sex med

Ladies, if you're not in a perpetual state of moistened sexual readiness, there's something wrong with you.

No, really -- you are mentally ill. Deranged, even. Insane with a lack of sexual will.

Think I'm kidding? Turn on the TV -- at some point, a botox creation by the name of Lisa Rinna will begin yammering about a condition called "hypoactive sexual desire disorder."

And if you're not constantly horny, you might have it.

Sorry, there's no cure -- you're just going to have to accept the fact that your life will never, ever be complete or fulfilling.

Except...

It just so happens that the commercials are being funded by a group called the Society of Women's Health Research and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, which just so happens to have a drug in front of the FDA right now to treat "hypoactive sexual desire disorder."

That's right -- Big Pharma wants its new female sex drug to be a blockbuster right out of the gate. They're hoping to build up so much sexual frustration that there's a prescription orgy the day this thing is approved.

The drug is called flibanserin, although if it reaches the market it'll have a name like Girosa or Ectris. But no matter what they call it, they can't change what it really is -- because this med isn't some sexual wonder drug that's going to turn your man into Fabio or whoever women lust after these days.

As I've told you before, it's really just a failed antidepressant, one with more side effects than benefits -- including headaches, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, diarrhea and urinary infections. In the mood yet? No?

Clearly, there's something wrong with you.

Feeling frisky,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Get your sunshine -vitamin D

Low vitamin D linked to mobility problems

Stay out of the sun... use sunscreen... cover up... wear a hat... nag, nag, nag.

I'm sick of it!

This bad advice has led directly to the vitamin D crisis and skin cancer explosion
-- and now, a new study shows how it's destroying senior's lives, too.

Researchers say older Americans with the lowest levels of vitamin D have the highest risk for mobility problems... while those with the highest levels of the sunshine vitamin had the lowest risk.

Which category are you in? If you answered "highest," you're probably wrong. Most Americans are badly deficient, and it's getting worse every year.

Just look at this new study: The researchers tested 2,641 golden oldies with an average age of 75, and found two-thirds of them had insufficient D levels.

All of these seniors were asked to perform basic mobility tasks, such as walking 400 meters quickly, rising from a chair without using their arms, and some balance tests similar to what a cop might ask a DWI suspect to do.

The seniors were given the tests again two years later, and two years after that... and those with the highest D levels from the start did the best all the way through, according to the study presented at the Experimental Biology 2010 meeting.

The researchers say now they want to study whether D supplements can keep you out of the wheelchair, but let's call that what it is: An easy play for another research grant.

I can tell you right now what they'll find if they use high levels of genuine, natural vitamin D3: Healthy, active seniors. Vitamin D won't just boost your mobility, it will also lower your risk for diabetes, heart disease, bone breaks, cancer, colds, flu and more.

You can get your own quality supplement easily enough, but the best way to take in the D is to soak up the sun.

Just use a little common sense, don't get burned... and ignore the nags.

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Survey: People uncaring to mentally ill

Survey: People uncaring to mentally ill
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults say people show caring and sympathy to those with mental illness, a government survey indicates.

The national survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the estimated 9.8 million U.S. adults living with serious mental illness, found the prevalence of serious mental illness is highest in the 18-25 age group.

The HealthStyles Survey, by SAMHSA and Porter Novelli, indicates 72 percent of young adults ages 18-24 say a person with mental illness would improve if given treatment and support. However, only 33 percent say a person can eventually recover from mental illness.

Forty percent of the survey respondents say a person with mental illness can succeed at work and 65 percent say treatment can help people with mental illness.

SAMHSA and The Advertising Council are beginning a national public service announcement campaign aimed at encouraging, educating and inspiring young adults to support friends and family experiencing a mental health problem.

"We know that people can recover from mental health problems," Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, says in a statement. "Today we are getting the word out that support from friends and family can make a difference in helping people overcome these illnesses."

No survey details were provided.

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Sleepless in the senior home
They call it "assisted living," but the only help most seniors get in these awful joints comes once a month, when they need help finding the checkbook.

A new study shows how seniors in these places suffer from widespread sleep disorders -- problems so bad they're leading to a rapid decline in the quality of life and even conditions like severe depression.
Of course, you'd be depressed too if you lived in some of these homes.

Researchers studied 121 seniors at assisted living facilities in the Los Angeles area and found that 65 percent of them were suffering from sleep problems such as waking up in the middle of the night and the inability to fall asleep in the first place.
Over the course of a six-month follow-up period, those who had trouble sleeping were more likely to come apart at the seams. These patients needed more help with their daily living -- which only shows they're not getting out of that assisted living big house anytime soon.

I was already steaming when I read about this in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society... but it gets even worse, because these sleepless seniors were also more likely to suffer from worsening depression.

So much for "assisted" living.
And if you think this problem is confined to these homes on the Left Coast, you're missing out on sleep yourself. Nothing can wreck a human being faster than a lack of sleep. Heck, we get in trouble when we "torture" terrorists with sleep deprivation... yet somehow it's perfectly OK when it happens to older Americans living in care facilities.

Remember -- sleep problems aren't normal at any age, even if they are par for the course in assisted living homes.
Needing no assistance, William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

How to beat the high cost of government retirement options

Here's a Plan
About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess ship. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told she owned the line, but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to back.

As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to say hello. We chatted and I said, "I understand you've been on this ship for the last four cruises." She replied, "Yes, that's true." I stated, "I don't understand" and she replied, without a pause, "It's cheaper than a nursing home."

So, there will be no nursing home in my future. When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:

1. Gratuities which will only be $10 per day.

2. I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast in bed every day of the week).

3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.

4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.

5. They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.

6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.

7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.

8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.

9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go? Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to ship.

P.S. And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at no charge.

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Fast food fast exit

Fast food logos turn your judgment inside out

If you're jonesing for junk food, you don't have a craving -- you've been conditioned, plain and simple.

Ronald McDonald, world's most careful and calculated clown, has turned you into one of Pavlov's dogs. He's already taught you how to beg... and if you keep eating his junk, you'll be playing dead, too -- and that's no trick.

A new study shows how the very sight of a fast food logo can send you itching and twitching into an irrational frenzy that can only be cured by some reformed chicken chunks and processed meat patties.

And all it takes is a quick, subliminal flash to change your behavior.

Researchers showed a series of images to students for less than a tenth of second
-- between 12 and 80 milliseconds. Some of the students saw logos for death cafes such as McDonald's, KFC, Subway and Taco Hell, err, Bell.

Then, the students were asked to read some text and choose between two skincare products.

The researchers found that the students who were exposed to -- or infected by, in my book -- the fast food logos were more likely to plow through the text as quickly as possible, and then choose the product that saved the most time.

I'm surprised some of these kids didn't just toss the reading assignment and run right out of the room in search of some processed meat patties or reformed chicken chunks.

The researchers say their study shows how fast food "can have the unexpected consequence of inducing haste and impatience."

I hate to break the news, but the biggest problem with fast food isn't the fact that it causes haste and impatience. It's the fact that it causes heart disease, diabetes and early death.

As far as I'm concerned, the best fast food logo is a rotting corpse.

Speeding away from fast food,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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senior issues -carp position

Generic Drug Pricing Reform
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CARP actively supported proposals in Ontario to dramatically
reduce the price of generic drugs, expand the patient services
provided by pharmacists and eliminate rebates paid to
pharmacists by generic drug companies. Opponents of the reforms
- aware that other provinces could follow suit - stoked fears
about loss of services to seniors by threatening to close stores
or charge for delivery. CARP members expressed definitive
support for overhauling the drug pricing system. Read more [
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In a poll of CARP ActionOnline readers, 91% of the over 3,200 respondents fully supported the proposed changes and condemned the retaliatory action. CARP members' support for the reforms certainly entered the public discourse in a high profile manner when the Minister of Health & Long-Term care announced the poll results during question period at the

The Ontario Government Seeks to Regulate Retirement Homes with a
Noteworthy Bill - CARP Urges Consumer Protection
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A new bill working its way through the Ontario Legislature
promises to regulate retirement homes across the province. With
more than 40,000 retirement home spaces in Ontario and a
population of seniors expected to double to nearly 4.1 million
within 25 years, according to the Ontario Seniors Secretariat
the need for regulation is long overdue. Vice President of CARP
Advocacy, Susan Eng acknowledged, "the proposed changes
recognize the growing need for more care services and
accommodation outside institutional settings and ensures that
the safety and quality of services in retirement homes meet the
standards we would want for ourselves and our loved ones." Read
more [
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]While CARP commends the Government for its efforts to ensure that Ontario's retirement homes are safe, secure and provide quality care, the haste with which the Bill is moving through the legislature may be jeopardizing its credibility and the strength of its regulatory framework.

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Are we getting value for our Health Care spending?.Not accorfing to the Health index

Are we , Canadains getting value for our Health Care spending?. The objective report card or index relative to Europe is no. We need improvements . We have A spending levels and C- D results or delivery  of front line health care services . If we know that there is a problem -we can fix it constructively    My summary of this useful objective information FCPP report - S,   (Please pass it on or make comment with your solutions ) 

 

http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3286

In Brief:

 The 3rd annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index compares the consumer-friendliness of the Canadian healthcare system to 33 European countries

• Canada lags while the Netherlands is tops
• Healthcare spending in Canada is comparable to the top-ranked European countries analyzed in this index but Canada still has a weak performance relative to Europe
• In Canada, wait times for diagnostic exams such as an MRI can last for months The typical wait time in top European countries is less than one week

Canada showed some signs of improvement in this year's index. Canada made minor improvements in its score in four of the five categories of indicators, with its score remaining unchanged in the fifth category.

Areas for improvement

The greatest weakness of Canadian healthcare remains long wait times. Wait times in Canada for diagnostic exams such as an MRI can last for months; in comparison, the typical wait time in top European countries is less than one week.  Wait times for orthopaedic surgeries such as hip replacements are also much longer in Canada than in most European countries.

Patient rights and access to information is another weak point for Canada. Bureaucratic obstacles and long waits often make it difficult for Canadians to access a second opinion about their own medical status, and patient rights are not codified in an explicit legislative guarantee

Access to the newest medicines is also somewhat delayed in Canada compared to Europe. It takes an average of 314 days for newly approved medicines to be entered in to provincial subsidy systems in Canada, compared to less than 150 days in countries like Ireland and Germany.

 

Action need-summary

"Most importantly, Canadians still face excessively long waiting periods for care. Canada spends as much money as the top performers on healthcare like the Netherlands and Germany, but we haven't been able to match their levels of efficiency. By looking at our own areas of relative weakness and examining European best practices, we can better understand where improvement is most needed and what sorts of reforms are likely to bring about measurable progress."

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Please hold the line -Dave -on rising healthcare costs

"This big-money, dirty-tricks campaign is an offensive attempt to manipulate people in my community in an attempt to preserve your profit margins at the inflated expense of those paying for needed medicine," Levac wrote.  http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2576307

We need calm thinking with proper and constructive solutions to the pending overinflated health care cost crisis. Venting with the same old "We the priviledged front line rhetoric" is not thinking or giving alternatives or constructive ways of solving the over heated costly( over 48% of the ON budget) health care crisis -a chance. Lets solve it -not yell at each other and besides that why wastefully shoot at or yell at the(your) messenger. His name is not Dalton. The Health Minister is the one who should be listening to your concerns and the constructive suggestions and options you are proposing .

Yes -we can do more,better with less and not at your expense -.If we can  flatten out the unnecessary redtape and expensive,wasteful bureaucratic /administrative layers- to good direct front line customer health services. Innovate a workable sustainable solution with your researchers and your customers please.

 

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hidden cost energy

No longer a benefit for customers
Posted By CHRISTINA BLIZZARD
Posted 5 days ago

Your hydro bill calls it a "provincial benefit." In truth, it's a
sneaky way to hike electricity rates -and pass along to consumers the
high cost of all those costly "green energy initiatives."

Consumers who signed contracts with electricity retailers and thought
they'd locked in their hydro costs are suddenly finding their bills
are skyrocketing -through a line called provincial benefit (PB).

The PB isn't new. It grew out of something called the "global adjustment."

And it's now worth $4.2 billion a year, and growing.

In a nutshell, there was a need to absorb costs for non-utility
generation (basically private power generation) built in the 1980s.
When the market later "opened" it was agreed the old Ontario Hydro
baseload nuclear and some of its hydro assets would also be included
in that adjustment. That morphed into the PB.

When the price of electricity was high, the PB was a negative amount.
Now that prices are low, the PB is soaring to compensate generation
companies -at the expense of people who thought they had guaranteed
electricity contracts.

The reason it's ballooned lately is because of all the massive green
energy contracts -the so-called feed-in tariff programs (FIT) -the
government has been signing on to, said New Democrat critic Howard
Hampton.

They include high-priced solar, biogas and biomass projects.

The suggestion it's a benefit is a "disgusting misuse of the English
language," he said.

The only people who benefit are the people getting lucrative contracts
to generate electricity.

Hampton said the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) should answer to the Legislature.

"The Ontario Power Authority, a body which is completely unaccountable
and can't be called before any legislative committee, has been out
there signing hydro contracts worth billions of dollars. That's not
factored into your hydro rate. But it has to show up somehow, because
we are going to spend billions of dollars for these sweetheart deals,"
Hampton said in an interview.

If you've stayed with your local utility, you don't have that line on
your electricity bill. The utility absorbs it. Only businesses and
consumers who signed up with retailers pay.

As the price of all these green projects increases, so too, will the PB.

"The McGuinty Liberals are going to make Ontario's electricity system
probably the most expensive on the continent with huge repercussions
for businesses and individual consumers," Hampton said.

As costs mount, the PB will become a black hole to hide the soaring
cost of electricity. What is most worrying is the loss of
transparency. When the market opened, your hydro bill was broken down
cost-by-cost: Delivery, generation and retirement of the provincial
debt. Now we have this catch-all PB.

A spokesman for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
said consumers should be wary of signing retail contracts without
knowing just what they are getting.

"We are trying to provide education and awareness that before you do
sign one of the contracts you should try to understand what it is you
are committing to and look at what you are now paying for versus what
that contract offers," said Terry Young. (Check www.ieso.ca

for more information.)

So beware of signing an energy contract with a retailer. Most of them
only include the market price of electricity. You'll have to pay the
PB on top of that.

In November, then-Energy Minister Gerry Phillips said he wanted to see
more transparency in electricity bills. Let's hope Brad Duguid, who
just shuffled into the energy portfolio, actually does something about
it.

Hey, everyone can dream.

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Fwd: Welcome to the latest issue of CARP Action Online!

a worthwhile read

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Saturday, April 24, 2010
April 26th 2010
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1. HIGH NOON FOR PENSION REFORM
2. BATTLE LINES HARDEN OVER DRUG REFORM PLAN
3. FINANCE COMMITTEE HEARING ON THE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY OF
CANADIANS
4. CARP CALLS FOR RETRACTION OF MISLEADING ADVERTISING BY
PHARMACISTS
5. SUSAN ENG TALKS DRUG REFORM ON THE BUSINESS NEWS NETWORK
6. PENSION REFORM - LESS TALK MORE ACTION
7. NEW HEALTH COUNCIL OF CANADA REPORT ON CHRONIC ILLNESS CARE
8. CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME IN MEN, PART II
9. SUSAN ENG ON THE AGENDA TO DISCUSS GENERIC DRUG PRICE CUTS
10. TWO PART PENSION REFORM VIDEO PRESENTATION BY SUSAN ENG
11. FEDERAL FINANCE MINISTER VISITS WINNIPEG FOR MEETING ON
OVERHAULING PENSION PLAN
12. ALBERTA PENSION REFORM CONSULTATIONS
13. ALBERTA PENSION REFORM CONSULTATION PAPER
14. CARP LETTER TO THE ALBERTA MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ENTERPRISE
15. CARP SUBMISSION TO ALBERTA PENSIONS CONSULTATION
16. CARP PRESENTATION TO THE ONTARIO STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
17. CARP IN MANITOBA
18. CARP IN MANITOBA
19. JIM FLAHERTY 'S POSITION STATEMENT ON PENSION REFORM
20. NOVA SCOTIA FINANCE MINISTER GRAHAM STEELE'S POSITION ON PENSION
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High noon for pension reform
by JONATHAN CHEVREAU
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It's "high noon for pension reform" and time to move from
debates to decisions, pension consultant Keith Ambachtsheer says
in a widely circulated new report. The president of KPA Advisory
Services Ltd. is pushing for a supplement to the Canada Pension
Plan that would benefit the 75% of Canadians who don't have
employer pensions. His focus on improving prospects for
middle-income Canadians earning $30,000 to $100,000 makes it one
of the leading contenders for reform. Originally published in
The Financial Post April 17th, 2010. To go to the Financial Post
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Battle lines harden over drug reform plan
by VIK KIRSCH
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Battle lines are being drawn in a growing skirmish between
pharmacists and Queen's Park over the Liberal government's
controversial drug reform plan to cut costs to the public purse.
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Finance Committee Hearing on the Retirement Income Security of
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In late March CARP was back on Parliament Hill to renew its call
for a Universal Pension Plan that would provide a retirement
savings vehicle for the one in three working Canadians who
retire without any savings. At a Committee hearing convened to
discuss the retirement income security of Canadians, CARP
presented its proposals and most recent poll results. Read more
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CARP calls for Retraction of Misleading advertising by
Pharmacists
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TORONTO, ON: CARP calls for Retraction of Misleading Advertising
by Pharmacists which deliberately misquotes a voluntary
chairperson of a local CARP chapter.Bruce Draper, the Chair of
CARP'S Windsor-Essex chapter is inappropriately and without his
consent or knowledge misquoted in a full page ad run in the
Peterborough Examiner today by the people behind www.stopcuts.ca
as saying "The McGuinty Government's health care cuts will hurt
seniors".Read more [
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Susan Eng Talks Drug Reform on the Business News Network
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Pension Reform - Less Talk more Action
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If talk is all we needed, then pension reform is all but
accomplished. You can't turn around without someone holding
forth an opinion on our retirement security or insecurity. And
all this talk has brought the industry players to the table with
their own new and improved offerings to help us out. And that's
the good news! Read more [
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New Health Council of Canada Report on Chronic Illness Care
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On April 28, the Health Council of Canada will release the third
bulletin in the Canadian Health Care Matters series. Beyond the
Basics: The Importance of Patient-Provider Interactions in
Chronic Illness Care, is based on an analysis of data from the
2008 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of
Sicker Adults. Read more [
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Chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men, PART II
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In this article I will continue to address CPPS, a serious and
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Susan Eng on The Agenda to Discuss Generic Drug Price Cuts
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On Tuesday April 22nd, Susan Eng joined The Agenda's Steve
Paikin for a panel discussion regarding recent drug reforms
targeting allowances paid to pharmacists by drug companies. Read
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Two Part Pension Reform Video Presentation by Susan Eng
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Susan Eng, CARP VP of Advocacy spoke at to the Ontario
Federation and Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress at a
pension summit held in April 2010. Read more... [
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Federal Finance Minister visits Winnipeg for meeting on
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Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty visited Winnipeg Monday
as part of a cross-country trek to get feedback on how to reform
Canada's pension plan. Flaherty said that the talks have
implications for all citizens. click here [
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Alberta pension reform consultations
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The Alberta government launched pension reform consultations and
issued a consultation paper that stressed the need for action to
improve Canada's retirement income system. Surprisingly, Alberta
Finance Minster Ted Morton appeared to resist reforming Canada's
retirement income system by suggesting that pension reform
should span a decade. Read more... [
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Alberta Pension Reform Consultation Paper
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CARP Letter to the Alberta Ministry of Finance and Enterprise
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CARP Presentation to the Ontario Standing Committee on Finance
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CARP in Manitoba
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CARP was invited to the federal pension reform roundtable in
Winnipeg where CARP's proposal for a Universal Pension plan was
presented directly to Finance Minister James Flaherty, Seniors
Minister Diane Ablonczy and Parliamentary secretary to the
finance minister, Ted Menzies. Manitoba finance minister Rosann
Wowchuk was also in attendance. Read more [
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Discrimination is bad -anykind establishes a bad precedent

Smokers given the boot... again

One more company is refusing to hire smokers... and somehow, the feds and media are perfectly O.K. with it.

St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, says it won't hire smokers ever again. Candidates for jobs will take nicotine tests... and if they fail, they're out.

Doesn't matter if they only smoke at home, at night, on weekends or once a month at Uncle Al's barbecue -- if they have nicotine in the system, they're not allowed in the St. Luke's system.

The saddest part is that this isn't the first time it's happened... and I'll bet my best cigar that it won't be the last. (Read, "Hospital tells tobacco users: You can't work here.")

Let's think about this for a minute.

Imagine companies that refused to hire blacks, fired all the Asians or told gays to go elsewhere. The media would go to town on them, and the Justice Department would have these people in court faster than you can empty an ashtray.

Not smokers. Smokers have no rights... even when they only smoke in their own homes. Left and right (but mostly left) they're being banned from honest work.

Companies say smokers cost more because they boost the price of health insurance for everyone. Yet they wouldn't dare fire all the fat people, despite the fact that obesity is a much bigger burden on the health care system.

It's time to either end discrimination -- or just bring it all back. If it's OK to send smokers packing, then it should be fine to refuse to hire blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Irish, the handicapped and heterochromiacs.

One or the other -- take your pick. But you can't have it both ways.

A fighter for the lighter,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Worrisome facts about over-medication

We're drugging ourselves right into the grave... and bad meds are only part of the problem.

A new report finds a shocking rise in the number of hospitalizations due to prescription drug poisonings, and it's not because people are trying to copy their favorite Hollywood has-been.

It's because too many people are being given these drugs in the first place.

Hospital admissions for poisonings due to opioids, sedatives and tranquilizers rose 65 percent between 1999 and 2006, from 43,000 to 71,000. Don't chalk those up to suicides -- those made up barely a third of the total, while accidental poisonings rose by 37 percent, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Accidental poisoning is now the second-leading cause of unintentional injury and death in 35-to-54 year olds, killing more of them than traffic accidents. Next time you open that pill bottle, imagine you're stepping out into traffic -- yes, it's that bad.

Blame Big Pharma for this -- their push for easy access to dangerous meds has paid off... with doctors who should know better handing out these drugs to people who don't need them.

Back pain? Have a painkiller. Arthritis? Have another painkiller. Stress? Here's some Valium.

Most docs can't be bothered to find the real cause of the pain... and they wouldn't know where to look even if they wanted to. But they do know another prescription will shut the whiners up for 30, 60 or 90 days.

Sound like anyone you know? Sound like you?

Remember, there's no such thing as a safe med -- and if you're playing prescription roulette, it's just a matter of time before you're hit with a side effect, overdose or worse.

If you've got a problem and your doc is just pushing pills at it, find yourself a new doc before you find yourself in the emergency room -- or the morgue.

Popping off on pill-pushers,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Johns Hopkins Update - cancer

-knowledge is power

Subject: Fw: Johns Hopkins Update on Cancer Prevention (a MUST read)       Johns Hopkins Update A Very Good Article  AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .  Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :  1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer       cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have     multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients     that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after       treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the     cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable     size.  2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a       person's lifetime.  3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer      cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and     forming tumors.  4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has     nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,     but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.  5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing      diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day      and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.  6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing     cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells     in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can      cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.  7.. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars      and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.  8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often     reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of     chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor     destruction.  9. When the body has too much toxic burden from     chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either     compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb     to various kinds of infections and complications.  10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to       mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.       Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other       sites. 11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer       cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.  *CANCER CELLS FEED ON:  a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made     with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute      would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small      amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in     color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.  b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the     gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting     off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer     cells are being starved.  c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based     diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat,     like chicken. Meat also contains livestock     antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all     harmful, especially to people with cancer.  d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole     grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into     an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked     food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live     enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to     cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance     growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building     healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most     vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw     vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at     temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..  e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high     caffeine Green tea is a better alternative e and has cancer     fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or     filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap     water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.  12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of       digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the       intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic       buildup.  13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By       refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes       to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the       body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.  14. Some supplements build up the immune system       (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,       EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy       cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known       to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's       normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or       unneeded cells.  15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.       A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior      be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put      the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to      have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy      life.  16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated       environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to       get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen        therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer       cells.  1. No plastic containers in micro.  2. No water bottles in freezer.  3. No plastic wrap in microwave..  Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.  Please share this with your whole email list.........................   Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.  This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.

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Q-jumpers-The Health Myth Busters: B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Q-jumpers-The Health Myth Busters: B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Performance funding - hospitals to get paid for reducing wait lines - no more block funding . --- seems like a solution whose time has come form the Globe and Mail .

B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

A useful read form the globe and mail

So much about health care doesn’t make sense when you think about it. Taxpayers get exercised when it’s revealed a politician has spent $40 on a bottle of champagne at some dinner yet they demand little accountability around the billions of dollars spent each year on health care. Politicians, meantime, are discovering the obdurate realities of providing a service for which demand is virtually unappeasable.

A novel idea -no more hospital block funding - hospital to get paid on performance delivery that reduce wait lines . What will they think of next ....... wow . QJ

Interesting notes on clean

Antibacterial madness could be killing us

We're so clean we're filthy. In fact, we're washing our way towards
illness and death.

Triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in soaps, detergents and even
clothing, has been sucking the human endocrine system dry. And as it
goes to work on your body, it's also helping to kill off common
bacteria... while allowing powerful new ones to rise.

What's truly amazing... what's really shocking... what should tell you
everything you need to know about this chemical... is that it's
actually a pesticide, not a soap.

You've probably been washing with it for years, then eating with your
"clean" hands.

The feds now say they're concerned about this chemical... but don't
wait for them to save your skin. The FDA has been working on rules for
the use of triclosan for 38 years -- so if they haven't figured it out
by now, you're on your own.

Here's what you need to know -- what even the feds already admit to:
This stuff is so dangerous it kills fish when it gets into the water.

And it's in the water -- because it's literally everywhere. Triclosan
can be found in everything from clothing to cutting boards. Pretty
much anything with the word "antibacterial" screaming from the label
has triclosan in it.

It's so common it's in the urine of 75 percent of the population.

And yet people keep buying up that antibacterial soap in the mistaken
belief that it must be better. After all, it costs more... so it must
be good, right?

Wrong!

Studies have repeatedly proven that antibacterial soaps are no better
than ordinary soaps.

That shouldn't surprise anyone past a certain age. We grew up without
this stuff, and didn't face anything like the bacterial threat running
rampant today.

So if you're looking to stay clean, just do what we did -- warm water
and plain old soap.

99 and 44/100 percent pure,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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