Are you interested in learning the economics of health and medicine? Are you a skeptic of Natural Medicine? Are you a proponent alternative medicine? We would like to highlight this article published by Time Magazine in 2004. In light of the recent uprising of the Occupy Wall Street movement, many of us find ourselves defining or defending our beliefs. This article dives into issues concerning drugs, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry and politics. Please take a minute and read.
Helen Clark of Kennebunk, Maine, is a smuggler of sorts. At 77, the retired registered nurse doesn’t look the part. She still does volunteer work–administering flu shots, cutting toenails and organizing blood drives–at the Southern Maine Medical Center, where she worked for more than four decades, first in the maternity ward and later in the operating room.Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993223,00.html#ixzz1eBO4npu6
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Even if you exercise regularly, it might not be enough to counteract the effects of too much sitting.
Many people have sedentary jobs and also engage in sedentary leisure activities after work, with the result that a lot more time is spent sitting than moving. A study calculated how much time a group of men spent sitting during an average day, and found that those who sat during the day were substantially more likely to die of heart disease.
According to NPR:
“Specifically … men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity. And many of these men routinely exercised … [S]cientists are just beginning to learn about the risks of a mostly sedentary day.”
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Robert MacNeil, former anchor of the PBS program NewsHour, takes viewers on a visit with his 6-year-old autistic grandson, Nick, to see how autism affects the whole family.
In the video Nick’s mother, Alison McNeil, states:
“… So we went from a 15-month appointment where this child was A-OK, supposedly, and given the MMR, the DTaP and the Hib vaccines. People say to me, Alison, it’s a coincidence. Alison, how do you know this happened? Well, it’s impossible for me to know. But what I will say is this: It was not a coincidence that my child was diagnosed with autism at the same time that his whole system shut down. Something happened to my child.”
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Severely straightened hair ala Hollywood movie star-style may be wildly popular right now, but there’s a downside to the “Brazilian blowout” that the Office of Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) wants you to know about. According to Time Healthland, the chemicals needed to achieve this ultra-straight-hair look include formaldehyde, which has been linked to allergies, blistered skin and other serious reactions. And often, workers in salons don’t know that they and their clients are being exposed to this dangerous situation. Time Healthland said:
“California says that state testing has shown that Brazilian Blowout Smoothing Solution contains approximately 8 percent formaldehyde by weight, which ‘is in the range typical of embalming fluid used by funeral homes.’”
Canada pulled products like this off the shelves six months ago. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates cosmetics, hasn’t taken that step yet. And for activists, Time Healthland said, this points out yet another problem in the U.S.: regulation of the cosmetics industry is fundamentally lacking.
In another illustration of mind over matter, a researcher at Nottingham University, England found that simply creating an optical illusion for arthritic pain sufferers can ease the pain. For the illusion to work, patients place their hand inside a box containing a camera, which then projects the image in realtime onto a screen in front of them, the BBC reported.
The pain eases when subjects see their arthritic fingers apparently being stretched and shrunk by someone gently pushing and pulling from the other side of the box. It’s all a computer trick, of course, but the implications of what this completely drug-free method can do are enormous.
A drug-safety watchdog group is calling for the ban of the popular diet drug Alli, one of the nation’s most marketed over-the-counter (OTC) weight loss drugs. According to Cleveland.com, Public Citizen sent a 31-page letter to the FDA summarizing its concerns about the drug. Alli’s active ingredient is orlistat, which Public Citizen says can “expose patients to serious risks that greatly outweigh their minimal clinical benefits.”
Alli works by blocking the absorption of fat in the body. Alli’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) maintains that Alli is safe. But scientists in Canada say they’ve found that Alli users showed a 2 percent increase of kidney damage within one year of starting the drug. Alli’s sales plummeted after users began reporting other side effects that included loose stools, oily spotting of underwear, fecal urgency, and flatulence with discharge.
Also, last year the FDA made GSK add a warning to Alli’s label about rare reports of “severe liver injury.” On a side note, GSK announced that it was selling off the drug.
A video on YouTube on the biochemistry of fructose and posted in July 2009 has gone viral, with more than 800,000 views so far. People are going to the site at the rate of 50,000 a month, even though it’s 90 minutes long, The New York Times reports. Calling sugar a “toxin” or a “poison” 13 times, and referring to it as “evil” five times, the video’s author, Robert Lustig explains that sugar is sugar, whether it’s the white granulated stuff – commonly known as sucrose – or high fructose corn syrup. And his stance has nothing to do with calories, according to the NYT: “It’s a poison by itself,” he says.
“If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years,” the NYT says. “But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.”
The NYT added that Lustig has “a mass” of evidence to back up his claims.
Are you interested in learning the economics of health and medicine? Are you a skeptic of Natural Medicine? Are you a proponent alternative medicine? We would like to highlight this article published by Time Magazine in 2004. In light of the recent uprising of the Occupy Wall Street movement, many of us find ourselves defining or defending our beliefs. This article dives into issues concerning drugs, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry and politics. Please take a minute and read.
