The Real Cost of Not Immunizing
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Can you imagine a child getting sick or harmed from your refusal to protect them? How about the observation that routine childhood immunizations may reduce the risk of leukemia? [1]
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Multivitamins--No Benefit in the Big "C" Diseases
This article is posted in:Multivitamins Don't Reduce the Risk of Cancer or Cardiovascular Disease in Women Background Millions of postmenopausal women use multivitamins, often believing that supplements prevent chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Therefore, we decided to examine associations between multivitamin use and risk of cancer, CVD, and mortality in postmenopausal women.
Prevent 2/5 Cancers
This article is posted in:About 40% of cancers could be prevented were people to stop smoking and overeating, limit alcohol intake, exercise regularly and get vaccines that target cancer-causing infections (e.g., HPV, Hepatitis B). For more information, see: the International Union Against Cancer's, "UICC Population Survey of Cancer-related Beliefs and Behaviours" (PDF), the World Cancer Campaign, “Today’s children, tomorrow’s world” or contact [email protected] directly.
Preventing Group B Strep Disease in Newborns
This article is posted in:Group B Strep, a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality since the 1970s: The Standard of Care A mother-to-be has Group B Streptococcus; she isn't sick from it but, unfortunately transmits it to her infant who becomes devistated by the bacteria. Could the transmission have been interrupted? Could the infection have be anticipated and made impotent before wreaking damage?
Expert Opinions on Health from Harvard
This article is posted in:Be Well-Informed From Harvard's Medical School Faculty Focus on Fitness Get up off the couch and follow Dr. Howard LeWine and Dr. Paulette Chandler's advice on staying fit no matter what your age or condition. Medical Myths Warts from touching toads? No swimming after eating? Myth master Dr. Rob Shmerling separates the facts from the far-fetched. A Parent's Life
What are we, some 3rd world country?
This article is posted in:Why could the British eliminate the threat of Salmonella in eggs, but WE, the most advanced (ha) country in the world, could not? Note: Small-scaled trials demonstrate vaccine effectiveness. Nevertheless, in a typical demur citing 1999 data,"the F.D.A. said that only large-scale field trials could prove that a vaccine would work in the real world of commercial henhouses....Dr.
Managed Care Mindset Results in a Coronary
This article is posted in:Tim Russert’s sudden death last week at 58 from a heart attack was another statistic in that he was being treated for CAD and his doctors “did not realize how severe the disease was." Is the managed care mindset detrimental to getting the right care at the right time and place?? From my blog on MDNG.com, "Sudden Death in Coronary Artery Disease"— Originally posted June 18, 2008
Free Tags:Cutting health care and entitlement costs?!?
This article is posted in:"President Obama has been thrown back on his original theory. If he is going to sustain his agenda, if he is going to prevent national insolvency, he has to control health care costs.
