The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling nearly 500,000 pacemakers — the device that controls one’s heartbeat — citing concerns that they are vulnerable to hacking. The FDA issued the recall Tuesday for 465,000 pacemakers created by health company Abbott Laboratories (formerly St. Jude Medical)…
Monsanto Attempts Takedown of Agency Linking RoundUp to Cancer…
Monsanto is on the attack. In its fight to keep its blockbuster weedkiller glyphosate on the European market, the American agrichemical giant has spent the last six months fighting accusations that it suppressed negative findings or even ghostwrote key research about whether the herbicide causes cancer. Now the company is opening a new…
Fleas in Two Arizona Counties Tested Positive for the Plague…
Navajo County public health officials announced Friday that fleas collected near the town of Taylor tested positive for Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the Bubonic plague, the Associated Press reports. The announcement came one week after Coconino County officials first discovered fleas in the area found to be carrying the plague…
Beware of the ObamaCare Bailout…
For seven years Republicans have solemnly promised to abolish the financially crumbling ObamaCare law. But now that they have struck out, many in the GOP are working behind closed doors to bail out the very program they say they hate. If they moderate wing of the party prevails and rescues the ObamaCare entitlement, the law […]
Unfriggibelievable!!!: Health Insurers in Idaho Request Premium Rate Hikes as High as 81 Percent!!!
Health care insurers in Idaho have requested premium rate hikes as high as 81 percent for next year, according to the state’s Department of Insurance. The five insurers serving the individual market in Idaho are Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service, Mountain Health Co-Op, PacificSource Health Plans, Regence BlueShield of Idaho, and SelectHealth…
Losing Sense of Smell Appears to Predict an Early Death…
People who lose their sense of smell in middle or older age risk dying early, a new study suggests. Although previous research has shown a link between Alzheimer’s disease and a diminished sense of smell, it is the first time is has been shown to impact the chance of death for everyone. Scientists from Stockholm […]
There Is a Simple Way to Improve the World’s Food Systems…
In recent decades, the international community has made impressive strides against hunger and undernourishment, as amply evidenced by the data from the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Between 1990 and 2014, for example, the proportion of undernourished people in the world dropped from over 23 per cent to under 13 per cent, remarkable […]
The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers – They’re Dying and the Media Is Silent…
The legacy of death and misery from the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan continues today, and, once again, Dick Cheney plays a central role. A new book by Joseph Hickman, a former U.S. Marine and Army sergeant, titled “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” details how soldiers and local civilian populations were exposed […]
John Boehner: ‘Repeal and Replace’ Won’t Happen…
When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, former House Speaker John Boehner eschews altogether the alliterative “repeal and replace” phrasing favored by his fellow Republicans. The repeal-and-replace branding is mere “happy talk,” he said Thursday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Orlando, Fla. “[Congressional Republicans are] going to fix Obamacare…
Bill Gates Warns Tens of Millions Could be Killed by Bio-Terrorism…
A chilling warning that tens of millions of people could be killed by bio-terrorism was delivered at the Munich security conference by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. Gates, who has spent much of the last 20 years funding a global health campaign, said: “We ignore the link between health security and international security at […]
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