Elderly patients aggressively over-treated with pharmaceuticals

(NaturalNews) Researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration research group have determined that seniors over the age of 80 are being given too many drugs and in too high of doses. Particularly with high blood pressure, doctors are too aggressively treating the elderly with pharmaceuticals which is doing them more harm than good. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly a quarter of all Americans between 20 and 75 have hypertension while roughly 70 percent of those over 75 have it.. » read more

Lawmakers review 'male mutilation' (with audios)

Bill before legislature would ban circumcision Lawmakers in Massachusetts are attacking the practice by Jews and other groups of circumcision with a bill to label the process genital mutilation and outlaw it. The proposal would make Massachusetts the first U.S. state to take such action. The bill calls for outlawing circumcision of males of any age except in cases of medical necessity and also outlaws all forms of circumcision or alteration of the genitals in females.. » read more

How Obama’s Health Care 'Reform' Kills Health Care

It’s difficult to understand a subject when those explaining it are motivated not by truth, but profit.   In the case of health care, both Democrats and Republicans have huge financial incentives to obscure, mislead, or lie. Instead of common sense and honesty directing the debate, bags of money facilitate the conversation, funneled in from the health care industry via lobbyists into Congressmen’s pockets.  This is the real reason that Obama’s “health care summit” was full of free-market jargon, staged debate and fake rage.         The majority of working people in this country are completely alienated from this nonsense, and are growing progressively hostile to the lies of both parties and their respective media mouthpieces.. » read more

Inside the Administration’s Deal with the Pharmaceutical Lobby (with videos)

Last August, the Los Angeles Times [1] reported that a deal had been reached between the White House and the lobbying group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The pharmaceutical industry promised to deliver $80 billion in cost savings and to run television ads supporting the health care reform effort. In exchange, the White House would prevent Medicare renegotiation of drug prices and the re-importation of drugs from abroad. Now, in a methodically researched report [2] drawing on public records and press accounts, the Sunlight Foundation has gone back and forensically examined how the deal came to be. To get a full picture of the interlocking interests at work, the full piece is worth a read [2].. » read more

Pelosi: Public Option Is Off the Table

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) predicted Sunday that she would find the votes to pass a health care overhaul and said Democrats had already made major concessions to Republicans, including ditching the public insurance option. “A year later, we’re closer to what Republicans were suggesting at that time, an exchange and not a public option,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Pelosi said, “There is no public option on the table now.” Pelosi said all last year “was a year of trying to strive for bipartisanship,” but she said it failed because “we have a different value system here.. » read more

An American Cry for Help (videos with transcript)

Anchor, 'Countdown' - msnbc.com Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow's summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, I apologize in advance. Last Friday Night my father asked me to kill him. We were just shy of six months since he was hospitalized and it was the end of a long day at the end of a longer week.. » read more

Big Pharma Fabricates "Female Sexual Dysfunction" to Sell More Drugs

(NaturalNews) The pharmaceutical industry is attempting to convince the public that a variety of normal conditions affecting the majority of women should be classified as "female sexual dysfunction" and treated with drugs. The medical establishment has a long history of treating the female body as sexually dysfunctional, from when Hippocrates first attributed "hysteria" to a wandering uterus. According to JoAnn Wypijewski, former senior editor of The Nation, this perspective fell out of favor with the sexual revolution of the 1970s but has since re-emerged. "Today the cultural air is thick with sex, but the rhetoric of freedom and rights largely serves a commodified notion of sexual satisfaction," Wypijewski said. "The politics has dropped out, and without politics we're all just .. » read more

Toyota's consumer safety problems are dwarfed by body count of Big Pharma's deadly drugs

(NaturalNews) Even as Toyota now finds itself the target of an increasingly hyped-up inquisition about "public safety," skeptical consumers are asking the commonsense question: If public safety is so important, then why isn't Congress asking about the dangers of Big Pharma's deadly drugs? Toyota's problems with throttle controls and brakes haven't actually killed anyone as far as we know. Even if deaths have occurred, their number would be extremely small compared to the number of deaths caused by Big Pharma's products. FDA-approved pharmaceuticals kill nearly 270 people each day in the United States alone, and that's according to conservative calculations published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That's equivalent to a jumbo jet airliner falling out of the sky and crashing in a giant ball of flame every single day in the U.S.. » read more

Where's the Public Option?

resident Obama presented his revamped health care plan today. It is full of many of the right prescriptions for our ailing health care system. There was, however, a glaring omission. No public option? The plan does propose: "Every member of Congress will be required to purchase their insurance from the new health insurance exchange." Wait a minute here, does the president think that this provision will make health care affordable for all Americans? The last time I checked, members of Congress didn't need new options for health care; they can afford the status quo.. » read more

Republicans 'ready to participate' in Obama's health care summit

The Senate's top Republican promised Sunday morning that he and his members will attend President Obama's health care summit on Thursday "ready to participate" but said the Democrats are being "arrogant" by refusing to scrap their legislation and start over. "You know, they are saying, "Ignore the wishes of the American people. We know more about this than you do. And we're going to jam it down your throats no matter what," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Fox News Sunday.. » read more

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