Boogai: Caring for a loved one with dementia is difficult. AFS provides a wealth of helpful information in this arena – no matter what state you’re located. Though the data is tailored to those with dementia, the information is helpful in most caregiving scenarios. The cover page allows you to forward a notice of its availability to a friend.
By Alzheimers Family Services, Pensacola
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By CBNNews.com
President Barack Obama’s health care law will force religious employers to pay for birth control pills, including controversial drugs that can abort early pregnancies.
Church-affiliated hospitals, colleges, social service agencies, and other nonprofit institutions will have a year to comply with the federal law.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the proposal a compromise. read on
By Kristina Chew, Care2.com
The FDA has agreed to move forward with accelerating the development of an artificial pancreas that could free children and adults with type 1 diabetes from painful injections. In just 23 days, over 100,000 people — including Care2 members who signed this petition — joined together to call for swift action on the creation of artificial pancreas technology.
The artificial pancreas is an external device. People with type 1 diabetes could use it to “do what their bodies cannot — control both high and low blood sugar around the clock.” The device has both a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and an insulin pump which, via sophisticated computer software, can provide the right amount of insulin at the right time and automatically. With such a device, those with type 1 diabetes would be “freed from the daily burden of managing the disease.” read on
| On Thursday, December 15, Michael Farris* and the Michigan legal team presented a petition to dismiss the case against Ken and Erin Stieler. You will recall that young Jacob Stieler’s parents had opted not to subject him to further chemotherapy once multiple PET scans showed that his cancer was gone, but the state Health & Human Services department filed charges of medical neglect against those loving parents. read on |
By Dr. Mercola
If you value your health, you would be wise to avoid fast food restaurants at all costs.
Not only does the fast food diet promote high cholesterol, hypertension, heart attacks, obesity and diabetes; such foods are also laden with added chemicals, and virtually all animal based food comes from factory farms.
The latter issue is highlighted in a recent announcement that McDonald’s and Target will no longer purchase their eggs from Sparboe Farms. read on
By Judicial Watch
In just a few days a new Obamacare tax—that will double the following year—will kick in to fund “comparative effectiveness research” that’s supposed to help the government save money by finding ways to ration healthcare.
This is crazy; a semi-secret tax so the feds have cash to pay bureaucrats to examine everyone’s health records and, in turn, the government can save money by cutting back on care. The official plan, as noted by a national news wire this week, is to conduct research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. It’s part of a “little-known provision” of the president’s socialist takeover of the nation’s healthcare system. read on
By Life Enthusiast Co-op International
In 1928 Richard Simmons, MD hypothesized that cold and flu viruses (or viri) enter through the ear canal. His findings were dismissed by the medical community. According to Dr. Simmons, contrary to what you may think or have been taught about how you catch the flu or the cold there is only one way that you can catch the two, and that’s via the ear canal not through the eyes or nose or mouth as most have believed.
Keeping your fingers out of your ears will greatly reduce your chances of catching them, but then again these two are microscopic and can be air-borne and may land on or even in your ear. Once they have entered the inner-ear (middle-ear) there they begin their breeding process, and from there they have access to every avenue throughout our body to travel to and to infect and make us sick. read on
By Alliance for Natural Health
Forget the embarrassment of your private parts being seen by strangers. The scanners can cause cancer—and TSA is trying to keep you from knowing about it.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses two types of body scanners. The backscatter machines are of particular concern because these X-ray scanners emit low levels of radiation and can cause cancer. The European Union has even put a moratorium on the scanners in light of the cancer threats—member states have been told not to install scanners until scientific assessment of risks has been carried out, and they will be banned completely in April if experts find them dangerous—but the US has so far swept the safety issues under the carpet. read on
By Alliance for Natural Health
They no longer need evidence that a product is harmful. Just a suspicion that there’s an error in the paperwork.
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law on January 4 of this year. For the past several months we’ve been sharing our concern over one of the FSMA’s mandates that eventually developed into the disastrous NDI draft guidance. There are only a few days left to tell the FDA what you think about these new anti-supplement rules—FDA’s public comment period ends this Friday, December 2. Please take action today, if you haven’t done so already! read on
By Alliance for Natural Health
FDA’s prescription for bone health and osteoporosis has been shown to make bones far more fragile in the long term, and may even cause jaw death and esophageal cancer.
Bisphosphonate drugs are used for treatment of osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in post-menopausal women. The drugs, which are sold under the brand names Actonel, Atelvia, Boniva, and Reclast, have supposedly been shown to reduce the risk of breaking a hip by 40 to 50 percent and fracturing a vertebra by between 40 and 70 percent. read on
