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7156. wonkers2 - 7/20/2007 3:17:57 PM 2008 brings big stakes for health care 7157. concerned - 7/20/2007 5:59:10 PM Re. 7155 -
Broccoli for breakfast? Isn't that taking things a bit far? Unless you're talking broccoli filled doughnuts, of course. 7158. concerned - 7/20/2007 6:02:02 PM Can you become 'addicted' to supplements? One weekend, I tried not taking mine and by Monday morning, I felt like I used to when I had a hangover, even though I had almost nothing to drink during the weekend. 7159. judithathome - 7/20/2007 8:51:43 PM Keoni is on week 4 of his Chantix (to stop smoking) and not only is he off ciggies, he isn't as enthusiastic about coffee, either. Bizarre, because he drinks coffee almost every waking hour. 7160. robertjayb - 7/26/2007 4:55:34 AM Scat! Get that cat outta here!
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.
His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," said Dr. David Dosa in an interview.
7161. wonkers2 - 7/26/2007 1:38:15 PM There must be a scientific explanation?? Maybe the cat is somehow speeding up the process! 7162. arkymalarky - 7/26/2007 1:42:03 PM Maybe when he curls up on their beds he's pinching an oxygen tube. 7163. Wombat - 7/26/2007 2:51:20 PM More likely, he doesn't get petted or otherwise fussed over, so he can get some rest. 7164. arkymalarky - 7/26/2007 5:34:24 PM OOoooh.
BTW, Wombat, did you get my email a while back? My syllabus was approved, so now all I have to do is implement it. ;-) 7165. Wombat - 7/26/2007 8:04:11 PM Arky:
Yes I did. I looked it over. I did have some comments, but obviously did not get around to sending them to you. I will do so today. I am glad that it was accepted. 7166. arkymalarky - 7/26/2007 9:10:42 PM Thanks so much! 7167. robertjayb - 7/28/2007 4:31:48 AM After Oscar, more on pets as health monitors... 7168. wonkers2 - 7/29/2007 3:19:30 PM Viagra anyone?7169. robertjayb - 8/7/2007 8:33:21 PM The case for single payer...
The American Prospect talks to the co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program about why a single-payer system remains not only the most desirable reform goal in the United States, but an achievable one.
7170. wonkers2 - 8/8/2007 1:45:59 PM The current health care system doesn't pay hospitals, doctors and nurses to keep peole healthy; it pays for tests, surgeries and drugs. So Americans often get expensive invasive care of dubious medical benefit while missing out on sensible basic care. Millions of other people go without any care for chronic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. If Medicare and private insurers paid for more preventive care, Americans would be healthier than they are today and live longer. No Free Lunch on Health 7171. robertjayb - 8/16/2007 6:39:19 PM He should have gone to an emergency room as * said.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.
According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their apartment and kissed her before throwing her over.
No emergency rooms charge, too. 7172. robertjayb - 9/13/2007 4:22:54 PM Women and heart attacks...a personal account...
Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms
that men have when experiencing heart attack...you know, the sudden
stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest &
dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of
one woman's experience with a heart attack.
(democratic underground)
7173. jexster - 9/14/2007 1:29:59 AM San Francisco Maps Unique Course to Universal Care 7174. thoughtful - 9/17/2007 5:38:41 PM Very interesting article in this week's nyt about what really makes us healthy and why so often the data is conflicting or the scientists seem to change their mind so frequently. I found this list amazingly short. Note to that high fat and cholesterol/heart attack link is NOT on the list.
Indeed, if you ask the more skeptical epidemiologists in the field what diet and lifestyle factors have been convincingly established as causes of common chronic diseases based on observational studies without clinical trials, you’ll get a very short list: smoking as a cause of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease, sun exposure for skin cancer, sexual activity to spread the papilloma virus that causes cervical cancer and perhaps alcohol for a few different cancers as well. 7175. thoughtful - 9/17/2007 5:41:44 PM The author of the above article, gary taube, has a new book coming out which is described as follows:
Starred Review. Taubes's eye-opening challenge to widely accepted ideas on nutrition and weight loss is as provocative as was his 2001 NewYork Times Magazine article, What if It's All a Big Fat Lie? Taubes (Bad Science), a writer for Science magazine, begins by showing how public health data has been misinterpreted to mark dietary fat and cholesterol as the primary causes of coronary heart disease. Deeper examination, he says, shows that heart disease and other diseases of civilization appear to result from increased consumption of refined carbohydrates: sugar, white flour and white rice. When researcher John Yudkin announced these results in the 1950s, however, he was drowned out by the conventional wisdom. Taubes cites clinical evidence showing that elevated triglyceride levels, rather than high total cholesterol, are associated with increased risk of heart disease-but measuring triglycerides is more difficult than measuring cholesterol. Taubes says that the current U.S. obesity epidemic actually consists of a very small increase in the average body mass index. Taube's arguments are lucid and well supported by lengthy notes and bibliography. His call for dietary advice that is based on rigorous science, not century-old preconceptions about the penalties of gluttony and sloth is bound to be echoed loudly by many readers. Illus. (Oct. 2)
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