Category: Health Care Policy (Page 17 of 22)

Meningitis Vaccine Now Recommended for 9 Month Old Babies

September 17, 2011 / Staff

Meningitis vaccines are now being given to 9 month old babies.

This raises the number of inoculations to over 20 before baby’s first birthday.

For parents concerned about the effect of inoculations this comes as just more bad news.

What has been occurring is a surge among the very young with vaccine injury related deaths, as in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), various forms of paralysis, disabling seizures, autism spectrum behavior often with extreme bowel disorders, ADHD, asthma, and food allergies. The kids are worse off now than before.
Most of these alarming events have occurred shortly after vaccinations, especially after a barrage of multiple shots in one day, or within the same time frame as a scheduled series.

While there has been no direct link acknowledged by the medical community between childhood vaccines and SIDS, Autism, Seizures or mental defect it has also not been disproven to the satisfaction of many parents.

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Obama’s Health Care Reform Upheld in Court

September 10, 2011 / Staff

Obama’s health care bill is not overturned in a court ruling.

Obama wins this round and now has the Tea Party and Republican party with whom to do battle at the primaries.

A sluggish economy and poor jobs market may just be the momentum behind the president to make this law stick.

But does it help anyone to be required to buy into a broken health care system?

Standardizing costs and preventive health care should be the priority. Supporting big pharmaceutical companies with tax payer dollars will not help in the long run.

“Virginia, the sole plaintiff here, lacks standing to bring this action,” said the ruling from the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. “Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of the district court and remand with instructions to dismiss the case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.”
The Richmond-based court becomes the second such federal court to uphold the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, particularly the “individual mandate” provision requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face a financial penalty. Another appeals court had ruled against the administration.

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Increased Risk of Cancer Plagues 9/11 NYC Firefighters

September 6, 2011 / Staff

9/11 NYC Firefighters are at higher risk of cancer years after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Researchers have reported the presence of hundreds of compounds in ground zero dust, among them known carcinogens. Potential cancer-causing agents such as asbestos that coated the Trade Center buildings’ lower columns, and benzene, a component of jet fuel that caused uncontrollable fires when planes barreled into the twin towers, have been a cancer concern for researchers.

Responders are struggling to pay the medical bills caused by cancers.

Many suspect that this is the tip of the iceberg.

As new cases continue to emerge the financial burden adds to the tragedy of 9/11.

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Pediatricians Turn Away Children Without Vaccinations

September 3, 2011 / Staff

Parents failure to immunize their children could lead to conflict with pediatricians.

On one hand, doctors are there to treat everyone, and turning patients away leaves them still unvaccinated and without care. But an unvaccinated child who is carrying a virus is “literally a walking Typhoid Mary” who puts other children in a waiting room at risk.

Unvaccinated children who carry a disease infect those infants and smaller children who are too young to be inoculated and are therefore vulnerable to illness.

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Obesity Hurts Everyone

August 29, 2011 / Staff

If you think that being overweight effects only the obese then think again.

Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable cause of chronic non-communicable diseases, and will add an extra 7.8 million cases of diabetes, 6.8 million cases of heart disease and stroke, and 539,000 cases of cancer in the United States by 2030.
Some 32 percent of men and 35 percent of women are now obese in the United States, according to a research team led by Claire Wang at the Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University in New York. They published their findings in a special series of four papers on obesity in The Lancet.

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