Tag: Healthcare & Hospitals

A recent study that took place at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, found that lab coats, scrubs, and...

According to recent information from the American Cancer Society, cancer-related death rates are 22 percent lower for men and nearly...

Why is it that in the world of "scientific" medicine, deeply ingrained beliefs (e.g. flu shots, statin drugs, antidepressants, hormone...

A recent study by the US Government has found that medical staff at hospitals contribute to the deaths of approximately...

Make no mistake; whatever happens in these elections will make little difference in the downward spiral we are about to...

Healthcare spending in Canada, which accounted for 35% of provincial budgets in 1999, now accounts for 46%.

Health care costs for people 64 and younger buying their own health insurance increased by an average of 20 percent.

Last month, the pharmaceutical manufacturing giant Pfizer disclosed that it paid more than $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other...

When it comes to the current healthcare bill, everyone is wrong and heading for a world of hurt. And for...

Medical peer-reviewed journals are not the be-all and end-all when it comes to identifying which treatments work, and which ones...

The costs associated with health care are becoming impossible. The American model is headed for disaster, but so are all...

The FDA, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, GlaxoSmithKlein, Donald Rumsfeld, and the U.S. Senate have all been...

Kudos to the medical establishment in honor of the things they are finally getting right. If only they could go...

Until the alternative health community learns to stop focusing exclusively on "big picture" issues such as Codex and Congressional bills...

Scientists in Australia have designed miniature robots capable of navigating human blood vessels.

People want to know what Politicians are going to do about the critical state of healthcare and the spiking trends...

The only way that health care can survive -- the only way you can survive -- is if you take...

In the last year, about 750,000 patients sought cheaper, friendlier, safer medical treatment via 'medical tourism', outside the borders of...

A recent Associated Press article picked up by the international media reports how a sick 11-year-old girl died after her...

Massachusetts state governor has allocated a 40 percent increase in the fiscal 2009 budget to cover the increasing cost of...

We already knew that a huge number of accidents, secondary infections, and unnecessary deaths occur inside the world's hospitals, but...

A study done out of the University of Chicago, found that on average 45% of physicians prescribe placebos regularly. This...

How can any health-care system survive up to half its population living for 20--30 years with severe diabetes (as predicted...

New Jersey recently passed a resolution requiring that children over 6 months of age who attend public schools or day...

Your government, whichever one it is, is not necessarily putting your health interests first when determining government health policy.