The liberal obsession with “mental health care” could be a serious threat to the basic freedoms of average Americans. This is exemplified by the recent efforts to make it illegal for the “mentally ill” to purchase guns— in other words, strip them of their Second Amendment Rights. On the surface, this doesn’t sound so bad;
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a warning about a particular strain of bacteria that is wreaking havoc in hospitals across the U.S. It is called Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE for short. The name of the bacteria comes from the family of antibiotics called carbapenems. They are drugs of last resort when other antibiotics do not work on an infection. Unfortunately, these bacteria are now showing resistance to carbapenems. The CDC is concerned because that means this strain of bacteria is now resistant to nearly all antibiotics currently available. Bacteria like
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by Jessica Whited, R.N. With hospitals mandating the flu shot and government agencies recommending it to be given to children as young as six months old every year for the rest of their lives (1), many would assume it must be proven to prevent most respiratory illness and is completely safe, right?  Let’s look at some facts, and then you can decide for yourselves. First of all, there are many different types of viruses that cause respiratory illness; the influenza virus, or the flu virus, only causes about 5 to 15 percent of those illnesses
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As the country reels from news of yet another senseless mass killing in suburban Milwaukee, coming on the heels of the even more deadly massacre in Aurora, Colorado, Americans are left to wonder what could possibly be responsible for this outbreak of bloody insanity and murder. But as terrible as these two incidents were, they have an undeniable ring of familiarity about them – since the year 2000, there have been twenty-six cases of mass murder (four or more victims) in the United States, as opposed to twenty combined during the 1980s and 1990s. And
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Mankind has spent the last 6000 years or so trying to subdue and conquer the forces of nature, while nature has spent the same amount of time frustrating and confounding these efforts. Man’s attempt to master the natural world has obviously not been a complete failure, as the rise of the modern civilization that we all know and sometimes love would not have been possible unless we had found ways to successfully impose our material culture across the face of the entire planet. But as successful as we have been in carving out a place
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Despite the howls of protest about the evils of regulation that constantly emanate from multination corporations and their mouthpieces, in most cases the regulatory agencies of the federal government actually have a very cozy and incestuous relationship with the industries they have been assigned to monitor. This “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” quid pro quo system clearly benefits both sides, as corporations and other powerful economic actors are largely given carte blanche to dictate how the rules will be written, while government bureaucrats know that once they leave government, they will always
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In the long and infamous history of the pharmaceutical industry, one of the all-time amazing achievements was pulled off in 1995 by a Stamford, Connecticut corporation known as Purdue Pharma. Somehow, this relatively unheralded drug company managed to convince the FDA to approve a prescription painkiller called Oxycontin for sale to the general public. This accomplishment was remarkable because Oxycontin is a powerful opiate, and just like any other opiate of similar strength, it causes feelings of euphoria in its users and is also highly addictive. Essentially, it is as if the government had suddenly
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While there are many controversies over the value of preventive medicine, there is one thing about which government health agencies, medical authorities, and most practicing physicians agree – vaccination is the most effective method available to protect people from the threat of infectious disease. The faith of the medical profession in the value of vaccines has only grown over time, and in the past three decades, the number of shots given to American children under the age of five has expanded more than three-fold. As most everyone is probably aware, vaccinations contain weakened samples of
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Lost in the healthcare debate is the serious problem of Big Pharma spending on marketing, advertising, and physician courting. While legislators and the public argue of the future of ObamaCare, pharmaceutical firms are putting down serious cash to ensure their drugs stay in your life no matter what. It’s no longer about your good health, preventing pain, or extending life. Large pharmaceutical companies around the world are spending more on marketing and advertising than they do on research and development, according to York University studies of pharmaceutical promotion. The net result is that what happens
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For many of us, getting older means a gradual increase in a range of ailments from minor to significant. Without a little outside assistance, things that our bodies were once able to do naturally and easily suddenly seem to go haywire. At the very minimum, waking up requires acknowledgement of a plethora of aches and pains that weren’t there just a few years ago. I loathe the fact that my once 20/20 vision now needs reading glasses; my knees have begun to make little popping noises, especially when it rains or it is extremely humid,
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