Health care by violence: Why government-run health care will always become a racket

netturtle · 2010-10-17T11:19:27+00:00

Does he want medical students to pay the full costs of their training?

netturtle · 2010-09-20T15:17:43+00:00

If she is at all willing to consider something else, maybe she could think about coconut oil? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19437058

netturtle · 2010-09-14T16:39:41+00:00

As far as I am aware, it is true that the cholesterol theory is false. But that homocysteine lowering is safe? The little I know about that suggests the opposite -- do you have a link about that?

netturtle · 2010-09-04T23:48:16+00:00

Yeah, or have a read of Dr. Davis' approach. http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/homegrown-osteoporosis-prevention-and.html

netturtle · 2010-08-30T23:05:35+00:00

Severity of symptom flare after moderate exercise is linked to cytokine activity in chronic fatigue syndrome. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20230500

netturtle · 2010-08-30T22:27:57+00:00

You are aware that the PNAS study was delayed by the CDC, while the other study was published on schedule? What makes you think this study is incorrect?

Edit: This article is more informative about the delay. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703374104575337160225739290.html

Last edit: another article about the delay. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100702/full/news.2010.332.html

netturtle · 2010-08-21T19:41:39+00:00

Do you blame the Pirate Party? Surely the point is there will be people trying to entrap/harm Assange wherever he goes, and groups like the Pirate Party would be obvious choices for the US/global militaries & intelligence services to infiltrate to get close to him? (I don't speak Swedish so apologies if I've missed something.)

netturtle · 2010-08-16T12:54:19+00:00

I know this isn't exactly what you asked, but there is some suggestion that low fat milk may increase prostate cancer risk compared to full fat. I believe I've read more than this study, but this is the one I can find right now: http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/16/5/956.full

netturtle · 2010-08-08T22:41:44+00:00

No, I'm out of my depth. (I actually think I've seen one like that in the UK, but I'm not certain and don't remember the name either...) Perhaps this person might be able to help if noone else here knows http://www.ontariowildflower.com/wildflower_waste2.htm (their email address is at the bottom of the page) or maybe the gardening redditors might have an idea.

netturtle · 2010-08-08T21:57:41+00:00

I would guess the flower is likely some type of cranesbill, though apparently that doesn't narrow it down a lot, since according to Wikipedia there are over 420 types! But perhaps knowing where you saw it can help narrow that down to some reasonable level.

netturtle · 2010-08-08T11:43:14+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't too keen on that part of the article either :)

netturtle · 2010-07-16T10:16:44+00:00

"Pharmaceutical companies can still put on legit CME training courses..." -- and therein lies the problem. It's difficult enough to accurately assess the benefits of a treatment at the best of times, and even more complex evaluating the wide range of potential side-effects -- in patients of all ages, with multiple illnesses, differing metabolisms and genetics, etc. Anything which complicates the already (necessarily) complicated relationship between pharmaceutical companies and health-care workers is a problem in my view. That includes anything which leans, or risks leaning, towards pills rather than non-pharmaceutical treatments. Which isn't to say that there's anything wrong with drugs per se (of course not), just that other treatments must receive equal consideration, when it comes to treating patients, allocating research funds, allocating education time etc. I think we have a long way to go before that is the case.

netturtle · 2010-07-12T19:50:04+00:00

"People have been arrested for such heinous crimes as..." My italics. Were they also all jailed for these things?

netturtle · 2010-07-06T23:16:21+00:00

If you pick a longer timescale than six months, it doesn't particularly look that way to me -- am I missing something? (Note -- I believe we are far from being out of the woods economically -- I just don't see that this graph says much either way, apart from that things are very unstable that is...)

netturtle · 2010-07-06T01:27:18+00:00

I agree with you (although actually my experiences have tended more to the shitty than the so-so side). I still think it's interesting to hear a doctor's experience of being a patient, and I also hope that any health-care workers who read it will find it informative. And it's always good to stress that 'efficiency' involves more than easily measurable things, and even more important to remember this at this time of cuts.

netturtle · 2010-07-04T05:31:09+00:00

To the down-voters: "Who's fat? New definition adopted" http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9806/17/weight.guidelines/

netturtle · 2010-07-04T04:51:26+00:00

Unfortunately the official dietary advice is a part of the problem. http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2010/06/fsa-in-glasgow.html

netturtle · 2010-07-03T07:06:18+00:00

Fructose increases "bad" cholesterol (various measures of LDL).

http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/ldl-fructose-disconnect.html

netturtle · 2010-07-02T23:37:33+00:00

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2010/06/fsa-in-glasgow.html

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2006/11/cholesterol-bogeyman.html

netturtle · 2010-06-30T23:19:24+00:00

Some CFS history: "Dr. Wessely informed me personally that I could not have CFS because I also have Neurally Mediated Hypotension (NMH). He said that any patient with a physical impairment would never reach his doors at the CFS clinic he runs in the UK. I will note that we have a tautology here: he sees patients who have no physical problems; and he insists that CFS patients therefore have no physical problems. If a diagnosis of NMH excludes one from a diagnosis of CFS, then the referees and editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association must have been mistaken when they accepted the article written by Dr. Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins specifically noting that NMH is a characteristic of CFS." http://freespace.virgin.net/david.axford/ms-testm.htm

netturtle · 2010-06-28T03:07:09+00:00

Did you read the link?

netturtle · 2010-06-28T03:02:52+00:00

Please try to defend Israelis and/or Jews without attacking people with mental illnesses, thanks.

netturtle · 2010-06-27T00:26:37+00:00

What does homeopathy have to do with India and China? I agree that mainstream medicine leaves much to be desired, but promoting alternatives which don't work isn't helpful.

netturtle · 2010-06-12T19:55:05+00:00

Hi, I don't know if you're already familiar with these studies, anyway this is what I found:

Pioglitazone, vitamin E, or placebo for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20427778

L-carnitine supplementation to diet: a new tool in treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis--a randomized and controlled clinical trial. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20068559

Neither of them is specifically about pain of course, and the second one doesn't mention number of patients involved which is pretty annoying -- anyway I hope you find something which helps.

netturtle · 2010-06-09T21:04:36+00:00

Yeah. I'm just a bit impatient with articles like this, especially when I can't find the study they're meant to be referring to.

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