Health Care

Prescription painkillers are the new gateway drug.

New pain pill five times more potent than existing pills. Funny how doctors want the FDA to ban it as if they have no power to not prescribe it.

Children of older fathers more likely to have mental illness, but mental illness is subjective and the cause could be environmental, so I remain skeptical.

Hillary offers wishy-washy support for Obamacare in a meaningless political statement.

More on the damage caused by mammograms.

"Annual mammograms for middle-aged women apparently “don’t save lives, but instead can cause over-diagnosis of cancers that won’t be fatal.”
“What mammography has done,” writes one physician, “is turn healthy people into sick but grateful cancer survivors.”
I’ll sound like a crank and a rube for pointing this out, so I’ll let (another) doctor do so: Mammograms “use ionizing radiation at a relatively high dose, which in and of itself can contribute to the development of”—duh—“breast cancer.”
And creepiest of all: Mammograms sometimes squish existing tumors and spread those cancerous cells even farther. Genius!"

Creepy and fantastically profitable.

"But don’t start twirling those mustaches yet, you smug, dastardly men.
The doctor who discovered the prostate-specific antigen screened for in PSA tests now says the test shouldn’t be used to screen for prostate cancer—at least to the extent it is today, thanks to all that Movember awareness-raising.
Dr. Richard Ablin says that “the urology community and drug industry misused the PSA test, putting money over the best interests of patients,” and the “US Food and Drug Administration failed in its duty to the public: its advisers warned that routine PSA screening would cause a public health disaster, but it was approved under pressure from advocacy groups and drug companies.”"

It's not about gender. It's about money in a fascist environment.

Benefits of natural sea salt.

Another establishment attack on healthy eating.