Health

NOVANEWS by Tom Valentine   (This story was first written in 1966 by Tom Valentine of the Santa Maria Calif. Times, following Interviews with the father and son team of biochemists Ernst krebs Sr. and Jr.,who as the John Beard Foundation in San Francisco, challenged cancer dogma for decades, and were vilified for their work) There is an absolute monopoly when it comes to the approved treatments for cancer in the United States, and also in much of the world. This monopoly has prevented better, more effective, more scientific and far more humane treatments from being accepted by the cancer establishment and applied for the benefit of the deathly ill. The truth is, millions have suffered needlessly at the hands of their orthodox physicians. The fascist cancer monopoly is an embodiment o...

NOVANEWS   How feral felines (and their human friends) pounce on the planet — By Kiera Butler A little black cat lives in the crawl space under my house. Some weeks I see him every day, darting back into his burrow as I pull into the driveway. Then he'll disappear for weeks at a time, and just when I'm sure that he's found cushier digs, he comes back, like the cat in the old children's song. He's not much of a charmer—skinny, mangy, limping, and so feral that he bolts at the mere sight of people. But I can't help feeling sorry for him, so a few months ago I began leaving out cat food. I congratulated myself on this great solution: He'd get a square meal and maybe keep the mice away, too. But when I told an ecologist I know, she was horrified. "Basically," she said, "you'r...

NOVANEWS   By Kevin Drum Jarod Carruthers/Flickr While I was on vacation last week I took a side trip to New Haven to visit Jeff Park, an old high school friend who's now a geology professor at Yale. We ate some pizza at Frank Pepe, walked around the campus a bit, and then dropped by his office, where he had a stack of reprints of his latest journal article. Take one, he said. Maybe it'll be good fodder for the blog. The title is a mouthful: "Geologic constraints on the glacial amplification of Phanerozoic climate sensitivity," coauthored with Dana Royer. (The Phanerozoic, in case it's slipped your mind, is the geologic eon spanning approximately the last 500 million years.) Roughly speaking, the article is an updated look at a computer model that estimates how much clima...

NOVANEWS Salem-News.com writer Dr. Phil Leveque, who as a physician treated generations of military vets with PTSD; says the dangerous hard drugs provided by the government lead to addiction, destruction of families, disaster and death “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson by Marianne Skolek (MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) – Fox News reports that U.S. military troops are taking more prescription medication than ever. US troops Heavily Medicated on Prescription Drugs, the report warns. The bottom line is that the men and women of the US armed forces are taking more addictive medication than they ever have in the past. The Daily reported Wednesday, that the US Department of Defense doesn’t keep track...

NOVANEWS If America ever expects to fix its broken healthcare system, all of the problems must first be identified. Only then can a solution be engineered. While the problems can be seen in every aspect of the industry, one of the more obvious villains is the pharmaceutical industry. by Mike Stathis If America ever expects to fix its broken healthcare system, all of the problems must first be identified. Only then can a solution be engineered. While the problems can be seen in every aspect of the industry, one of the more obvious villains is the pharmaceutical industry. As most Americans are aware, the nation’s healthcare system was broken prior to Obamacare. Obama’s unwillingness to acknowledge this fact points to the inadequacies found within what he has labeled “healthcare reform...

NOVANEWS Part one of two by Tom Valentine (This story is from Tom Valentines archives circa 1996; Vaccines remain one of the most contentious issues today, with a determined anti-advocacy continuing to battle fascist monopoly medicine.) The idea of vaccinations to protect an individual against disease-causing germs was actually invented and practiced before mankind knew anything about germs. That’s right, it started early in the 1700’s when somebody got the idea (theory) that mixing the blood of a smallpox or plague survivor with an untested person might somehow pass along protection. They would make incisions in the hands or arms and much like we’ve seen “blood brothers” made in the movies, they would press the wounds together. History says Edward Jenner conceived of vaccinating peopl...

NOVANEWS Part two Vaccine History by Tom Valentine Paralytic polio was a scourge prior to the 1950’s (polio vaccine first arrived in 1955) and probably everyone in my generation can remember the March of Dimes campaigns with Eleanor Roosevelt leading the way. Well, today the scourge of “natural paralytic polio” has “vanished” due tounknown factors, but perhaps due to what molecular biologists today call “mutations due to gene drift” in the virus. Epidemiological studies show that polio mortality declined by 82% prior to 1956 in England and Wales. The same pattern emerged in France. The vaccine had nothing to do with any of it. After 10 years of polio vaccine availability (1966), the overall statistics indicated that polio had returned to where it had been in the 1920’s. And today, it is...

NOVANEWS   by Ed Mattson Group counseling to adjust to civilian society Last night on CBS’ 60 Minutes one of the segments was devoted to Adrenaline. This was a repeat of a previous show and the second time I watched it. The program showed how laboratory rats, when placed in a tub of water kept swimming close to the edge of the tub. There was a safety platform in the center of the tub where there would be no fear of drowning, yet the rats didn’t immediately swim to the safety of the platform. Once shown the platform, they willingly sought the middle of the tub on their next encounter with the water. The learning experience became re-enforced because of the high level of adrenaline that the rat produced showing that adrenaline is a key to long-term memory of life-threatening or shoc...

NOVANEWS   Dr. Atef Al Kahloot, head of the Medical Services in the Gaza Strip, reported Monday that all surgeries in hospitals across  Gaza Nazi Camp  have been put on hold until further notice as they ran out of anesthesia medications and supplies. Al Kahloot stated that all hospitals and medical centers in the Gaza Strip will be totally out of all supplies related to Anesthesia within 48 hours. Al Kahloot added that there are 180 types of medications that have run out of in addition to 200 types of medical supplies. He called on the international community and international human rights groups to intervene, and to save the residents from a serious humanitarian crisis. Al Kahloot further called on the Ministry of Health in the central West Bank city of Ramallah to act on sen...

NOVANEWS   Dear All, Today, Nick Clegg and David Cameron admitted that the original NHS plans were wrong, and accepted the need for changes.We've not won yet - but we definitely have made progress. According to Andrew Lansley's original timetable, the NHS changes would be law by now. We've helped stop that happen. Clegg and Cameron's speeches included some steps in the right direction. But we can't afford to drop our guard. For a start, these are just speeches – we haven't seen the full text of the proposed laws. We will need to scrutinise the plans line by line as they pass through parliament. We have got this far by working together. 38 Degrees members voted to start the campaign because we know just how important the NHS is - we can't trust it's future to politicians. If we keep wo...