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Selections from Natural Health News Natural Health News: Real  EMF  Danger Jul 15, 2010 Real EMF Danger. Vatican radio waves blamed for high cancer risk  ...  Posted by herbalYODA at 15:49 · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels: cancer and EMF, EMF. 1 comments: West Coast Family  ... http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/ Natural Health News: Real  EMF  Danger: Your Brain on a Cell Phone Jun 05, 2010 (CNN) -- San Francisco, California, likely will become the first U.S. city to require cell phone companies to disclose how much radiation their gadgets emit. The city's board of supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday in favor of a law  ... http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/ Natural Health News: Cell Phones, Other  EMF  Exposure and Your  ... May 01, 2010 MAY IS ELECTROSENSITIVITY MONTH, many states are promoting this as a health education event. Cell Phone Radiation Levels · FCC Consumer Resources: Wireless Device...

5% of Americans Made Up 50% of U.S. Healthcare Spending And the top 1%? They made up one fifth of medical expenditures. from The Atlantic "When it comes to America's spiraling health care costs, the country's problems begin with the 5%. In 2008 and 2009, 5% of Americans were responsible for nearly half of the country's medical spending. Of course, healthcare has its own 1% crisis. In 2009, the top 1% of patients accounted for 21.8% of expenditures. The figures are from a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services , which examined how different U.S. demographics contributed to medical costs. It looked at the $1.26 trillion spent by civilian, non-institutionalized Americans each year on health care. The top 5% of spenders paid an annual average of $35,829 in doctors' bills. By comparison, the bottom half paid an average $232 and made up about 3% of total costs. Aside from the fact that such a tiny fraction of the country was responsible for so much ...

UPDATE : 26 January Dialing for Doctors -  Financial Ties Bind Medical Societies to Drug and Device Makers 18 January To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment. Many researchers  have found evidence  that such payments can influence doctors’ treatment decisions and contribute to higher costs by encouraging the use of more expensive drugs and medical devices. Consumer advocates and members of Congress say patients may benefit from the new standards, being issued by the government under the new  health care law . Officials said the disclosures increased the likelihood that doctors would make decisions in the best interests of patients, without regard to the doctors’ financial interests.   Read complete article

UPDATE:15 January 2012 Once again energy drinks are in the news and it appears that it isn't good (no surprise!). Agence France-Presse reports that " Australia experts call for energy drink warnings". We encourage you to check out the almost two dozen articles we have posted on Natural Health News about this subject .  We also invite you to consider our organic natural herbal blend, herbalYODA's sportZtea, in place of these drinks over loaded with caffeine, artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, and worst of all artificial sweeteners like aspartame, acesulfame K, and Splenda.  The sports food bars are not far off with too much sugar and too many GMO ingredients. Learn more here and here . Researchers in Australia called for health warnings on caffeine-loaded energy drinks following a spike in the number of people reporting medical problems after drinking them. Health professionals from the University of Sydney 's Medical School and the New South Wales Poi...

In the past few months there has been more flurry over commercially prepared orange juice on the tails of Dr Oz raising the arsenic flag for apple juice. In this article by Alyssa Hamilton from 2009 she makes the case against OJ in the box. It’s orange juice season. More precisely, it’s the season of the Florida Valencia, considered the “Cadillac of oranges” within the orange juice industry for its deep orange color, high juice content and rich orange flavor. We’re so used to getting orange juice 365 days of the year that it may come as news that even Tropicana Pure Premium has a season. But it does. From March until June the Valencia is in its prime in Florida, and even Californians will admit that Florida grows a superior Valencia. The state produces a few other varieties for juicing. The Hamlin, which peaks in late fall, is the most heavily planted. But anyone who has anything to do with the manufacture of commercial orange juice knows that nothing compares to Florida Valencia juice...

For years, more than a dozen at least, I have been covering the statin drug issue. My focus has been to educate people about the serious risks of this drug class and to help them realize that what they are being told is not always correct. Now, again, we have a new report on the fact that statins can raise your risk of getting diabetes. In light of all the serious risks from this drug class perhaps you might wish to consider natural care approaches to the cholesterol conundrum. Health Forensics An increased risk of diabetes among statin users was first seen in 2008, in a randomized controlled trial of the drug Crestor, says Vivian Fonseca, the American Diabetes' Association's president for medicine and science. A 2011 analysis in the  Journal of the American Medical Association  and a 2010 analysis in  The Lancet  also found an increased risk of diabetes among statin users. Complete article Related Article  and good interview Find over 20 articles on this topic ...

The Ten Year Window   If you are experiencing problems because of mesh please consider looking  to our colleague, Linda Kilpatrick, for more information and support,  Bladder Sling Surgery Blog Mesh Medical Device News Desk I have spent many years in the health care industry. The outcome of the observations I have made tells me that  most often it takes about 10 years for facts to catch up with drug, treatments, and device approvals. Approvals in this arena come from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Commonly, because of the faster  fast track system instituted now for a couple of decades, money buys the ticket to the train. When first instituted  Fast Track cost a manufacturer about $330,000; now it is at least double. This doesn’t end up doing too much for safety because, if you follow the news, you too frequently hear about a  drug recall, an ineffective treatment, or medical device failures along with product liability law suits. Surgical mes...

UPDATE: 24 January 2012   If you are experiencing problems because of mesh please consider looking  to our colleague, Linda Kilpatrick, for more information and support,  Bladder Sling Surgery Blog Mesh Medical Device News Desk Dems call for Lap-Band, mesh probes ahead of MDUFMA re-authorization Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are calling for a congressional probe into a pair of high-profile medical device products – Lap-Bands and vaginal mesh – as Congress gears up for hearings and a vote on re-authorizing the Medical Device User Fee & Modernization Act. Democrats in the U.S. House, concerned about a pair of high-profile medical devices, want the Energy & Commerce Committee to open a probe into gastric band and vaginal mesh products.  SOURCE US House of Representatives recently has been visiting my series of articles on surgical mesh.  Find them all using our search window. 5 January 2012 FDA wants new studies on surgical mesh By Anna ...