Yoda: Wikipedia Generally Wrong on Medical Issues – 9 out of 10 Health Entries in Error

Again, we say. Using Wikipedia To Look Up Your Illness Is A Bad Idea, Scientists Confirm Researching symptoms and health concerns on Wikipedia will lead you to false information most of the time, scientists in the U.S. say. Scientists compared health information from the online encyclopedia with peer-reviewed medical research. They concluded that 90 percent …

Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat

Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat A remarkable article appears in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.  (Also available as free PDF here.) The authors, experts in public health, are listed with all their academic credentials: William H. Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, Kathy Barker, PhD, Neil Arya, MD, Jon …

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Turner: What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal? Public Health Emergency Exposes Economic and Existential Crisis

What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal? The Public Health Emergency Exposes an Economic and Existential Crisis Margaret Morganroth Gullette Tikkun, Spring 2014 ver the past decade of devastating recession and feeble recovery, there has been a sharp rise in suicides of men aged fifty and over — almost 50 percent, according to the …

Eagle: Empowering Your Health – Beyond Monsanto, Rockefeller and the American Medical Association

Empowering Your Health: Beyond Monsanto, Rockefeller and the American Medical Association By Kimberly Carter Gamble with Erin Breech When your doctor tells you your prescription is approved by the American Medical Association (AMA), it’s intended to give you confidence. But what it really means is that the drug or procedure is endorsed and funded by …

SchwartzReport: Four Ways Human Health is Destroyed by Unethical Corporations and the Governments they Bribe

Democracy by design is a zero sum game. Elections are revolutions without the guns. Part of the problem faced by social progressives is that all too many of us have a gut rejection of reality when it is negative. In my view you can’t fight a battle if you are unwilling to accurately assess the …

SchwartzReport: Health — and Kindness — Are A) Vital Part of Socio-Economic & Ideo-Cultural Health and B) Destroyed by Legalized Financial Corruption

Larry Dossey, one of the founders of the alternative and complementary medicine movement — and an SR reader, I am happy to say — has been studying the consequences of policy decisions that do not make national wellness a priority for four decades. Here is his excellent essay on what he calls “The Health Consequences …

Sepp Hasslberger: new hydrogel uses holograms to warn you about your health

Get your hydrogel, throw in some silver nanoparticles, treat with a laser and you have a hologram. When that interacts with a substance, like insulin it will naturally adjust the color of the hologram giving a diagnosis. A new hydrogel uses holograms to warn you about your health This new hydrogel concept uses a simple …