SchwartzReport: American Health Declining by Every Measure — USA 27th Among 34 Developed Nations

Our passive servitude to the Non-geographical Corporate States and their minions is literally costing us years off our lives. And, not surprisingly, life is even shorter in Red value states as compared to Blue value states. Read this carefully and note, particularly, the observations about inequality and stress. Why Do Americans Live Lives So Short? …

SchwartzReport: US Agriculture — Industrialized Food Combined with Gestapo Tactics Against Small Farms & Interstate Transport — Threatens Public Health

The food trend becomes ever more alarming. For people like Ronlyn and myself, who eat out of our garden, it has little impact, but for millions who don’t have that option, the story is becoming ever bleaker. The Obama Administration’s active complicity in this trend should be a national scandal. Industrialized Food for Profit Threatens …

Berto Jongman: Data visualisation aims to change view of global health

Data visualisation aims to change view of global health By creating a new and innovative way to look at massive amounts of patient data worldwide, one man hopes he can change the way public health crises are managed, as Cynthia Graber reports. Imagine you are a foreign aid worker trying to persuade a senior politician …

Koko: US Uranium Mining on Tribal Lands — Poisoning the Bread Basket, Decades of Human Rights and Health Abuses

Sad. America’s Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World Margaret Flowers and Devin Zeese truthout, 5 June 2013 Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill in New Mexico caved in and released 95 million gallons of …

SchwartzReport: Only in the USA — Breeding Nutrition Out of Food While Religious Zealots Buy & Further Corrupt Health Systems

Yet another aspect of our failing food system and, once again, it comes down to putting profit ahead of wellness.  Jo Robinson is the author of the forthcoming book ‘Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health.” Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food JO ROBINSON – The New York Times Here …

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Software in Health — The Tsunami Rises

List of New Open Source EHR Software Solutions The innovative community of open source software developers have created many new applications in a variety of fields, but a recent Datamation article narrows in on one field in particular — health care. “50 Open Source Replacements for Health Care Software” shares a rundown on all fifty …

SchwartzReport: Nobel-Level Break-Through on Back Pain and 10 Health Benefits of Marijuana

Phi Beta Iota:  Both articles are posted in full below for our viewers that prefer not to click through. Here is an extraordinary breakthrough in medicine. It reminds me of the work done by by Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren of Perth, Western Australia in the late 70s and early 80s that established …