December 17th, 2009 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News, Research
Tags: Bionic Fingers, Fingers, Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, ProDigits, Prosthesis, Touch Bionics
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Touch Bionics, a company out of Livingston, UK and Hilliard, Ohio known for its i-LIMB device, is making available a new finger prosthesis system. ProDigits, a customizable platform that can be adapted to the needs of individual patients, provides electronically powered artificial fingers that can grasp and manipulate objects. The new hand can also be used for more advanced tasks such as typing on a keyboard. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
December 17th, 2009 by Harriet Hall, M.D. in Better Health Network, News, Quackery Exposed, Research
Tags: Chiropractic, Chiropractic and Osteopathy, Chiropractic Theory, Evidence Based Medicine, False, Journal, Pseudoscience, Science, Subluxation
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An article written by 4 chiropractors and published on December 2, 2009 in the journal Chiropractic and Osteopathy may have sounded the death knell for chiropractic.
The chiropractic subluxation is the essential basis of chiropractic theory. A true subluxation is a partial dislocation: chiropractors originally believed bones were actually out of place. When x-rays proved this was not true, they were forced to re-define the chiropractic subluxation as “a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health.” Yet most chiropractors are still telling patients their spine is out of alignment and they are going to fix it. Early chiropractors believed that 100% of disease was caused by subluxation. Today most chiropractors still claim that subluxations cause interference with the nervous system, leading to suboptimal health and causing disease. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
December 14th, 2009 by David Kroll, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion
Tags: Contractors, Free Agent Nation, Healthcare reform, National Workforce, Self-Employed, Temporary Employees, USA Today
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An article by Paul Davidson in this morning’s USA Today reminded me of another reason why we need health care reform in the United States, or at least a move away from employment-linked health coverage: temporary employees may soon comprise 25% of the national workforce.
An encouraging jobs report Friday underscored the growing prominence of temporary workers who some experts predict could constitute up to a quarter of the workforce in a few years.
A big reason employers shed a far-less-than-expected 11,000 jobs last month is that temporary staffing agencies found slots for 52,000 additional workers, the most since 2004, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.
Temp workers don’t draw full health benefits from most employers and must therefore seek high-cost personal policies or pray that their spouse has family health coverage. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Terra Sigillata*
December 13th, 2009 by GruntDoc in Better Health Network, News
Tags: Death, Drug Seeker, Kentucky, Killed, Murder, Narcotics, Pain Management, Physician
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Horrible.
Perry doctor killed by patient
SUSPECT HAD BEEN REFUSED PAIN PILLS EARLIER IN DAY
By Dori Hjalmarson, Bill Estep and Karla Ward – dhjalmarson@herald-leader.com
CORNETTSVILLE — A man seeking prescription painkillers shot and killed a doctor at a Perry County medical clinic Tuesday morning, according to state police. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc*
December 13th, 2009 by Nancy Brown, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, News
Tags: ABC, Domestic Violence, Fox, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychology, Television, TV, Violence Against Women
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I guess the theme this week is “when things go wrong.” It seems like just when I think we are getting a grip on public health issues like smoking and violence against women, something appears to shake up my naive belief that we are making progress.
Last month the Parents Television Council (PTC) reported that incidents of violence against women on mainstream U.S. TV has increased by 1.2 times in the past five years with the depiction of teen girls as victims being four times as high as it was five years ago. This particular type of violence seems to be increasing at a higher rate than just regular violence, which makes it worse.
Singled out as the worst offender was Fox which the PTC said allows violence against women to be trivialized through punch lines in comedies like “Family Guy” and “American Dad.” Faring the best was ABC (that is, until the AMA Award show last week) which apparently was the only network not showing a dramatic increase in the number of stories that included beating, violent threats, shooting, rape, stabbing and torture. Read more »
This post, Television Violence Against Women On The Upswing, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Nancy Brown, Ph.D..
