The US government

perpetrated 9/11.

Chart comparing healthcare in US, UK, France and Singapore. Image
Tags: health, healthcare, uk, us, france, singapore, aging

Glenn Greenwald looks at the paradox of right-wing protests against big government. News
Tags: economics, recession, healthcare, corporate-malfeasance

What's really happening with these protests is that the genuine rage and not unreasonable economic insecurity of these citizens is being stoked, exploited, distorted and manipulated by movement leaders for entirely different ends.

Medical Bills Cause Most Bankruptcies. News
Tags: healthcare, economics, debt

Nearly two out of three bankruptcies stem from medical bills, and even people with health insurance face financial disaster if they experience a serious illness, a new study shows.
The study data, published online Thursday in The American Journal of Medicine, likely understate the full scope of the problem because the data were collected before the current economic crisis. In 2007, medical problems contributed to 62.1 percent of all bankruptcies. Between 2001 and 2007, the proportion of all bankruptcies attributable to medical problems rose by about 50 percent.

Only in Florida: County doctor forced to resign for pointing out that doughnuts are very unhealthy. News
Tags: florida, healthcare, food

Gene Therapy Creates a New Fovea: Treatment leads to an unexpected improvement in vision for one patient. News
Tags: genetics, gene-therapy, healthcare, vision

Twelve months after receiving an experimental gene therapy for a rare, inherited form of blindness, a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life. The unexpected findings suggest that the brain can adapt to new sensory capacity, even in people who have been blind since birth.

Whole Foods CEO declares his company to be against universal health care. News
Tags: healthcare, food
Entity: wholefoods

Ralph Nader on health care hypocrisy. News
Tags: nader, corporate-malfeasance, healthcare, obama

Former healthcare exec tells all to Bill Moyers. Video
Tags: healthcare, usa, corporate-malfeasance
Entity: cigna

With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.

Cancer: shocking breakthrough. Patients with inoperable prostate disease recover after single dose of drug News
Tags: cancer, prostate, disease, health, healthcare

Two patients with inoperable prostate cancer have made dramatic recoveries after receiving one dose of an experimental drug that is creating excitement among cancer specialists.
The results were so startling that researchers decided to release details of the two cases before the drug trial in which the patients took part was complete. Doctors said their progress had exceeded all expectations. The men were treated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in the US, one of the top medical centres in the world.
Dr Eugene Kwon, the urologist who was in charge of their treatment, compared the results to the first pilot breaking the sound barrier.

Hackers hold ransom 8 million health care records from Virginia. US media censors the story. News
Tags: criminality, internet, virginia, healthcare, privacy

The actual email from the hacker(s) who stole 8 million Virginia medical records. News
Tags: criminality, internet, virginia, healthcare, privacy

Fill 'Er Up With Human Fat News
Tags: energy, transportation, biology, healthcare

San Francisco plans to provide universal healthcare for all city residents. News
Tags: healthcare, california, san-francisco, politics

German doctor accidentally cures AIDS using bone marrow transplant. News
Tags: hiv, biology, health, healthcare

Woman waited in American hospital for 19 hours without being seen, yet the bloodsucking hospital sent her a bill. News
Tags: healthcare, corporate-malfeasance

Copper door handles found to kill superbugs in hospitals. News
Tags: healthcare, health, biology

Real Star Trek Tricorder invented News
Tags: healthcare, biology

HMS (Health Management Science) perpetrated what the public judged to be a wild attack on one of its own engineers. News
Tags: healthcare, programming, corporate-malfeasance
Entity: hms

McKesson found to have allowed fake drugs to reach patients who were harmed by this switcheroo. News
Tags: corporate-malfeasance, healthcare, disease, drugs
Entity: mckesson

McKesson to pay $960 millino in fines for huge criminal securities fraud. News
Tags: corporate-malfeasance, healthcare, criminality, finance
Entity: mckesson

McKesson uses fraud to make $12 billion disappear overnight, pays $960 million in fines. News
Tags: corporate-malfeasance, healthcare, criminality, finance
Entity: mckesson

See also SFGate article.

Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego, CA) was found to be engaging in Medicare fraud, and was fine $6.2 million. News
Tags: healthcare, medicare, california, corporate-malfeasance
Entity: sharp-healthcare

Arthritis drug etanercept restores speech in some Alzheimers patients. News
Tags: health, biology, healthcare

Another unconstitutional police state law: All newborns' DNA will now be taken by the Feds. News
Tags: police-state, healthcare

Signed into law April 24, 2008, the oh-so innocent sounding Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 establishes a national database of newborn DNA. This law establishes collection and warehousing of newborn DNA for scientific research and requires no parental consent or knowledge.

The Bypass Effect…Curing Diabetes. Video
Tags: health, healthcare

Lesley Stahl, CBS news correspondent for 60 Minutes completed a special report on what many are now referring to as The Bypass Effect. As doctors know gastric bypass or bariatric surgery has been performed since the 1950’s. The safety of patients undergoing the procedure was a serious concern for physicians until the development of similar but less invasive procedures such as the laparoscopic band.

Merck wrote fake Vioxx drug studies for doctors to put their names on and publish. News
Tags: corporate-malfeasance, healthcare
Entity: merck

The lead author of Wednesday's article, Dr. Joseph Ross of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said a close look at the Merck documents raised broad questions about the validity of much of the drug industry's published research, because the ghostwriting practice appears to be widespread.

Under McCain's health care plan, even McCain wouldn't be covered. News
Tags: healthcare, cancer

Elizabeth Edwards has cancer. John McCain has had cancer in the past. Last weekend, Mrs. Edwards bluntly pointed out that neither of them would be able to get insurance under Mr. McCain’s health care plan.

More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea. News
Tags: healthcare

The survey suggests that opinions have changed substantially since the last survey in 2002 and as the country debates serious changes to the health care system.

In America, there's a huge gap in life expectancy between rich and poor. Image
Tags: healthcare, usa

Americans pay more taxes than Canadians, and yet Canada offers everyone health care while 50+ million Americans have no health insurance. [graph] Image
Tags: economics, healthcare

Nice explanation of how universal healthcare works in Germany. Reference
Tags: healthcare, germany

Pew says 40 percent of Republicans are in favor of universal healthcare. News
Tags: healthcare

Commonwealth Fund study says that universal healthcare would save $1.5 trillion in 10 years. News
Tags: healthcare

Paramedic shoots, then saves robbery suspect News
Tags: healthcare, health

Man effectively tortured in American jail for refusing to consent to paying for medical care. News
Tags: police-state, healthcare

9/11 First Responder's house to be auctioned to pay medical bills in corporate-controlled America. News
Tags: healthcare, 911truth

If you're poor or sick or you don't have health insurance, leading conservatives think your problems are funny. News
Tags: healthcare

China's Approach to Health Care: Cash Up Front, Lots of Drugs News
Tags: healthcare, china

What it's like not having health insurance in America: Removing spider larvae from inside one's face. Video
Tags: healthcare