Archive for May, 2007


US Healthcare In the Toilet

According to a major opponent of the health care system in the US, and as luck would have it, a doctor, has said that the US health care system is an absolute mess, and made no bones about his opinion recently.  Hi name is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, and he expressed his opinions on how poor [...]

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Smoking Ban Passes Now in Minnesota

Minnesota has now become the 20th state to adopt the ban on smoking in public places such as restaurants and clubs (non privately owned I presume, like it is here in Ohio).  This is just the latest state in the US to follow an increasing trend in anti smoking campaigning, that some feel will hurt [...]

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OxyContin Makers Admit Painkiller’s Addictive Qualities

OcxContin, perhaps one of the most addictive pain relief medications on the market ever, has been accused of misleading the public about the product’s potentially highly addictive properties.  A federal prosecutor has said that the makers of the potent painkiller admitted to having misled the public about the addiction risk of the medicine after being [...]

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Lemon Balm as an Anti Anxiety Agent

When I was in Northern California, the land of the herbal remedies, herbalists, naturopaths and clean living, visiting my sister, I happened across an herbal shop.  I wanted to find something in the shop, which had a lot of raw herbs that you could buy in bulk, which could help ease the anxiety I had been [...]

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Swedish Alternative “Snus” Smokers Have Less Cancer

I had never heard of “Snus” before I read this article about how smokers who smoke a smokeless tobacco in powder form have a statistically intriguing lower rate of lung cancer, which is one of the biggest risks you run as a tobacco smoker.  Snus originates in Sweden, and is actually not legal here in [...]

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