Medical Health News

[First]  [Previous] |    582     583     584     585     586     587     588     589     590     591    | [Next]  [Last] of 595 page(s)

'Profound Questions About Privacy' Follow Latest Revelations

npr.org

by Mark Memmott

June 7, 2013

Fresh reports about the massive amount of electronic data that the nation's spy agencies are collecting "raise profound questions about privacy" because of what they say about how such information will be collected in the future.

And Glenn Greenwald, the activist/blogger/journalist who has been breaking stories this week in The Guardian about what the National Security Agency, FBI and other agencies are doing, said on Morning Edition that he believes the National Security Agency hopes to create a "worldwide surveillance net that allows it to monitor what all human beings are doing." Meanwhile, as we reported Thursday night, the Obama administration's director of national intelligence says the intelligence agencies work "within the constraints of the law to collect, analyze and understand information related to potential threats to our national security." In a statement, James Clapper added that "the intelligence community is committed to respecting the civil liberties and privacy of all American citizens."

'Poverty Figures May Be Wrong, Journalists May Have Misunderstood Census Data'

Big Journalism

by Liberty Chick

December 16, 2011

Recently, the U.S Census Bureau released a report that creates a new designation of "low income" in order to "better reflect the distribution of poverty in the US."

The Associated Press ran with a headline, "Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income," and scores of other media outlets followed suit with equally dire ledes. In NJ, one outlet reported, "Census: Nearly half of Americans live in poverty," while Russia Today reported that "Half of America is officially poor." But analysts at the U.S. Census Bureau district office in Los Angeles are reporting today that perhaps journalists misunderstood. and over 300 online news reports simply got the story wrong.

'Polio-like' Cluster in California Has Eerie Echoes

ageofautism.com

by Dan Olmsted

February 25, 2014

Here's something worth knowing about the cluster of "polio-like illnesses" identified by doctors in the San Francisco area: Some of the first outbreaks of actual poliomyletis in the United States more than a century ago happened in the same area.

s history repeating itself? Are more cases on the way, and not just in California? It's a question worth asking, and far more important to public health than headline-grabbing measles and whooping cough outbreaks. But don't hold your breath, because the real answer may say more about the nature of modern illness than most mainstream medical "experts" would care to consider.

'Police Said I Wasn't Raped Because He Didn't Orgasm'

secretsofthefed.com

July 24, 2013

The University of Southern California is facing a federal civil rights investigation after students filed a complaint alleging that the school ignored rapes on campus and even failed to prosecute attackers after they confessed.

One USC student, remaining anonymous, involved in the complaint stated that campus police decided the young woman wasn't raped because her attack did not orgasm. "Because he stopped, it was not rape," she was told, according to the complaint. "Even though his penis penetrated your vagina, because he stopped, it was not a crime." Because her attacker did not orgasm, campus police decided not to refer the case to Los Angeles Police. Another student cited a similar occurrence.

'Pink Slime' Makes Comeback as Beef Prices Spike

online.wsj.com

by Jacob Bunge and Kelsey Gee

May 29, 2014

Finely textured beef, dubbed "pink slime" by critics, is mounting a comeback as retailers seek cheaper trimmings to include in hamburger meat-just in time for Memorial Day barbecues.

Surging U.S. beef prices are helping to revive a meat product that all but disappeared two years ago. Finely textured beef, is mounting a comeback as retailers seek cheaper trimmings to include in hamburger meat and processors find new products to put it in. Sales of the ingredient-processed from beef scraps left after cattle are butchered-collapsed in 2012 after a social-media frenzy...

'Octomom' in one-child China stuns public

CNS News

by Alexa Olesen

December 30, 2011

The incident has highlighted both the use of birth surrogates, a violation of Chinese law, and how wealthy Chinese do as they please, with scant regard for the rules that constrain others. The most common reaction, though, has been simple disbelief.

'ObamaCare Catch-2': Crushing Fines for Religious Entities in Mandate

PJ Media

by Bridget Johnson

July 16, 2012

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) talks to PJM about his new bill to counter provisions that could "tax religiously affiliated schools, hospitals, universities and soup kitchens right out of existence."

Before the House repealed ObamaCare once more last week, another bill was introduced to stop the Department of Health and Human Services from charging religious institutions steep fines for noncompliance with the mandate to provide birth control without an insurance co-payment. Under President Obama's healthcare law, the HHS can levy $100 per employee, per day against institutions that won't comply with the mandate.

'Nightmare bacteria' spread in Southeast

usatoday.com

July 31, 2014

Superbugs known as CRE - called "nightmare bacteria" by federal health officials because they are deadly and virtually untreatable - are skyrocketing in the Southeastern USA, new research shows.

Experts fear a growing national problem, and some say the spread of such superbugs may portend a "post-antibiotic era." Cases of the antibiotic-resistant CRE rose fivefold in community hospitals in the region from 2008 to 2012, researchers at Duke University Medical Center found, and they said those rates are likely underestimates.

'Monsanto Protection Act' might be repealed in Senate

rt.com

May 18, 2013

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States senator is expected to try and repeal that law.

According to the Huffington Post, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) plans to introduce an amendment in Washington that would repeal Section 735 from the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, a provision that has put St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto in the sights of environmentalists around the world.

'Monk' Star: Public Expected Too Much from Obama

CNS News

by Fred Lucas

September 6, 2012

Too much was expected of President Barack Obama by his supporters in 2008, said actor Tony Shalhoub, the star of the USA Network show "Monk."

"I think some people have expressed some disappointment, but I believe he has a lot of support there," Shalhoub told CNSNews.com. "I think people are wanting and willing to give him another four years, and a lot of his policies are long-term plays. And I think a lot of people lost sight of the fact that four years ago, when he was campaigning and when he was elected, his campaign promises and everything that he was talking about, he even said he wasn't going to be able to do it by himself and that it was going to take all of us stepping forward, volunteering, doing our part."

[First]  [Previous] |    582     583     584     585     586     587     588     589     590     591    | [Next]  [Last] of 595 page(s)