Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: 'None of it is true' . . . even in the former prison colony know as Australia. Wanker. She is cute though! No, not the criminal wanker, the chesty brunette behind her!
"Belle Gibson, the disgraced Australian “wellness blogger” who faked terminal cancer and claimed she was cured using natural remedies, faces legal action and penalties of more than £500,000 for profiting from her elaborate global scam. The state of Victoria’s consumer watchdog launched action in Australia’s federal court against the 24-year-old over her claim that she overcame brain cancer without resorting to conventional medicine – a claim she used to promote The Whole Pantry, her internationally successful phone app and cookbook." She was telling an Al Gore level porky. "Facing pressure, she admitted in an interview with the Australian Women's Weekly magazine last year that she did not have cancer and that she fabricated the medical diagnosis which, she had claimed, gave her only months to live. “None of it’s true,” she said." And like Little Al, she did it for the money. Dead Pool! How much prison time will she receive, how big a fine?
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Scientists stop blisters…with a 19th century remedy you’ll find in the chemist
. . . a sticky wicket. A little tape, and a few less blisters. Cool! Counterintuitively, the best way to avoid breast cancer is to not use mammography screening . . .5/5/2016 Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence — NEJM
. . . this also reduces the dangers of over-diagnosis. More after the break! FBI arrests man who poured mouse poison on Whole Foods' buffets
. . . ensures he will be "date" raped for decades. "The man, whose name has not been released, sprayed a liquid mixture of hand cleaner, water, and Tomcat mouse poison onto produce and prepared-food bars at Whole Foods and two other area grocery stores, Meijer and Plum Market, according to the FBI. "The suspect stated that he sprayed produce in these stores within the last two weeks," the FBI said in a statement. Authorities noted that the suspect has visited several other grocery stores in the past couple of months — including including Walmart, Target, and Kroger stores — and they are trying to determine whether the produce at those stores was contaminated." Here is the store list: Medical Errors Are Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
We love to watch shows about murderers, serial killers, terrorists, and other scary killers, yet none of these are remotely as dangerous as "The Man." Perhaps your mind wanders to the "other driver?" No, he barely counts. "The Man" is your doctor. Embrace the robot, it won't kill you. Robots Stake Their Claim in the Operating Room
So, what, besides pay, and prestige, is the difference between a surgeon, and an auto mechanic? Right, nothing, and the robots which replace both will likely charge you the same for similar services. Ok, the surgical robot will need additional cleaning, and sterilization, and its procedures will likely take a bit more time, after all screwing down a pipe clamp takes less time then stitching up the small intestine. So, what maybe double the price or perhaps triple for the surgery? The upside? Fewer mistakes, faster, no need for rest, 24 hour service. The downside? No wonderful surgeons bedside manner! All those out of work surgeons trying to wash my car window at every stoplight? A few years after this become common, mobile surgical robotic units will simply be dispatched to accidents and injuries to perform surgery prior to transportation, all for a fraction of the price of the surgery today. Cool! Study: Ejaculate More, Have Less Prostate Cancer Risk
. . . once a day just clean out those pipes! No, I am not kidding, and yes, this is from a reputable source. Who knew not busting a nut could kill you? "A study on ejaculation and prostate cancer risk, which made a big splash at last year's annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA), was published online March 29 in European Urology. The publication provides greater detail on the main finding: that men might be able to lower their risk for prostate cancer by ejaculating frequently. "This large prospective study provides the strongest evidence to date of a beneficial role of ejaculation in prevention of prostate cancer," write the researchers, led by Jennifer Rider, ScD, MPH, a cancer epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health." So, to clarify, come often, not necessarily early, but often. Got it! Wait till I tell Maddogswif! Michelle Obama Lunch Rules Ban Fried Foods, Frosted Flakes in Daycare
. . . which we know would have a positive effect. "New rules stemming from the school lunch law championed by first lady Michelle Obama are banning popular children’s cereals like Frosted Flakes in daycare centers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service issued a final rule Monday that will affect more than 3 million kids in daycare centers across the country. The regulation will only allow daycare centers to serve juice once a day, will ban fried foods, and encourages centers to not add honey to a child’s yogurt. The regulation is a result of the 2010 law aimed at school lunches, a top priority of Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move anti-obesity initiative. The government hopes the new rule will “help children build healthy habits.'" In school's these policies have worked exactly as expected with millions of children throwing out lunch food they deem inedible. But then not eating is probably considered better than eating unproved food, by this cabal of flapdoodles. The last thing we need is more federal regulation of the local. Nurses could safely take half of GPs' appointments, says thinktank
. . . robots should take the other half. "Only one in three people who visit a GP surgery are ill enough to need to see a doctor and many of the remainder could talk to a practice nurse instead, a report claims. Letting nurses deal with more ailments could free up enough GP time to allow them to offer patients appointments lasting up to 20 minutes, it concludes." Robots should treat over the internet, and prescreen patients. Only those needing more care or diagnosis should be required to present at a medical office, and most of those should be seen by a NP or PA. The rest should simply be referred to the specialty they need. This will free up the physicians to join concierge medical practices where worrywarts can, for a substantial monthly retainer, be guaranteed the right to waste a doctors time. The rest of us will benefit from the reduced need to waste our time presenting at the doctors office, while receiving superior care. Big Insurer Flees Obamacare
. . . and if others follow, that could spell disaster. "As the FT notes, UnitedHealth’s decision does not come as a surprise (we wrote about the company’s ACA woes last year), and—unless other big insurers follow suit—it doesn’t herald the imminent collapse of the law. But the fact that even major insurers like UnitedHealth are hemorrhaging cash on the Obamacare exchanges highlights the fact that for all the ACA’s technocratic tinkering, it did not and will not fix the fundamental problem facing the U.S. healthcare system: That it’s too expensive, and that costs are growing too quickly. The architects of the ACA took aim at access, rather than affordability, achieving a coverage expansion mostly by putting more Americans on the Medicaid rolls. They left the underlying issues plaguing the healthcare system in place (and in many cases exacerbated them), so middle class families are still seeing a growing share of their paychecks consumed by rising premiums and deductibles. And they failed to realize that in the long run, affordability is access, and that attacking the factors that inflate the cost of healthcare in the private market should be a higher priority than expanding subsidies. The departure of UnitedHealth from the exchanges is a devastating illustration of Obamacare’s failure to bring down costs, and clear evidence that, no matter what the White House says, the debate over health reform isn’t going away." Perhaps this is nothing, and all the other insurers are doing fine. Then again that seems unlikely. The ACA is faring poorly in its goals, and it seems to be consuming both insurers, and insureds at a disturbingly high rate. If it is to survive it will need to do more to lower insurance premium costs, while at the same time it increases coverage. This is likely an impossible goal for a program run by government, but the likely outcome of a free market program. Perhaps it is time to introduce the ACA to the free market. |
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