Cancer, a Man-Made Disease | Causes and Prevention December 03, 2010 | 336,092 views Share A study of ancient bodies has determined that cancer is a man-made disease, one fueled by the excesses. Tumors turn out to be extremely rare until very recent times, when pollution and poor diet became issues. Researchers analyzed potential references to the disease in classical literature, and also searched for signs in the fossil record and in mummified bodies. But despite examining tissue from hundreds of Egyptian mummies, they confirmed only one case of cancer According to the Daily Mail: "Dismissing the argument that the ancient Egyptians didn't live long enough to develop cancer, the researchers pointed out that other age-related disease such as hardening of the arteries and brittle bones did occur ...
Warning: they want us to pay the private sector to make a profit from NHS Why does the Health Secretary think that the private sector needs a subsidy to be able to enter the market for services now provided by the NHS? Because public provision is a more efficient way to do things, maybe? But then why get rid of it? Why does the Health Secretary think that the private sector needs a subsidy to be able to enter the market for services now provided by the NHS? Because public provision is a more efficient way to do things, maybe? The Department of Health has just published its 165-page “ Health and Social Care Bill 2011 Impact Assessments ”. What a convenient conclusion for the private sector. The largest is that NHS staff have generous, subsidised pensions. The Daily Telegraph recently highlighted the case of David Metter, chief executive of Innisfree, the PFI company which owns or part-owns 28 hospitals as well as 269 schools. The second major distortion relates to cost of capital. The third distortion is that private companies have to pay corporation tax.
Ornella Barra Official Site Bailiffs and debt collectors : Directgov - Money, tax and benefits A bailiff may visit your home if you don’t pay your debts - eg a Council Tax bill, parking fine, court fine, county court or family court judgment. This will happen if you ignore letters saying that bailiffs will be used. Bailiffs must normally give you at least 7 days’ notice of their first visit. You can stop bailiffs from visiting by paying the money you owe. Talk to the person or business you owe money to as soon as possible to get advice on how to pay your debt. Bailiffs are also known as ‘enforcement agents’. Dealing with bailiffs In most cases, you don’t have to open your front door to a bailiff or let them in. Bailiffs are not usually allowed to force their way into your home - eg by pushing past you, or putting their foot in the door. However, if you don’t let them in or agree to pay them: they could take things from outside your home - eg your car you could end up owing even more money If you do let them in, but don’t pay them, they may take some of your belongings. Bailiffs can’t:
Library clears its shelves in protest at closure threat Stony Stratford library is one of two branches being considered for closure by Milton Keynes council. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian The library at Stony Stratford, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, looks like the aftermath of a crime, its shell-shocked staff presiding over an expanse of emptied shelves. Only a few days ago they held 16,000 volumes. Now, after a campaign on Facebook, there are none. The empty shelves, as the library users want to demonstrate, represent the gaping void in their community if Milton Keynes council gets its way. Stony Stratford council got wind in December and wrote to all 6,000 residents – not entirely disinterestedly, as the council meets in the library, like many other groups in the town. – they should be finding ways to expand its services and bring even more people in."
LHO : Health Inequalities Tool Page last updated: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:19:15 GMT The Health Inequalities Intervention Tool for All Areas (2008) This tool is part of the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit To access the Toolkit to find the latest Life Expectancy Tool for Spearhead areas (2010) and the new Infant Mortality Tool, please click here Health Inequalities Intervention Tool for All Areas (2008) Please note that an error has been discovered in the Model Interventions section of the tool. This tool provides information on the following, based on data for 2001-05: The life expectancy in each English local authority, and in the most deprived quintile of each local authority The gap in life expectancy between the most deprived quintile and the local authority as a whole for all areas, and between the local authority and England for Spearhead areas An analysis of the contribution of causes of death to the gap between the most deprived quintile of the local authority and a variety of comparators
The War on Cancer: a Progress Report for Skeptics March 30, 2011 | 416,050 views Disponible en Español Share In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. "These summary statistics show that the war on cancer has not gone well," says the article's author, Reynold Spector. Doctors 'want halt to NHS plans but reject opposition' 15 March 2011Last updated at 12:22 By Nick Triggle and Jane Hughes BBC News Doctors are debating the changes to the NHS in England Doctors have called on the government to put a halt to its overhaul of the NHS in England, but have stopped short of opposing the plans outright. Instead, an emergency meeting of the British Medical Association urged ministers to withdraw the health bill so the plans could be looked at again. The plans pave the way for increased competition in the NHS - something the union said was "dangerous and risky". But the government said the BMA should be trying to be more constructive. The emergency meeting - the first of its kind for nearly 20 years - was called by the BMA leadership after concerns from its grassroots membership about the plans. The motion voted in favour of by delegates says withdrawing the health bill, which is currently going through parliament, was needed so that the controversial and more radical elements of the legislation can be considered again.
United Kingdom Homecare Association Are You Still Drinking Soda? June 08, 2011 | 298,934 views Share Tom Philpott got much more of a reaction to his February 10, 2011, aspartame article than he expected. He reports, "I guess in the back of my mind, I was thinking, people still drink that stuff?" Well, they do—by the bucketful. Overall, U.S. soda consumption is declining slowly, but Americans still drink more soda than anyone else on the planet, by a wide margin. Adam Ozimek of the Modeled Behavior blog quickly mounted a vigorous defense of aspartame, the artificial sweetener of choice for the soda industry, claiming, "the unnecessary stress caused by worrying about the aspartame in your diet soda is far more dangerous for you than the aspartame in your soda." Ozimek also compared warnings about aspartame's danger to 9/11 conspiracy theories, claiming the FDA "adequately followed its food additive approval process in approving aspartame."
UK cuts 'to push unemployment close to 3m' 10 June 2010Last updated at 14:22 Deficit cuts will hit those already suffering most, the CIPD says Government spending cuts will push UK unemployment up from its current 2.5m to almost 3m, a report has warned. Deficit reduction would also stall recovery in the jobs market, employment group the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said. There was little prospect of real wage growth until at least 2015, and public sector workers faced pay cuts, it said. The chancellor is expected to lay out sweeping cuts to try to trim the £156bn deficit in his budget on 22 June. 'Radical re-engineering' And the business group the CBI has called for £4 in spending cuts for every £1 in tax hikes. It warned that the public finances should be repaired without damaging growth prospects, calling for a shake-up of public services provision to save money through job cuts and sharing back office functions. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote What do we cut - and who would it hit? 'Hardship'
The True Price Of Gas: What It Should Really Cost To Fill Up If you've filled up a car recently, you surely think that the price of gas is too high. Of course, you've seen the data--gas is much more expensive in other parts of the world than in America, but that doesn't change how it effects your wallet at the gas station. But take away arguments about which countries subsidize or tax gas the most and focus on the costs of simply using gasoline that aren't included in the price, and you start to realize you are getting a good deal, even at $4 a gallon. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) recently put out a video of their efforts to track the costs of all the externalities of a gallon of gas; the unseen costs that we pay because of each gallon we use. First, consider all the costs of drilling, extracting, and transporting oil. From there, you have to examine the effects of all those emissions. Then, of course, there are environmental disasters like oil spills. Hat tip: Climate Progress