By Jason Erickson Predictive medicine – or “precision health” as it is sometimes known – is a trend in healthcare that is growing exponentially. As I’ve reported previously, Amazon and Google are among the many companies that are heavily investing in this area. Since predictive…
By Ron Paul Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill amendment to repeal the prohibition on the use of federal funds to create a “unique patient identifier.” Unless this prohibition, which I…
By Bretigne Shaffer Imagine taking your two-month-old daughter in for her scheduled vaccines. Imagine watching as she begins to convulse soon after receiving her shots and then continues to experience seizures over the next few days. You might want to make sure she never receives…
By Laraine C. Abbey-Katzev, RN (emeritus), MS, CNS Hospital patients dying of organ failure from serious infections are walking out of the jaws of death time after time thanks to courageous individuals who refused to accept the status quo failing treatments. Instead, thinking outside the…
By Brenton Smith For most politicians, the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) is simply wedge politics. Democrats see the program as a lasting legacy to their party and are unwilling to admit there is a problem with ACA. Republicans, on the other hand, tend to see…
By Michael Snyder I know that the headline sounds outrageous, but it is actually true. According to a brand new report that was just released, Americans had to borrow 88 billion dollars to cover their medical bills last year. That is a truly astounding number,…
By John Vibes Hospitals across the country are hiring more people than ever to cuddle newborn babies. Sadly, this spike in demand has been attributed to the growing opiate crisis, because more mothers than ever are going into labor while addicted to opiates. It is…
By Bradley J. Vargo The difference between obstructing and destroying freedom can be easily concealed. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends everyone six months of age and older get a yearly flu shot. That’s a lot of shots. Apparently, all we really need is air,…
By Mac Slavo A major antitrust lawsuit against some large drug companies accuses Big Pharma of working together to raise the cost of generic drugs. These drugs have had their prices increased by 1,000 % or more. The drugs in question were prescribed to treat…
By Natural Blaze ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Pew Research Center last week released a new public opinion report on “patient matching,” a term which is simply a less-offensive moniker for “national patient ID,” says Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF). Pew led off the study with…
By Catherine J. Frompovich The healthcare – or shall I call it “sickness care” – industries in the United States and, perhaps globally, apparently operate under several misleading practices of being there to help consumers get well. Although that sounds altruistic, nothing probably is further…
By Samantha King Health data management, a hot topic in France, is shedding light on how far industrial lobbyists and special interest groups have managed to bypass French lawmakers, in way over their heads regarding the legal protections around patient data. Put simply, lobbies are…
By Rosanne Lindsay Can people live in a free society without informed consent? Most people would say no. Informed consent infers that at every fork in the road you have a choice. Most Americans want choice, right? Wrong. In 2010, Obamacare forced American citizens to…
By Heather Callaghan When you want to find answers look for a pattern – always look for a pattern. For instance, the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule is a theory that 80 percent of the output from a given situation or system is determined…
By Catherine J. Frompovich “More women in the U.S. die from complications related to pregnancy than in any other developed country. To address this alarming fact, the Preeclampsia Foundation has launched a grassroots campaign to secure support for bipartisan legislation titled the Preventing Maternal Deaths…
By Matt Agorist A 23-month-old baby boy has died after he was held hostage by the British government against the wishes of his parents who may have been able to save his life. The denial of medical care to baby Alfie—which was being offered to him for…
National Health Service (NHS) is under way to propagate value-based Healthcare system in the UK. It has been more than a year since NHS boarded the wagon. Funded by taxes, NHS is facing heavy financial crunches but is standing strong on fulfilling the needs of…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The medical experiment is called Paramedic2 and involves heart attack sufferers who may or may not be given a placebo instead of an adrenaline drug frequently administered during heart attacks. An estimated 24,000,000 million people are unwittingly enrolled in a medical trial –…
By Michael Maharrey Thursday, the Florida House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would help facilitate healthcare freedom outside of government regulatory schemes. Rep. Daniel Burgess (R-Zephyrhills) prefiled House Bill 37 (HB37) on Aug. 23. The legislation specifies that direct primary care agreements (sometimes called medical retainer agreements) do…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Over the years of having been a healthcare professional/practitioner (currently retired); a consumer health researcher since the late 1970s whose ‘bailiwick’ is investigating what could be making humans sick, especially toxic chemicals and vaccines, I came to the realization that patients…
