A recent Canadian study showed that those who received a season flu vaccine were twice as likely to contract the swine flu. The WHO (World Health Organization) attributed the possible reason for the Canadian results as due to some statistical flaws or selection biases, yet no one on the 4 1/2-hour teleconference was able to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘health’
October 27, 2009
Menopause
Image by betsyjean79 via Flickr
I’ve heard that women going through menopause experience changes in their hormone levels that cause mood swings. Since I’m a recent inductee to this club I can say from my own personal experience that this is rubbish. It isn’t the hormone levels that cause us to be crabby, we’re just pissed [...]
October 23, 2009
Define Frivolous?
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Ten years ago I developed a strange cough and thought I had pneumonia. After doing a weeks worth of laundry and finding it increasing difficult to breath I went across the street to the hospital emergency room and I waited my turn to be seen. After explaining my difficulty breathing I [...]
October 20, 2009
Adverse Reaction to Swine Flu Shot?
Vaccine injury has been so prevalent that U.S Dept of Health and Human Services established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which as of October 1, 1988, also includes the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
According to statistics some 4,000 people fell ill after taking the swine flu vaccine in 1976; 500 contracted a [...]
September 9, 2009
Message Mr. Cleaver…
I woke up yesterday, ran my fingers through my hair and thanked God for effective drugs, I was beginning to fear that Father Time had finally caught up with me…like the ticking clock in Peter Pan, and I’d be stuck with permanent puffy bags, dark circles and cross hash wrinkles, for good. Whatever infected me [...]
August 18, 2009
The Best Healthcare Debate Tweet
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“I don’t care where you fall on the healthcare debate, yelling at Arlen Specter looks like fun.”
-Badbanana via Twitter
June 2, 2009
Body Image
Last weekend I spent Saturday and Sunday bouncing from party to party until I returned home at about 8 P.M. Sunday night. One party was a wedding, the other a birthday and the other party was a graduation. What was unusual was that at all parties I saw people I hadn’t seen in over a [...]
May 29, 2009
Wisecracks
I went shopping yesterday and decided it was too early for me to have taken on such an activity. I got half way through shopping and everything felt surreal, fuzzy and I felt bit feverish.
Throughout the day I kept attempting tasks unsuccessfully then I slept about 16 hours, lost about 3 lbs over 3 days [...]
