Health/Sick Care
A protestor shouted at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about vaccine caused injuries and deaths as he walked into a press conference in Hamilton.
“Trudeau, are you going to apologize to Canadians?” said the protestor in a Monday video.
“Are you going to apologize to Canadians for saying the vaccine was safe and effective?”
Trudeau walked past the protestor, waving at her. He looked forward and continued to walk on.
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Read MoreCanadian public health officials are reeling following the publication of an investigation in the BMJ criticising Canada’s response to the Covid pandemic. While the report cites some positives, they are eclipsed by the criticisms. Positives include “the involvement of women in decision making”. Negatives include the fact that an “overall impression of adequacy masks important inequalities by region, setting and demography”. Damning indeed. The report cites the lack of “an independent, federal inquiry” which has allowed “others to step into the frame”. Is this a critique of Canada’s Public Health response or a thinly-veiled attack on what the authors refer to as “the so-called National Citizens’ Inquiry?”
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Read MoreConfirmed in yet another study in the peer-reviewed literature. Not that it will change anyone’s minds in today’s world. But I thought I’d point it out anyway.
STEVE KIRSCH
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Read MoreThe personal information of 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries were accessed in a sweeping data breach that affected what could be hundreds of organizations, including the government contractor, Maximus Federal Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a press release Friday that it is notifying people affected by the data breach, which could have affected information including beneficiaries, names, Social Security numbers, medical histories, diagnoses and other personal details.
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Read MoreTelecom companies promote 5G, the “next generation wireless network technology,” as being faster and able to handle more connected devices than the 4G LTE network. And they assure consumers the result will be increased access for underserved communities that lack reliable internet connectivity.
But critics — including Theodora Scarato, executive director of the nonprofit research and education group Environmental Health Trust — said the 5G rollout is more about corporate greed than it is about helping people access fast and reliable internet.
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Read MoreDeveloped nations requiring the most neonatal vaccine doses tend to have the worst childhood mortality rates, according to a peer-reviewed study published July 20 in Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
“Health authorities emphasize that vaccines save lives,” lead author Neil Miller told The Defender. “Yet our data suggests that when developed nations require two versus zero neonatal vaccine doses, or many versus fewer vaccines during infancy, there may be unintended consequences that increase all-cause mortality.”
Miller, director of the Institute of Medical and Scientific Inquiry in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been researching this topic since the early 2000s. In a 2011 paper with the same co-author — Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., an independent computer scientist — they showed that developed countries requiring the most vaccine doses for infants had the least favorable infant mortality rates.
In 2021, they replicated those results using updated data, and earlier this year, they responded to critics of their findings.
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Read MoreThe Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is pleased with the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta’s decision to invalidate the public health orders of Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH), in Ingram v. Alberta. The court struck down these lockdown measures because they were effectively issued by Cabinet rather than by the CMOH. Dr. Hinshaw testified at trial that politicians were the final decision-making authority, and that she merely provided advice and recommendations.
With these health orders having been invalidated, it is expected that Crown prosecutors
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Read MoreThe Department of Energy (DOE) rules around lightbulbs have long been a lightning rod of sorts in American politics. Former president Barack Obama tried to phase out inefficient bulbs, but his successor Donald Trump scrapped the policy. The Biden Administration brought the plan back on track and, starting today (Aug. 1), the sale of energy inefficient lightbulbs will be banned in the US.
A new minimum standard for lightbulbs has been set at 45 lumens—or brightness—per watt. Retailers can’t sell bulbs that don’t meet the criteria, though households can continue using existing bulbs.
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Read MoreIn late 2021, Gail Seiler was enjoying life with her husband, adult children and her grandchildren. She was happily employed as a technology manager near Dallas after spending several years living in Europe.
All this changed in December 2021, however, when Seiler said her “nightmare began.” On Dec. 3, 2021, two days after testing positive for COVID-19, low oxygen levels led her to go to her local hospital, Medical City of Plano, Texas, for treatment.
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Read MoreAn estimated 40,700 nursing positions are currently open across the country for reasons that include ‘high patient workloads, lack of resources, mandatory overtime and fear of personal safety.’
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