Health Plans

"If you're going to cover an estimated 48 million uninsured Americans in the world's costliest medical system How do you pay for it?

For starters, renovate, clarify, focus what is on the books. For example, 02.04.08, FY2009 Budget Advances Food and Medical Product Safety, on the Safety of FDA-Regulated Imports, and includes some encouraging, health-promoting statements, such as: "The FY2009 increase will allow the agency to focus on the most important food defense and food safety issues throughout the entire life cycle of foods from production to consumption."

Or check 01.29.09 News Release - "Government of Canada Takes Action to Protect Health and Safety of Canadians." It will prohibit the manufacture, importation, advertisement. For sale of consumer products that pose an unreasonable danger to human health and safety. (Also, refer to "Canadian Food Labeling Initiative".)

How to pay? Adopt Measures to
Improve the Health of Americans -
A stitch in time, saves Nine.

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RESEARCH YELLOW JOURNALISM (RYJ) - Continued

02.16.09 Email Bulletin Updated to 03.02.09
Universities, Medical Facilities, Staff Members Used to Advertise Unproven Research Not Validated by Responsible Government Agencies

CONSUMER LAB. - "Product Review - Resveratrol Supplements (including red wine, Grape and Polygonium Sources)" An excellent, informative report, recommended reading, including the statement: "No one knows the right dose of resveratrol that is beneficial and safe for people."

Nutrition Action Health Letter, March, 2009, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), page 9, "RESVERATROL", effectively describes the unresolved status of the subject - how the Associated Press headline (Nov., 2006) reported, "Big fat doses of red wine extract help obese mice stay happy, healthy and live longer."

The article goes on to report that last August, "...the researchers who published the headline-grabbing 2006 study quietly released the results of a trial in normal-weight, middle-aged mice fed a normal diet plus reservatrol. This time there was no publicity, probably because the mice didn't live any longer than mice given a placebo."

Same infomation source - We were pleased to read that Felipe Sierra, director of the biology program at National Institute on Aging (NIA) has decided to test it in a program that will take several years. The article ends by quoting his bottom line, "Resveratrol is a very interesting molecule, but its role in aging is still up in the air. There's nothing proven in People - Nothing. "

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RESEARCH - YELLOW JOURNALISM (R-YJ)

Year- 1934 : Dr. William Thornton, Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, asked Ted, "What's that tobacco leaf doing on your lab. bench?" Ted replied, "A friend with a tobacco warehouse asked me to check its moisture content." "Young man", said Dr. Thornton, "The Johns Hopkins is a research institution, we do not do commercial work - get rid of that sample."
After that, my respect for the sanctity of basic research was set in STONE.

SORRY ABOUT THE SLIPPAGE, Dr. T.
"The Scientific Life : A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation", Steven Shapin, Oct. 2008 - reviewed by B. H. Smith, London Review of Books, 002.12.09. "The practices of science, it appears, are increasingly industrial in location, corporate in organization and product, and profit-minded in motivation." There is evidence of regret for earlier values, that insisted that the life of the dedicated pedagogic researcher would be the academic life.

.................Excerpts from advertisement in "The Nation, 02.23.09".................
"Breaking Research News : Life is Short...or maybe not.. Top Harvard researcher says it's the Holy Grail of aging research." "The powerful secret of tomorrow's anti-aging pill can be yours today." "A leading pharmaceutical company has already spent $760,000,000 on
purchasing the research and development" "Now there is a way to take resveratrol without the alcohol, calories and high cost" Included, in bold letters, the names of several research institutions: "Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Salk Institute and UC Davis Medical Research Proves That Powerful Red Wine Extract Holds the Secret to Living a Longer, healthier and More Vibrant Life".
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