Staph infections rampant

As many as 1.2 million hospital patients are infected with dangerous, drug-resistant staph infections each year, almost 10 times more than previous estimates, based on findings from a major new study.
And 48,000 to 119,000 hospital patients a year may be dying from methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, far more than previously thought, the study suggests.
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Anti-alternative “Quackbusters” Have Giant Court Losses on Two Continents: Holland, Pennsylvania & California Courts Rule Against Them

PRESS RELEASE:
Recent rulings in Amsterdam, Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of California are heavy blows to the Quackwatch anti-chiropractic and anti-alternative medicine organizations.
After years of being labeled a”quack,” defamed and ridiculed professionally, ” Dr. Maria Sickesz won a great victory in Amsterdam, Holland early June 2007.
The Netherlands Appeals Court ordered the “Vereniging tegen [...]

Skeptics Left Doubting Their Own Skepticism

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) June 20, 2007 — On June 14th ,2007 at Simon Fraser University, B.C. Skeptics Colloquium sponsored a lecture by Arthur Grollman, M.D., Professor of Pharmacological Sciences at the University of New York Stony Brook. Barry Beyerstein, PhD, a professor of Psychology at S.F.U. and head of the B.C. Skeptics Society, hosted the [...]

Chiropractors Claim Court Victory Against Infamous ‘Quackbuster’

Chiropractors Claim Court Victory Against Infamous ‘Quackbuster’
http://digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/06/14/DCTH129/chiropractors-claim-court-victory-against-infamous-quackbuster.html
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., June 14 PRNewswire-USNewswire — In a strongly worded opinion, the Appeals Court for the State of Pennsylvania ruled against Stephen Barrett, a long-time critic of chiropractic and alternative health care. In an action that chiropractors see as a major setback for their nemesis, the [...]

Challenging Quackwatch’s Position on Lyme Disease

http://www.redflagsdaily.com/my_opinion/2005_jun23.html

Excerpt:

IN MY OPINION
Challenging Quackwatch’s Position on Lyme Disease

By Marjorie Tietjen
Director For Lyme Concerns
Common Cause Medical Research Foundation

The honest unvarnished truth concerning Lyme Disease, it’s
co-infections and chronic illness will be exposed. Deception and fraud
eventually bring about their own demise. This is simply a natural law
of the universe. In the meantime, however, we need to be [...]

Quackwatch Exposed

(Barrett’s publicists have been working long and hard and diligently to keep
this valid information off the internet)

http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html

Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases
At trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete, Barrett conceded that
he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the
certification exam.

This was a major revelation since Barrett had [...]

Exercise is Good for Good Cholesterol

Forty minutes of aerobic exercise done three times a week produces a small but real increase in high density lipoprotein (HDL), otherwise known as “good cholesterol,” according to a study published in the May 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Increased HDL is good, since it aids in the removal of an artery-clogging [...]

Investigation under way after baby dies

The neonatal intensive care unit that handles some of the sickest, most fragile babies in Toronto remains closed today after a baby died of serratia — a bacteria that normally doesn’t kill adults or healthy children but can be deadly if contracted by premature infants.
Mount Sinai Hospital officials said the two-week old baby, who weighed [...]