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Washington — While the national health spending growth rate increased slightly in 2006, the percentage rise in expenditures on physician services slowed markedly, due largely to a small Medicare pay increase and its private-sector fallout, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
At the same time, the start of Medicare Part D had a major impact in the prescription drug sector.
Overall national health spending reached $2.1 trillion, up 6.7% from $1.97 trillion in 2005, states the CMS report, published in the January/February Health Affairs. The 2005 growth rate was 6.5%.
This moderate increase was possible because of a broad-based slowdown in spending growth in many categories, including physicians and clinical services. These expenditures increased by 5.9% in 2006, down from 7.4% in 2005, found the report, “National Health Spending in 2006: A Year of Change for Prescription Drugs.” For the first time since 1999, physician spending increased more slowly than the gross domestic product.
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by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life
Counterfeit products are not just limited to CD’s, clothes and other common consumables. They are also widespread amongst food and drink.
Is it not easy to determine what may be counterfeit as the inferior quality may not become apparent until some time later, for example in the case of ‘designer’ clothing. (I don’t have that problem as I never buy designer clothing anyway.)
On the other hand if you are a whisky drinker the chances are you would pick up a counterfeit product on the first sip.
Of more concern is the amount of counterfeit baby formulas on the market. Some of these formulas are bad enough without having the added risk of a possible cheap imitation which may have contaminated ingredients.
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Here are some facts (website reference at bottom):
* In the sleep-deprived, says Harris Lieberman, PhD, a leading caffeine researcher, caffeine improves scores on a range of cognitive tasks, such as decision making, memory, learning, and attention.
* A tall latte may keep you out of the dentist’s chair. In lab tests, researchers in Italy recently found that coffee’s antibacterials slow the growth of Streptococcus mutans, the culprit in tooth decay. Coffee also contains compounds that keep bacteria from sticking to tooth enamel.
* It’s no secret that coffee makes your bladder more active. While that can be bothersome, it can also help reduce the risk of Kidney stones, according to the Nurses Health Study. Women who drank the most coffee had the lowest risks. Caffeine increases the flow of more diluted urine, which lowers the chance of a Kidney stone forming. Prefer decaf? No problem: It was shown to have similar effects. [Drink water processed decaf]
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by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life
The UK Food Standards Agency warns that Salmonella has been found in some batches of shark cartilage capsules originating from the US.
The capsules which are popular for joint health have been recalled from the US distribution firm after they said is discovered the ‘issue’ during routine testing of the product.
Wow…salmonella is bad stuff! This is shocking and there is NO excuse for it. ALL batches of Supplements should be tested for basic microbiological contamination of which salmonella is a standard test, and the tests should be done PRIOR to the product leaving the factory.
This should be standard procedure for ALL manufacturers. It is something that we do automatically for all batches of all products and always have done.
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by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life
This time it is folic acid. In a new study named “Folic Acid for the Prevention of Colorectal Adenomas,” which was published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association it was found that high doses of folic acid did little to reduce precancerous colon polyps in those prone to them and may actually increase the risk of developing such growths.
Once again, like so many other studies the name of this study is misleading due to the inclusion of one word. ‘Prevention’. The participants in the study already had the condition that folic acid was supposed to prevent! How can you have a study about prevention when you are using people who are not representative of the general population?
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by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life
I guess that it is unlikely that many of the officials in the US FDA will be queuing up to apply to fill the vacancy!
Last week a Chinese court sentenced to death the former head of the Chinese FDA for accepting bribes and allowing the approval of faulty medicines including an antibiotic that was responsible for killing six people. Imagine, if the same form of justice was applied to those officials in the US FDA and other western FDA’s who have over the last 20 years approved drugs that subsequently were found to have serious side effects in many cases and were directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent patients.
It would thin out the management somewhat wouldn’t it?
Pretty tough justice by the Chinese…but, a pretty good deterrent as well. For the full article about this have a look at the article in the Washington Post - http://www.washingt...l?hpid=moreheadlines
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DALLAS (Reuters) - A diet with liberal servings of fish, nuts and seeds rich in nutrients called Omega-3 Fatty Acids can help lower a person’s blood pressure, according to a study released on Monday.
“A large percentage of people between ages 20 and 60 have a rise in blood pressure, and by middle age many have High Blood Pressure,” said Dr. Jeremiah Stamler, professor emeritus of preventive medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, who worked on the study.
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Agricultural workers exposed to high levels of pesticides have a raised risk of brain tumours, research suggests.
The French study also indicated a possible higher risk among people who used pesticides on houseplants.
All agricultural workers exposed to pesticides had a slightly elevated brain tumour risk, it suggested.
But the Occupational and Environmental Medicine study found the risk was more than doubled for those exposed to the highest levels.
The risk of a type of central nervous system tumour known as a glioma was particularly heightened among this group - more than three times the risk in the general population.
Gliomas are more common in men than women, and the researchers speculate that part of the reason might be that men are more often exposed to pesticides.
However, the overall risk of developing a brain tumour remained very low.
UK experts said the findings were inconclusive.
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By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent - http://www.independent.co.uk/
A new health scare erupted over soft drinks amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.
The problem - more usually associated with aging and alcohol abuse - can eventually lead to Cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s.
The findings could have serious consequences for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who consume fizzy drinks. They will also intensify the controversy about food additives, which have been linked to hyperactivity in children.
Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries, but is used in large quantities to prevent mould in soft drinks such as Sprite, Oasis and Dr Pepper. It is also added to pickles and sauces.
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HONG KONG — Chinese doctors have long experimented with combinations of herbs to cure disease. If a plant extract helped to fight an infection, why bother trying to figure out which molecule did the trick? It worked, and that’s what counted.
By contrast, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, one of the world’s most stringent drug watchdogs, for decades has looked askance at most herbal medicines. The focus in Western pharmacology is finding the single molecule that cures a disease. Pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Merck spend billions of dollars combing through huge libraries of compounds to find the elusive blockbuster therapy.
The two approaches boil down to a simple question: Is it better to attack disease, as the Western world does, with a silver bullet — the one substance whose potency has been pinpointed? Or should treatments be administered, as the Chinese method dictates, by aiming a group of agents at the problem — the shotgun approach?
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