Nobody Cares about Your Health

[Rose Karuna]

My friend re-posted this on Facebook from "Kindness of the soul" Embarrassing for the US for sure.

RFKjr lecturing a health minister in Germany?
Gotta love the response.

RFK Jr: “Reports coming out of Germany show a government sidelining patient autonomy and limiting people's abilities to act on their own convictions when they face medical decisions. That is why I sent a letter to Germany's Federal Minister of Health, Nina Warken. In my letter, I made it clear that Germany has the opportunity and the responsibility to correct this trajectory, to restore medical autonomy, to end politically motivated prosecutions, and to uphold the rights that anchor every democratic nation.”

German historian Rob Schafer responded: “You seem to be laboring under the delusion that Germany is a colony for your conspiracy theories. Let me be blunt: Your brand of 'freedom'—the freedom to die of preventable 19th-century diseases—is an export we have no interest in buying. We established the world's first universal social healthcare system under Bismarck in 1883. You still do not have anything comparable.”

We are the nation of Koch and Virchow and have spent 140 years using state power to defeat disease through science AND solidarity. You, meanwhile, preside over a system where insulin is rationed like gold dust and medical bankruptcy is a national pastime. The fact that you think you have the moral standing to lecture the country that invented modern medicine on 'medical decisions' is not just arrogant, it is grotesque!
Keep your chaos on your side of the Atlantic.
Mind your own business.”

 

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[Isabeau]

On mice so far, but wow

Scientists successfully achieve 'permanent disappearance of pancreatic cancer' in new study for cure

The team searching for a pancreatic cancer cure included the ‘renowned Dr Mariano Barbacid,' a legend in the cancer research field

www.unilad.com

 

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Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy

Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.

arstechnica.com

A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.

In a news release Tuesday, officials warned people not to consume any raw dairy, highlighting that it can be teeming with a variety of pathogens. Those germs are especially dangerous to pregnant women, as well as young children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems.

“Raw milk can contain numerous disease-causing germs, including Listeria, which is bacteria that can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, or fatal infection in newborns, even if the mother is only mildly ill,” the New Mexico Department of Health said in the press release.

The health department noted that it could not definitively link the baby’s death to the raw milk the mother drank. But raw milk is notorious for transmitting Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. The Food and Drug Administration has a “Food Safety for Moms-to-Be” webpage about Listeria, in which it poses the question and answer: “How could I get listeriosis? You can get listeriosis by eating raw, unpasteurized milk and unpasteurized milk products… .”

 

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And by "shell," they don't mean something you' might put up to your ear to listen to the sea...

French hospital treats man with shell up his rectum

A hospital in Toulouse, southwest France, confirmed Sunday they had treated a man who was admitted with a shell lodged in his rectum -- after calling a bomb disposal team.

www.ctvnews.ca

A hospital in Toulouse, southwest France, confirmed Sunday they had treated a man who was admitted with a shell lodged in his rectum -- after calling a bomb disposal team.

A member of staff who insisted on anonymity confirmed the report in the local paper la Depeche du Midi.

“They (the medical team) discovered it and they called the bomb disposal team,” said the source.

The patient was admitted overnight Saturday to Sunday.

Important part of the article:

He told staff at Rangueil hospital that he had introduced the object into his rectum himself, the newspaper reported.

 

[Noodles]

Sounds like a potential case of... explosive diarrhea.

 

[Casey Pelous]

He told staff at Rangueil hospital that he had introduced the object into his rectum himself, the newspaper reported.

Say, what? No amusing tale about slipping in the shower and, "I guess the potato just kinda ...?"

If only Diogenes could be here to see this.

 

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If only Diogenes could be here to see this.

Don't be a cynic.

 

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Oh my. It appears the doctor in Dr. Mehmet Oz has finally kicked in. I'd like to see more of this side of him, rather than the huckster.

(This is from the New York Times, but I think it's outside the paywall.)

Oz Offers Forceful Call for Vaccination as Measles Becomes More Dire

Dr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet from a top health official in the Trump administration, which has repeatedly undermined confidence in vaccine safety.

Dr. Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, told CNN on Sunday that there was a simple solution to the raging measles outbreak in South Carolina, which has infected more than 900 people and become the largest U.S. outbreak in recent history.

“Take the vaccine, please,” Dr. Oz said. He also pledged that there “will never be a barrier to Americans getting access to the measles vaccine.”