Is it caused by a disease?
I have Lupus, Evans Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Sjogrens. Are there scholarships for ANY of these? I’m asking because, thanks to my various hospital stays, treatments, and medications, my family cannot afford to send me to college. I have a 4.5 GPA and 32 ACT, if that is relevant.
Did you even read my question?
I’ve already been accepted, by the way. I’m not looking for sympathy; I’m looking for financial aid due to medical bills.
I’ll definitely try googling it.
To JD: Thanks for understanding. My family is struggling because of my expenses, but my dad makes way too much money for me to qualify for most grants and loans. Most scholarships don’t take medical bills into account, or at least not the ones I’ve seen so far.
I know that there are scholarships for other disabilities and illnesses that I’ve seen at school, like epilepsy, asthma, deafness, blindness, etc. That’s why I am curious.
Zero deaths caused by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbs
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we’re told, because they’re so dangerous!
Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise. According to a 174-page report just published, the number of people killed in 2009 across America by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbal supplements is exactly zero.
Compare that to the 100,000 (or so) Americans killed each year by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals — and that’s even according to studies published in JAMA. Also consider the thousands of women harmed or killed by medically-unjustified cancer treatments following false positives from faulty mammograms. And don’t forget about the more than 16,500 Americans killed each year from internal bleeding caused by NSAIDs (over-the-counter painkillers).
As the July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains:
“Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone.” (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)
So if NSAIDs alone are killing 16,500 people a year (or likely much more now, as use of these drugs has risen significantly since 1998), and nutritional supplements are killing zero people a year, why do health regulators try to scare everybody about vitamins being so “dangerous?”
Pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, are openly allowed to be prescribed for off-label use, meaning that doctors can prescribe them for diseases and health conditions for which they’ve never even been tested!
What’s wrong with this picture? It’s clearly a war against nutrition — a war against natural medicine — being waged by the health regulators of the world who are conspiring with Big Pharma to keep the people trapped in a state of malnutrition (all while profiting from their disease by selling them more patented pharmaceuticals).
The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service published a full article on this issue. Here’s what they had to say about the safety of nutritional supplements and the misguided attempts by world governments to limit or outlaw many supplements.
No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements’ Safety
There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.
Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John’s wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.
Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other “Electrolyte and Mineral” category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.
No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.
61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is “one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking.”
Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.
If nutritional supplements are allegedly so “dangerous,” as the FDA and news medi
And could you also tell me more awhat these dogs can do exactly and where could i find more information at. im asking because my grandma lives alone in another state ( we tried to get her to come live with or near us but she doesnt want to) and she has rhumatoid arthritis and has had knee replacments in both of her legs. She can still walk and can remember stuff very well but imean she cant get around like she used to and cant lift things like she used to. She also does not have a car as when she was driving she was hit by another car and does not have the money riht now to pay for a new car. could a service dog help her in chores like getting something that may be too heavy for her or just giving her some company as we do visit her but we cant visit her always. thanks for awnsering in advance.
i meant heavy as in a plastic laundry basket or a small jug
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124692973435303415.html
Do you know what the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, in the UK is? Like the governmental committee to make ‘recommendations’ on care and best practices in Obamacare, NICE was originally set up just to advise on best practices, but mutated.
“What NICE has become in practice is a rationing board. As health costs have exploded in Britain as in most developed countries, NICE has become the heavy that reduces spending by limiting the treatments that 61 million citizens are allowed to receive through the NHS. For example:
In March, NICE ruled against the use of two drugs, Lapatinib and Sutent, that prolong the life of those with certain forms of breast and stomach cancer. This followed on a 2008 ruling against drugs — including Sutent, which costs about $50,000 — that would help terminally ill kidney-cancer patients. After last year’s ruling, Peter Littlejohns, NICE’s clinical and public health director, noted that “there is a limited pot of money,” that the drugs were of “marginal benefit at quite often an extreme cost,” and the money might be better spent elsewhere.
In 2007, the board restricted access to two drugs for macular degeneration, a cause of blindness. The drug Macugen was blocked outright. The other, Lucentis, was limited to a particular category of individuals with the disease, restricting it to about one in five sufferers. Even then, the drug was only approved for use in one eye, meaning those lucky enough to get it would still go blind in the other. As Andrew Dillon, the chief executive of NICE, explained at the time: “When treatments are very expensive, we have to use them where they give the most benefit to patients.”
NICE has limited the use of Alzheimer’s drugs, including Aricept, for patients in the early stages of the disease. Doctors in the U.K. argued vociferously that the most effective way to slow the progress of the disease is to give drugs at the first sign of dementia. NICE ruled the drugs were not “cost effective” in early stages.
Other NICE rulings include the rejection of Kineret, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis; Avonex, which reduces the relapse rate in patients with multiple sclerosis; and lenalidomide, which fights multiple myeloma. Private U.S. insurers often cover all, or at least portions, of the cost of many of these NICE-denied drugs.
NICE has also produced guidance that restrains certain surgical operations and treatments. NICE has restrictions on fertility treatments, as well as on procedures for back pain, including surgeries and steroid injections. The U.K. has recently been absorbed by the cases of several young women who developed cervical cancer after being denied pap smears by a related health authority, the Cervical Screening Programme, which in order to reduce government health-care spending has refused the screens to women under age 25.
Sound good to you?
Doesn’t sound good to me.
Sunshine he said 2/3 not 1/3 and since he is ADDING huge committee and oversight structures and keeping insurance involved as well, there is no savings. That is the problem the CBO had with it. It doesn’t cut costs. So to take the money from medicare means cutting service.
I have a Golden retriever dog who is 12 and has arthritis. My vet tells me he needs to lose weight and I have explained this to my neighbours and asked them to stop feeding him tidbits. My neighbours think he is too thin but I have asked the vet and the vet said he is definitely NOT too thin and does need to lose a little weight. I think they think I am cruel for not giving him treats and only feeding him dry dog food. The dry dog food I feed him is very expensive Hills JD food specifically for arthritis. My neighbours do not understand this and think only one biscuit won’t harm and keep feeding him over the fence. I don’t want to fall out with them so I was thinking of making up a medical problem which means he really can only eat his proper dog food. I was thinking of something like diabetes but apparently all dogs with diabetes need insulin and as they look after him from time to time they will know he doesn’t have insulin. So… can anyone think of a believable white lie to get them to stop feeding him? I have tried explaining that his weight makes his arthritis worse and that the vet has said all the drugs and treatments in the world won’t do as much good as keeping his weight down. The problem is I just don’t think they believe that the odd biscuit makes much difference.
What kind of world is this where people call people fat?
okay, well i am 12and or 13, im 5′2, and im 170 lbs. i am working on my weight, but it is hard to work on my weight while still being called fat. some people didn’t even notice the 18 pounds i lost in 6th grade, so i gained them back in 7th grade. i am just saying… i don’t get why people call people fat
I really am not saying that a 400+ person is skinny, but can’t people just tell them nicely to lose weight? not to make them feel better, but to live longer.Some people who are 30+ years of age have a hard time losing weight too.Their matabolism isn’t as fast as they were as a kid. or maybe, obesity ran in your family and you were also called this so called ”fat”
Anyway, there are also some people saying that these ”fat” people are just sob stories and that fat people can’t go on diets because they don’t have controll over junk food.I personally don’t think that is true. It is verry sterotypical.There is a good possibility that that happens, but sometimes, people are fat from diseases or because of a troubled past.
For me, the reason why i am overweight is because of the people at my school. in 3rd grade, people were still 30-40 pounds. i was about 50, so they would call me this so- called fat.They would call me fat over and over again, till what i am today. which is a 5′2, 12and or 13 year old, who is 170 pounds.(and for your info, i am eating healthier, working out more, ect… to make myself healthy ( not just thin) but healthy.
And some people who are skinny, possibly eat junk food and get away with it. they problably have fast matabolisms.You never really know.Someone who is really skinny can eat what a 300 pound person would eat. I know this because the kids at my school who are skinny eat bigmacs, pizza, candies, ect…
And people who are saying that we pay for fat people is what i don’t get. i am not at an age where i understand this type of stuff, so i will not say anything about that.
But anyways, anyone know why people call these people hurtful names? i do not really get it.And any of you who are reading this, i don’t want you to feel sorry for me because i am fat.I dont want to be a sob story.I just want to make my point on why are these people so made fun of.More fat people are made fun of instead of skinny people. but some skinny people look really bad and really unattractive.So if someone says that obease people look gross, go look up amorexic/bulemic people and see how THAT is gross.
Anyway, like i said, why are these people made fun of so much?
p.s. i have juvinile arthritis(rheumatoid) so i have limited motion in my joints.
I am talking about responsible, clean living people who come down with ailments such as MS, ALS, cancer, strokes, Alzheimer’s Disease, Crohn’s Disease, arthritis, etc. We always hear about how people with bad health brought it upon themselves through smoking, drinking, promiscuous sex, etc., but what about those who didn’t? It’s easier to sleep at night believing that all the sick in America got that way because of bad habits, but it’s harder to deal with the fact that innocent people become ill and can’t get preventive treatment (incidentally an emergency room visit is not preventive, ongoing treatment), so how do we sweep this under the rug before our argument for denying others help is partially invalidated?