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TrueMajority

Dear Chris ,

   

When we passed a health care reform bill through the U.S. House late Saturday night,1 it should have been a moment to celebrate.

But instead of raising a glass to our success, insurance CEOs and their allies in the Senate have pronounced our reform bill "dead on arrival."2 After all we've fought for, these health care pirates are trying to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.

We've fought too hard to let them get away with it. So we're launching a nationwide tour with a giant, inflatable skull and crossbones that will expose these insurance CEOs and their allies in Congress for the scallywags they are.

You can join the fun by signing our petition and ordering a FREE matching bumper sticker. We'll deliver your signature to the insurance CEOs and senators who are fighting reform -- and you can show off the project every time you drive.

http://www.biginsurancekills.com

Insurance companies get rich by denying us care when we need it. And people like Melanie Shouse, David and Kelly Arellanes and others have shown us what happens when their greed goes unchecked.3

And that's why the bill that was passed on Saturday is so important. The House bill is not perfect, but it goes a long way toward fixing our broken system and curtailing the unchecked power of the big insurance companies.4

But with billions in profits and bonuses on the line, you can expect that insurance CEOs and their allies in Congress will say and spend anything to stop reform from passing in the Senate.

Our best chance to stop them is to draw media and public attention to their profiteering ways in a fun and flamboyant style. When we pull up outside a senator's office or an insurance industry conference with a 12-foot-tall skull and crossbones, people notice. And the more people who notice that the same insurance CEOs who are dropping our coverage and denying us care are also opposing reform in Congress, the better our chances are of passing a strong bill.

Sign the petition now and show the world that without reform, patients get buried and insurance companies keep the treasure.


-Drew

Drew Hudson
TrueMajority / USAction

Warding Off (Swine Flu) H1N1          
       
Dr. Vinay Goyal is an MBBS,DRM,DNB (Intensivist and Thyroid specialist) having clinical experience of over 20 years. He has worked in institutions like Hinduja Hospital , Bombay Hospital , Saifee Hospital ,Tata Memorial etc. Presently, he is heading our Nuclear Medicine Department and Thyroid clinic at Riddhivinayak Cardiac and Critical Centre, Malad (W).   The following message is given by him:



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The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is.

       

While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):

       

1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

       

2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).

       

3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

       

4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*

       

5. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.

               

6. *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

       

I suggest you pass this on to your entire e-list.  You never know who might pay attention to it - and STAY ALIVE because of it. 

COLD AND SWINE FLU

 Know the Difference between Cold and H1N1 Flu Symptoms

 Symptom

Cold

H1N1 Flu

Fever

Fever is rare with a cold.

Fever is usually present with the flu in up to 80% of all flu cases.  A temperature of 100°F or higher for 3 to 4 days is associated with the flu.

Coughing

A hacking, productive (mucus- producing) cough is often present with a cold.

A non-productive (non-mucus producing) cough is usually present with the flu (sometimes referred to as dry cough).

Aches

Slight body aches and pains can be part of a cold.

Severe aches and pains are common with the flu.

Stuffy Nose

Stuffy nose is commonly present with a cold and typically resolves spontaneously within a week.

Stuffy nose is not commonly present with the flu.

Chills

Chills are uncommon with a cold.

60% of people who have the flu experience chills.

Tiredness

Tiredness is fairly mild with a cold.

Tiredness is moderate to severe with the flu.

Sneezing

Sneezing is commonly present with a cold.

Sneezing is not common with the flu .

Sudden Symptoms

Cold symptoms tend to develop over a few days.

The flu has a rapid onset within 3-6 hours. The flu hits hard and includes sudden symptoms like high fever, aches and pains.

Headache

A headache is fairly uncommon with a cold.

A headache is very common with the flu, present in 80% of flu cases.

Sore Throat

Sore throat is commonly present with a cold.

Sore throat is not commonly present with the flu.

Chest Discomfort

Chest discomfort is mild to moderate with a cold.

Chest discomfort is often severe with the flu.

The only way to stop the spread of the epidemic is to spread the awareness.

 

STD E-MAIL

STD postcards: You've got mail — and more Early data shows it helps to have partners break bad news online By Brian Alexander updated 6:59 p.m. CT, Mon., Oct. 20, 2008 Thanks to a new Internet-based service called inSPOT, people are now receiving anonymous e-mails about sex, but they aren’t spam and there is no hidden ad for herbal concoctions to increase the size of anything. Rather, the “e-cards” are notices from a previous sex partner that the recipient may have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. The site, www.InSPOT.org , is a way for people newly diagnosed with an STD to notify their partners to be tested, too. The e-cards, a sort of greeting card you’d rather not receive, are direct and to the point. “Who? What? When? Where?” one available e-card begins. “It doesn’t matter. I got an STD; you might have it too. Please get checked out.” Recipients can then click links to learn more about STDs, possible treatments, and clinics in their cities where they can be tested. The service started in San Francisco in 2004 mainly to serve the gay community, but it has since been broadened to include heterosexuals and expanded to cities across North America. This month, early data reported in the journal PLoS Medicine shows the STD e-mail alerts are a success. The service is the creation of Deb Levine, a sex educator and author of a book called The Joy of Cybersex, and of Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner, director of STD Prevention and Control Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. “In 2001 I noticed a big rise in the number of syphilis cases among gay men,” recalls Klausner. “In 1998 it was about five cases. By 2001 we had 150 cases.” Klausner set out to discover why the rate jumped and learned that men had begun meeting each other online for casual encounters. Those encounters may be anonymous, but usually involve an exchange of e-mails. “That turned on a light for me and I realized we needed to do something online.” He tracked down Levine, who was living in Oakland, Calif., and the two created ISIS, a non-profit community organization to put sexual health information online. One of their first projects was the e-mail notification system. 49,500 postcards sent since 2004 More than 750 people visit the inSPOT site daily. Since 2004, the service has sent more than 49,500 e-cards. Syphilis and gonorrhea cases have each accounted for approximately 15 percent of the total cards sent, followed by chlamydia at 11.6 percent and HIV at 9.3 percent. More than half a dozen other diseases account for the rest, including crabs and scabies; hepatitis A, B and C and trichomoniasis, a parasitic STD. Importantly, the “click-through” rates, the number of recipients who click to see testing site information, is high for an e-mail response, ranging from 48 percent in Idaho to 20.4 percent in Los Angeles. “I think that is great,” says Andrew J. Woodruff, ISIS project director. “If you take 100 people, that is 20 who are finding out an important piece of information and being linked to services so they can take care of themselves. They might be 20 people who would never have known.” Receiving such an e-mail could elicit some pretty negative feelings, of course, but Klausner says that while recipients may not be thrilled, they are grateful. “I talk with them about how comfortable they would feel using it and their attitude is that ‘It works for me. I would be happy to help someone else,’” he says. Many recipients tell him they had not been, and probably would not have been, notified by any other means. So far he has received only about three angry e-mails “from people who said ‘This is clearly a mistake! How can you make this so easily available?’” But almost all comments are positive. Data on inSPOT’s real effectiveness is still spotty. Nobody knows the number of people who use the service who would not have otherwise notified partners, for example. And it’s too soon to know the effects, if any, on the rate of STD infections, diagnoses, or numbers treated in the cities where inSPOT is operating. But the idea makes sense, according to Mary McFarlane, a behavioral scientist with the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. “The Internet is a good place to generate risk behavior, and if we want to do public health, and stop the spread of diseases, we need to be where those risk behaviors are, and introduce health into this venue." Dr. Emily Erbelding, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and the director of clinical services for STD clinics run by the city of Baltimore’s Department of Public Health, believes that “if this leads to more people knowing they might have been exposed to STDs and leads to them getting an evaluation and treatment, it is a good thing.” Lack of face-to-face contact is worrisome One drawback, Erbelding says, may be the lack of face-to-face conversation about sex and risk between partners. And in some ways it may be too convenient. In San Francisco, for example, a person receiving a notice about being exposed to chlamydia can click to download a prescription to cure the disease and bypass a doctor’s visit. But seeing a doctor could reveal other STDs or health issues a patient should address. However, the inSPOT service may already be slightly behind the technology wave, the CDC's McFarlane believes. “More and more people are going with mobile phone technology” to facilitate casual hookups she says. “I think it is very important that we in public health pay attention to these innovations and provide health information in those places.” Still, Erbelding and Klausner say the cost to health departments to set up and operate such a system is low (about $15,000 initial outlay) at a time when public health budgets are stagnant or even declining. In many locations across the country, patients diagnosed with reportable diseases like syphilis may or may not get a call from the local health department. Even if they do, and agree to identify partners, many agencies do not have the manpower to contact those people. Often, it is left to the diagnosing doctor to urge partner notification. Now, such a doctor can simply hand the patient a palm card with inSPOT’s Internet address. Brian Alexander is the author of the new book “America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction."
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