In 2017 we have literally hundreds of different coffee consumption studies examining links between the drink and a variety of different health […]
Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
Laurie McGinley, Reporter - The Washington Post
Stephan: This is at once a story of compassion and decency about a small group of health professionals who seek out and help those least able to help themselves; as well as a story of the abject failure of the American Illness Profit System to produce wellbeing.
Nurse Laura LaCroix was meeting with one of her many homeless patients in a downtown Dunkin’ Donuts when he mentioned that a buddy was lying in agony in the nearby woods.
“You should check on him,” said Pappy, as the older man is known. “But don’t worry, I put him on a tarp, so if he dies, you can just roll him into a hole.”
LaCroix called her boss, Brett Feldman, a physician assistant who heads the “street medicine” program at Lehigh Valley Health Network. He rushed out of a meeting, and together the two hiked into the woods. They found Jeff Gibson in a fetal position, vomiting green bile and crying out in pain from being punched in the stomach by another man days earlier.
Feldman told him he had to go to the hospital.
“Maybe tomorrow,” Gibson replied.
“Tomorrow you’ll be dead,” Feldman responded.
Months later, the 43-year-old Gibson is still in the woods, but this time showing off the six-inch scar — for a perforated intestine and peritonitis — that is evidence of surgical intervention. He greets Feldman warmly. “You’re the only person who could have gotten me to the hospital,” he says. “You’re the only person I trust.”
Pappy and Gibson are […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
PAM VOGEL, - Salon/Media Matters
Stephan: Over the last several days I have been running a series of reports on a major negative trend I see occurring, one that is substantially undermining the integrity of America's Fourth Estate. Time Magazine has just been purchased by the Meredith Corporation which is backed by the Koch Brothers. What do you think the effect of that will be?
Even worse the Sinclair Broadcast Group, thanks to the relaxed regulations of the FCC -- thanks to Trump -- has been given a green light to purchase Tribune Media. The result will drastically change the news coverage in at least 15 regions in the U.S. Here's the story. You, the local viewer, of course, had no say in any of this, just as the Republicans planned for it to happen.
Consumers are left to connect the dots about Sinclair on their own, which is exactly what the media giant wants — and which is why Media Matters has compiled a list of the communities where Sinclair is expected to grow soon.
Conservative local TV news giant Sinclair Broadcast Group has been quietly injecting right-wing spin into local newscasts for years. The company thrives when it flies under the radar, serving local audiences who might not realize what they’re tuning in for (emphasis added) — so Media Matters is helping to highlight where communities can fight back.
A massive umbrella study published in the British Medical Journal has concluded that moderate coffee intake is generally safe for most of the population. The review examined over 200 meta-studies on the health effects of coffee consumption and concluded that three to five cups a day looks to be the safest maximum volume one should consume.
