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Are you wondering what the mainstream media is hiding about US health-care reform? "Beyond Sicko" discusses what's wrong with the current US health-care system and concrete ideas on how to fix it.This four-part series was recorded at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in mid-July 09. Part 4 looks at employer-based insurance, the single-payer system, HR676 and preventive medicine. Action tips are given. Host: Heather Wokusch, Guest: Beth Hart, Producer/Director: Gloria Messer.Are you wondering what the mainstream media is hiding about US health-care reform?... more
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Are you wondering what the mainstream media is hiding about US health-care reform? "Beyond Sicko" discusses what's wrong with the current US health-care system and concrete ideas on how to fix it.This four-part series was recorded at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in mid-July 09. Part 2 looks at preventive medicine, the power of US pharmaceutical companies and questionable choices of the Obama administration and the Senate Finance Committee. Host: Heather Wokusch, Guest: Beth Hart, Producer/Director: Gloria Messer.Are you wondering what the mainstream media is hiding about US health-care reform?... more
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When the first cell in one of Brenda Rosenthal's ovaries mutated and turned cancerous, she felt no symptoms. The telltale pains or lumps that signal cancer were still months, if not years, away. But there were signs, sparks thrown off by the tumor that had begun to smolder in her belly. As more cells were conscripted from the original task coded in their DNA and assigned a new, malignant mission, they produced proteins that leaked into Rosenthal's bloodstream. Had an effort been made to see these molecules, had there been a strategy for detecting them, the 69-year-old wouldn't face such long odds today.
Certainly, there were statistical red flags, if only Rosenthal had known to look for them. Twenty years before, she had survived a bout of breast cancer, increasing her risk for ovarian cancer in the future. That risk was exacerbated by a mutation in her BRCA2 gene that's been associated with much higher rates of breast and ovarian cancers.When the first cell in one of Brenda Rosenthal's ovaries mutated and turned... more
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