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| Bush Aide Blocked Surgeon General's Health Report |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 10:26 am |
| Tags: Cdc, William Steiger, Surgeon General |
| know who the Surgeon General is? Trick question, really because we don't have one. The last one to occupy that office (and supposedly the top public health officer in the US, the person who speaks directly to the American people about health issues that matter — smoking, for example) was Richard Carmona. Well, he didn't last and had a |
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| Stop Me If You've Heard This Before |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 3:32 pm |
| Tags: Surgeon General, Health, Poverty |
| in an area, who... A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according |
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| Matt Blunt's touching "concern" for women who have abortions. |
| Published: October 29, 2007, 9:04 pm |
| Tags: Abortion, Matt Blunt, Ronald Reagan, Everett Koop, Surgeon General, Lech Walesa, Russ Feingold, Martin Luther King, Cindy Province, Center For Practical Bioethics, Bible, Fundamentalism, John Mccastle, Alliance For Life, Connie Eller, Missouri Blacks For Life, Jay N |
| Matt Blunt, the wingnut governor of Missouri, shows such touching "concern" for woman who have abortions. He has convened a "scientific" task force that would determine the affect of abortions on women. Never mind that the article |
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| The Shafting Of Our Patriots In Military Service - Part II |
| Published: November 18, 2007, 7:41 pm |
| Tags: Iraq War, Surgeon General, Tbi, Army, Medical Corps, Bush Administration, Ptsd, Pollock, Iraq Casualties, Bushliburton |
| (In the second part in this series of postings it became obvious to me that not only were members of the reserves and the National Guard getting the shaft after being yanked away from their civilian lives, but also our career military personnel, people who have dedicated their entire productive adult lives in service to our country, are being |
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| The Shafting Of Our Patriots In Military Service - Part I |
| Published: November 18, 2007, 7:17 pm |
| Tags: Iraq War Casualties, Iraq, Surgeon General, Support The Troops, Tbi, Army, Bush Administration, Ptsd, Blackwater, Bushliburton |
| (The following is the first of four related posts, and was originally posted at the BFD Blog! in March of this year, it's original title was "The Shortchanging Of Our Citizen Soldiers". Over the past few months the issue of the mistreatment of our military volunteers has not abated, but it seems to have just festered. As an American citizen I must |
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| The Shafting Of Our Patriots In Military Service - Part IV |
| Published: November 24, 2007, 10:42 pm |
| Tags: Congress, Activism, Surgeon General, Support The Troops, Iraq Veterans Against The War, Ptsd, Military |
| roots campaign, pressure the Surgeon General of the Army and the Army as an institution to cease the misdiagnosing and railroading of PTSD |
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| Surgeon General: Santa's Too Fat [Tough Call] |
| Published: November 30, 2007, 7:02 pm |
| Tags: Obesity Epidemic, Polls, Surgeon General, Tough Call, War On Christmas |
| Acting U.S. Surgeon General Rear Adm. Steven K. Galson has launched the Administration’s first attack in this year’s War on Christmas. The ASG declared that Santa is too heavy to be a... |
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| Surgeon General: Santa's Too Fat [Tough Call] |
| Published: November 30, 2007, 7:02 pm |
| Tags: Obesity Epidemic, Polls, Surgeon General, Tough Call, War On Christmas |
| U.S. Surgeon General Rear Adm. Steven K. Galson has launched the Administration’s first attack in this year’s War on Christmas. The ASG declared that Santa is too heavy to be a good role model, telling the Boston Herald, “It is really important that the people who kids look up to as role models are in good shape, eating |
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| Exercise: Pedometers make perfect presents! |
| Published: December 6, 2007, 2:15 pm |
| Tags: Health, Weight Loss, Health Risks, Health Warnings, Diet And Excercise, Diet And Exercise, Fitness, Physical Activity, Holiday Gifts, Jama, Us Surgeon General |
| Human Services and the U.S. Surgeon General recommend physical activity most days of the week for at least 30 minutes for adults. Yet despite all the evidence for health benefits, less than half of all U.S. adults get adequate physical activity, with about 25 percent getting none at all! But enough of the bad news. A recent study, |
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| Blogging Kills Your Heart And Mind and All Of You [Surgeon General's Warning] |
| Published: January 9, 2008, 2:49 am |
| Tags: Quitting Blogging Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks To Your Health, Surgeon General S Warning, Work Is Hell |
| It's 2:38 in the morning and I just read in the New York Times about how the guy from GigaOm suffered a heart attack from the stress of posting on his blog. The headline of the article is Some... |
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| Return to sender |
| Published: February 9, 2008, 12:47 pm |
| Tags: Army Surgeon General, Iraq, Npr, Eric Shoomaker, Veterans, Fort Drum, Afghanistan, Ptsd, Caspar Weinberger |
| Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of Army Medical Command, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, was forced to resign over similar concerns regarding providing services to veterans.Some have suggested that the issue is completely economic, pointing to he notion that the more the Army has to shell out for veteran disability, |
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| Defendants' Lawyers Fear Loss of Potential Evidence at Guantanamo Bay |
| Published: February 14, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Defendants, Lawyers, Fear, Loss, Potential, Evidence, Guantanamo, Bay, Guantanamo Bay, Seton Hall University, David H Remes, Joshua Colangelo Bryan, Mark H Buzby, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Office Of The Army Surgeon General, New |
| Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed concern that the government has violated a federal court order by losing or erasing several years' worth of digital video recordings that could shed light on the legality of detainee treatment. |
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| Autism Treatment and Autism Advocacy in Canada: God Bless America! |
| Published: May 24, 2008, 5:54 am |
| Tags: Autism Treatment, United States, Us Surgeon General, Aba, Aap, Madsec, Autism Advocacy, Autism |
| Force, the Office of the US Surgeon General, and state authorities in New York and California, have all played critically important roles in educating Canadian parents about the scientific, evidentiary basis in support of the efficacy of autism treatments particularly ABA. The input of these US authorities has helped many Canadian parents |
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| Autism Society Canada Rejects Evidence Based Approach To Autism Treatment And Fails Autistic Children |
| Published: July 11, 2008, 4:56 am |
| Tags: Cihr, Us Surgeon General, Nysdoh, Applied Behavior Analysis, Autism Society Canada, Madsec Autism Task Force Report, Evidence Based Treatment, Autism, American Academy Of Pediatrics |
| Health: A Report of the US Surgeon General 1999Thirty years of research demonstrated the efficacy of applied behavioral methods in reducing inappropriate behavior and in increasing communication, learning, and appropriate social behavior. A well-designed study of a psychosocial intervention was carried out by Lovaas and colleagues (Lovaas, |
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