Health

It is not a secret and it is not new that public hospitals in Greece collapsed. As Keep TalkingGreece.com notes, the first budget cuts imposed with the first bailout agreement affected the public health. Seven years later, the situation goes from bad to worse in fast speed. The austerity freezing of hiring (1:7) ended up in severe shortages in medical and paramedical personnel. The sharp expenditure cuts deprive hospitals of spare parts and essential material.

Cannabidiol (CBD) one of the main ingredients in cannabis is about to be classed as a medicine by the UK medicines regulator. The decision made by the government’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) came about following claims that the drug successfully treats serious diseases. RT reports: The new classification means products containing CBD can now be legally distributed across the UK.

A 13-year-old boy who was left severely disabled following a routine vaccination has been awarded compensation by a United States Court.  The young man was left paralysed after being administered the hepatitis A and varicella vaccinations in 2009. Vactruth.com reports: After five long years of litigation, Health and Human Services (HHS), the Respondent in all vaccine injury cases, conceded that the varicella vaccination did in fact cause RD’s vaccine injury, transverse myelitis, which has left him a tetraplegic.

Historically, the United States has spent more money than any other country on healthcare.

In the late 1990s, for example, the U.S. spent roughly 13% of GDP on healthcare, compared to about a 9.5% average for all high income countries.

The death of Carrie Fisher this week could have been prevented had she not been prescribed ‘dangerous’ antidepressant drugs, according to doctors.  According to Dr. Pert and Dr. Heidi Connolly, SSRIs (commonly found in antidepressants) cause a gummy substance to build up in the heart and the brain, which can lead to heart problems with longterm use. Drugawareness.org reports: All I can say is that from day one of the SSRI stories I have seen this happen over and over again. Children should not die before their parents.