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Single Payer Health Care Reform Is In Sight - But Watch Out For Big Insurance Trying To Stop It

Posted on July 21, 2009
I just watched a disgusting story on CNN about a $900 wheelchair. The wheelchair can be bought on new E-Bay for $300 with free shipping. Or the manufacturer will sell it to you for $600. But if you get it through the current private health insurance system it will cost close to $1,000...

SUV Driver Who Killed Teen In Waimanalo Suspected of Drunk Driving

Posted on July 19, 2009
A tragic teen pedestrian death in Waimanalo now seems to be the result of intoxication as police have arrested the 46 year-old Waimanalo man who was driving the SUV of suspicion of drunk driving as reported by John Windrow of the Honolulu Advertiser ...

Teen Killed In Yet Another Pedestrian Death On Oahu

Posted on July 18, 2009
KHON TV News reports the death of a 15 year-old boy in Waimanalo shortly after midnight on Saturday morning: Police say a 15 year -old teen from Waimanalo was killed this morning after an SUV hit him. The accident happened around 1:55 a.m. fronting the Waimanalo Town Center...

Multiple Injuries In Kauai Car Crash

Posted on July 18, 2009
Multiple people were injured in an automobile accident on Kauai on Tuesday that closed Kuhio Highway according to a statement from Kauai County officials. The crash happened at about 11 a.m. across from Kauai Community Correctional Center. The roadway was reopened at 2 p...

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Hawaii Has Third Swine Flu Death As Research Shows That H1N1 Pandemic Virus Is More Dangerous Than Health Officials Admit

Posted on July 18, 2009
Hawaii has now recorded its third swine flu death when a Big Island woman in he early 50s died on July 7 at Kona Community Hospital. The first Hawaii swine flu death happened on June 6 when a woman in her 60s died at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu...

Hilo Motorcycle Death On Hawaii Belt Road Leads To Negligent Homicide Investigation

Posted on July 18, 2009
In another sad day on Hawaii roads Hilo resident Joseph Flood, Sr., died as he road his Harley Davidson motorcycle north on Hawaii Belt Road (Route 11). The call came into police at 11:55 A.M. on Monday July 13th reporting the crash. A 67 year old Kurtistown woman had turned left onto Hawaii Belt Road after stopping at the stop sign at the intersection of Makalika Street...

Coffee Drinking May Reduce Risk Of Endometrial Cancer In Women

Posted on July 17, 2009
The International Journal of Cancer has reported that drinking coffee may decrease the risk of a woman getting endometrial cancer. In a population-based study cohort study the Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Intstitutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Insulin resistance has been linked to endometrial cancer and now coffee drinking has been reported to have beneficial effects on insulin resistance...

New Study Of Danish Women Connects Hormone Therapy And Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer

Posted on July 17, 2009
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports an important study regarding womens' health on the connection between Hormone therapy and ovarian cancer. The research measured the risk of ovarian cancer (OC) in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women receiving different hormone therapies...

Scientists Uncover How Staph Infections Change Our Immune System

Posted on July 17, 2009
Attorneys handling personal injury and medical malpractice cases often get calls from patients who have contracted a Staph infection in a hospital and often after a surgery. Of course the patient is upset and sometimes the matter can be attributed to negligence by the hospital of medical staff...

Another Serious Pedestrian Automobile Accident In Laie Leaves 30 Year Old Man in Critical Condition Monday

Posted on July 16, 2009
Another pedestrian is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in Laie according to news reports. The pedestrian was not in a marked crosswalk when he stepped into the road at about 8:30 PM on Kamehameha Highway near Kokololio Beach Park...

Ocean Personal Injury Law - In A Jones Act Injury Case What Does It Mean To "Arrest the Ship"?

Posted on July 16, 2009
How do you make Jones work you? If you are a 'Jones Act' Seaman and you have been injured while working then the first step is file a complaint with the State or Federal Court for your employer's Jones Act negligence. Unlike land-based employees, Jones Act seamen are able to file a negligence claim against their employer for injuries, failing to provide a safe work environment, and for an unseaworthy vessel; a seaman's damages are not limited to worker compensation type damages...

Another Day of More Spin: Do We Care If Sotomayor Answers Questions?

Posted on July 16, 2009
The fact is that Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor is avoiding answering questions. Hours go by and no question is answered with anything but political speak. Is that important? I think it is and I think that we should break through the barrier of spin...

House Democrats Reveal Health Overhaul Plan.

Posted on July 15, 2009
Yesterday's unveiling of a healthcare reform plan backed by the House Democratic leadership received coverage (though not top billing) from two network newscasts last night. This morning's newspapers, however, describe the plan as an historic step towards universal health insurance...

Want To Know The Top Rated Consumer Advocates?

Posted on July 14, 2009
Tired of false advertising, abusive insurance companies, frustrating dealings with health care, unsafe consumer products, toxins in your home and all other matters that affect your health and your pocket book? I know that I am and so I made a list of the organizations _ all not for profit _ that are doing the best job for all of us and who tell the truth about things: Public Citizen (www...

Honolulu Health Chronicles: International Study of H1N1 Pandemic Virus Shows Great Danger

Posted on July 14, 2009
The filamentous shape of H1N1 shown budding from infected cells Image: courtesy Yoshihiro Kawaoka - University of Wisconsin The prestigious science journal Nature felt so strongly about the importance of a new international collaborative analysis of what H1N1 pandemic flu virus really is, that they took the exceptional measure of fast track publication of the news...

Is The Conservative Attack On Sotomayor A Double Standard?

Posted on July 14, 2009
I am using the term "conservative" rather than Republican to describe the current confirmation hearing squabbles over Sonia Sotomayor. Many Republicans support her because of her obvious qualifications. It is a small group of the "no" part of the conservative movement that opposes her...

Personal Injury Automobile Inusrance: UM/UIM Stacking Rules In Hawaii

Posted on July 14, 2009
Personal Injury Automobile Insurance: Hit by an uninsured motorist? Try to 'stack.' UM/UIM Stacking Rules In Hawaii Uninsured/ underinsured coverage protects you in case you are injured by an uninsured or under-insured driver. When you purchase UM/UIM insurance you are essentially buying it for motorists who are either uninsured, because they have no insurance, or under-insured, meaning they don't have enough insurance to satisfy your total claim...

Pesticide Residue In Kitchen Floors

Posted on July 11, 2009
KHNL reports that your kitchen floors - the ones that your kids are crawling around on as you read this, are laden with the worst cancer causing chemicals. Don't trust KHNL? Try the EPA and those who care about your family and cancer. Have you heard the five (5) second rule? Basically the five second rule is a rule that says when you eat food that has dropped on the floor it is safe if it was on the floor for less than three seconds...

Wrong-way Drivers Contribute To Automible Accident Death and Injury

Posted on July 10, 2009
Since the creation of the interstate highway system in the 1950's, wrong way driving on freeways has been a constant traffic hazard to motorists nationwide. Although there have been years of redesign, changed marking, and improvements at interchanges, the problem of wrong way driving is still prevalent on our nations major highways...

FDA Less Careful With Bottled Water Than EPA Is With Tap Water.

Posted on July 09, 2009
In a story that generated a great deal of media interest, congressional hearings today focused on two separate reports that concluded that the EPA regulates tap water more carefully than the FDA does bottled water. The Wall Street Journal reports : (7/9, Zhang) "The Food and Drug Administration, which oversees the $11...

Doctors Starting Salaries - Do We Really Feel Sorry For People Who Make This Much?

Posted on July 08, 2009
In the 'Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2007 Report Based on 2006 Data,' conducted in collaboration with the National Association of Physician Recruiters, found that physician-owned practices offered comparable salaries to hospital/IDS salaries for family practice without obstetrics ($130,000 versus $135,000), general internal medicine ($150,000 vs...

Sad Day For Americans: Judge Allows GM to Escape Payments to Victims of Injury and Death From Defective GM Cars

Posted on July 08, 2009
If the damage done to the American economy, American workers and all of us by the inept and perhaps crooked management at General Motors (GM), The U.S. Treasury and now a federal judge have told these wealthy idiots that they don't have to pay victims of defective GM cars...

Judge approves GM asset sale, clearing way for restructuring.

Posted on July 06, 2009
On the front page of its business section the New York Times (7/6, B1, De La Merced) reports that US Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert E. Gerber "approved a plan by General Motors late on Sunday to sell its best assets to a new, government-backed company, a crucial step for the automaker to restructure and complete its trip through bankruptcy court...

Insurance Companies Are The Problem With Our Health Care System - We Must Have Single Payer

Posted on July 06, 2009
In an article written by doctors, the myth of lawsuit abuse as being the cause of the cost of health care is once again debunked. In Fact and Fiction: Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System, by Sarpel, Umut MD; Vladeck, Bruce C. PhD; Divino, Celia M...

Lawsuit Abuse? Medical Malpractice Crisis? Shame on Doctors and the AMA!

Posted on July 05, 2009
Headline news: Medical Malpractice Payments Fall to Record Low, Public Citizen Study Shows: Medical malpractice payments were at or near record lows in 2008, but the decline almost certainly indicates that a lower percentage of injured patients received compensation, not that health safety has improved, Public Citizen reported in a study released today...

Hawaii Legislative Alert! Why The Low Policy Limits On Automobile Insurance Coverages?

Posted on July 05, 2009
Hawaii legislators think that $20,000 is enough Bodily Injury Coverage: What mandatory auto insurance laws exist in Hawaii? In Hawaii, all motorists must carry minimum levels of liability coverage. The minimum levels are $20,000 per person for bodily injury, $40,000 per accident for bodily injury, $10,000 per accident for property damage, and $10,000 personal injury protection (PIP)...

What Car Insurance Should I Buy?

Posted on July 04, 2009
1. PIP (personal injury protection): PIP is what pays for your medical care and wage loss if you are injured. PIP coverage is cheap. Make sure you get the maximum that they will sell you. Your agent should tell you to max this PIP coverage. Five days in the intensive care unit will cost $400,000...

Toxic Air Pollutants Assessed By The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Posted on July 04, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency may be shaking off the dust of inaction during 8 years of Bush/Chaney rule and looking out for our environment again. Air pollution is a major health problem in the major metropolitan areas. Diseases from these pollutants drive up the cost of health care, sap taxpayer dollars for health care and, saving the worst for last, cause serious injury or death to real people...

Jim Dean and Democracy For America Identify Democrats in Congress Who are Cutting Deals With The Insurance Industry

Posted on July 02, 2009
Meaningful Health Care Reform is being sabotaged by democrats who have close ties to the insurance industry. I have written about this before as have others and I encourage all Americans to look closely at what is happening in Congress and to speak up...

Is A Social Networking Website Like MySpace Responsible For a Rape That Occurs Between Users? A California Court Says "No"!

Posted on July 02, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle (7/2, B3, Egelko) reports, "Girls who were sexually assaulted by men they first contacted on MySpace cannot seek damages from the social-networking Web site, which is protected from liability by federal law, a state appeals court has ruled...

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