via BBC.

One of Steve Jobs’ closest friends and business allies has said the former Apple boss’s own self-belief and mindset led him to put off having his cancer treated.

He decided instead to explore alternative therapies and go on a special diet.

Mr Tevanian said: “Steve was an unconventional person and when it came to treating his illness he was very happy to use non-traditional methods.

And sadly, us proven….

“I think he truly thought that through some unconventional means he could cure himself.”

He was diagnosed with insulinoma, which unlike other pancreatic cancers, is curable and can be treated with surgery.

However, he believed in the idea of alternative medicine.  Some can say this fake medicine is harmless but, if it stops you from getting real treatment the results can be deadly.

Doctors recommended an early operation but Mr Jobs could not be persuaded to stop his pursuit of alternative remedies.

via The Telegraph.

EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.”

“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.

“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”

Via The Sacramento Press.

The company that sold plastic wristbands with bold claims of health benefits and then bought the naming rights for the arena where the Sacramento Kings play (or would be playing if there wasn’t currently an ongoing labor dispute) has filed for bankruptcy, according to reports.

Power Balance, who sold the completely useless trinkets for as much as $30 a pop, recently settled a $57.4 million dollar class-action lawsuit with its customers for false advertising. Under terms of the agreement, anybody who was foolish enough to pay for a Power Balance Bracelet can get their money back plus up to $5 to cover the costs of shipping and handling.

A spokesman for the Kings was quoted in the Sacramento Bee as saying that “we expect to continue our productive partnership through this process and into the future.” How the company can be expected to continue any partnerships remains to be seen, as it is expected that very soon the company will cease to exist.

via BBC.

The latest study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than 350,000 people with mobile phones over an 18-year period.

Researchers concluded users were at no greater risk than anyone else of developing brain cancer.

The findings, published on the British Medical Journal website, come after a series of studies have come to similar conclusions.

Yeah!  I can keep using my ass kicking Galaxy S2 Phone!

Hazel Nunn, head of evidence and health information at Cancer Research UK, said: “These results are the strongest evidence yet that using a mobile phone does not seem to increase the risk of cancers of the brain or central nervous system in adults.”

Prof Anders Ahlbom, from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, praised the way the study was conducted, adding the findings were “reassuring”.

Prof David Spiegelhalter, an expert specialising in the understanding of risk who is based at the University of Cambridge, said: “The mobile phone records only go up to 1995 and so the comparison is mainly between early and late adopters, but the lack of any effect on brain tumours is still very important evidence.”

And Prof Malcolm Sperrin, director of medical physics at Royal Berkshire Hospital, said: “The findings clearly reveal that there is no additional overall risk of developing a cancer in the brain although there does seem to be some minor, and not statistically significant, variations in the type of cancer.”

It so simple.  Can the truthers go away now.

via Yahoo news.

Oz, one of TV’s most popular medical experts, said on his Fox…

FOX?  That should be your first warning sign.

…testing by a New Jersey lab had found what he suggested were troubling levels of arsenic in many brands of juice.

How terrible!  Good thing this Oz guy is here to help.  Er….maybe not.

The Food and Drug Administration said its own tests show no such thing, even on one of the same juice batches Oz cited.

“There is no evidence of any public health risk from drinking these juices. And FDA has been testing them for years,” the agency said in a statement.

The flap escalated Thursday, when Oz’s former medical school classmate Dr. Richard Besser lambasted him on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show for what Besser called an “extremely irresponsible” report that was akin to “yelling ‘Fire!’ in a movie theater.”

Besser was acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining ABC news as health and medical editor several years ago.

Oz is Pwnd!

Arsenic is naturally present in water, air, food and soil in two forms — organic and inorganic. According to the FDA, organic arsenic passes through the body quickly and is essentially harmless. Inorganic arsenic — the type found in pesticides — can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period.

“The Dr. Oz Show” did not break down the type when it tested several dozen juice samples for total arsenic. As a result, the FDA said the results are misleading.

Furthermore, the agency’s own tests found far lower total arsenic levels from one of the same juice batches the Oz show tested — 2 to 6 parts per billion of arsenic versus the 36 that Oz’s show had claimed.

Hey Ozy… time to step up and admit that you are a poor doctor and a lousy scientist.  Now he knows better.  If only he knew in advance….

In a letter published on the Oz show’s website, Nestle said it told the program’s producer in advance that the method the show’s lab used was intended for testing waste water, not fruit juice, and “therefore their results would be unreliable at best.”

The FDA also sent a letter in advance to the show and threatened to post its findings and the letters online if the program proceeded.

Oz went ahead.

I guess that makes in a fear-mongering douche bag!

Tim Sullivan, a spokesman for Oz’s show, said in an interview: “We don’t think the show is irresponsible. We think the public has a right to know what’s in their foods.”

The show doubles down on stupid!

In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, even Oz said he wouldn’t hesitate to keep giving his four children apple juice.

WTF – even Ozy ain’t buying the shit he is selling. Damn shame!

The below clip of Ron Paul was sad for so many  reasons.  The basic question put to Ron Paul… What happens to a person the gets seriously hurt but does not have insurance.

Watch the whole clip so you can see it in context but, at 0:58 it gets real exciting….

Wolf:  Congressman are you saying that society should just let him die?

Crowd:  Yes, Yeah, yeah!

WTF!  Only teabaggers can make Ron Paul look like the sane one in the room.

Ron then talks about the 60′s when hospitals took people in and helped them.  Hey Ron, they still do that today!  He then goes into a blur of buzz words… Churches, Cost is so high, bureaucracy, insurance companies, drug companies, inflation, blah, blah, blah.  He ends by promoting alternative health care.

Ron Paul is a scary woo loving, fundie, creationist and I don’t want the America that he wants.

Here is an example of the America that I want!

They did not ask if he had insurance, they did not ask if he was a christian, they did not tell him it was his fault for not having a helmet.  These people saw another human that needed help and they did what they could and the saved his life.  This is my America!

WOW!  This may be the best Eddie Current video ever!

10 Years ago she said she would test for the $1 Million – she lied!