The Natural Nurse And Dr. Z – Sexual Seniors – 03.07.17

Host Ellen Kamhi PhD RN, www.naturalnurse.com, interviews Mary Beth White, RN, MS, NP, NC-BC. Mary Beth White is a Registered Nurse in Advanced Practice with more than 30 years experience as a Nurse Practitioner. With a primary area of expertise in Women’s Health/Gynecology, she is also an Adult Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Colposcopist and is nationally certified as an Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse and Nurse Coach by American Holistic Nurses Association. She is a faculty member of the Huntington Meditation and Imagery Center where she assists in the development of other health care practitioners choosing to become Transpersonal Coaches. In addition, she has a private practice as a CranioSacral Therapist and Transpersonal Nurse Coach.
In the early 90’s, she completed a fellowship as an HIV Clinical Scholar through the AIDS Institute of the New York State Department of Health and the State University Hospital at Stony Brook, and has been a Hospice Nurse. Contact: wellcairnp@gmail.com and www.wellcairn.com

INSIGHT – THE WORLD OF SPIES AND HACKS – HOW ADDING A TWIST TO YOUR PROFESSION CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE – 01.26.17

The POTUS refuses to acknowledge Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election though my guest, T.L. Williams, a former CIA operative shares how cyber warfare will continue to escalate and the ramifications on the U.S. and the world.  Learn why Tim Fitzgerald is taking his social worker practice to Thailand where elephant rides, meditation and calming the mind will redefine …

The Congressional Budget Office has some bad news for Obamacare repealers

The Congressional Budget Office has stepped into the Obamacare repeal fight, issuing a fierce warning to Republicans in the form of … a sternly worded blog post. CBO is the government’s nonpartisan scorekeeper, the agency that tells Congress how much new programs cost and who they’ll cover. Their analysts will estimate how many people get insurance under any Republican replacement …

Why the hype around medical genetics is a public enemy

Science has always issued medical promissory notes. In the 17th century, Francis Bacon promised that an understanding of the true mechanisms of disease would enable us to extend life almost indefinitely; René Descartes thought that 1,000 years sounded reasonable. But no science has been more optimistic, more based on promises, than medical genetics. Recently, I read an article promising that …

US health care tab hits $3.2T; fastest growth in 8 years

The nation’s health care tab grew at the fastest rate in eight years in 2015, driven by the coverage expansion in President Barack Obama’s law and by costly prescription drugs, the government said Friday. The growth of 5.8 percent in 2015 boosted total health care spending to $3.2 trillion. That’s an average of $9,990 per person, although the vast share …

Dr. Mercola – How Biased Research Drives Your Health Care

The gold standard for modern medicine is the double-blind, placebo-controlled and randomized trial. But there are serious problems with many published studies, unknown to most, but acknowledged by researchers. The modern medical paradigm revolves around two words: scientifically proven. It is this phrase that public health agencies, physicians and researchers use to promote their products. Scientists can easily set up …

Richard Eskow – Behind the Job Numbers, Millions Are Being Left Behind

A team of political scientists, writing in the Washington Post, concluded that “Trump supporters who are struggling economically perceive U.S. economic performance overall to be much worse than it actually is.” Those voters believed that the unemployment rate is three times higher than the official number, and these new figures aren’t likely to change that. “It is noteworthy,” the researchers …

Henry A. Giroux | The United States’ War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors’ Prisons

If one important measure of a democracy is how a society treats its children, especially poor youth of color, there can be little doubt that American society is failing. As the United States increasingly models its schools after prisons and subjects children to a criminal legal system marked by severe class and racial inequities, it becomes clear that such children …

The Natural Nurse and Dr. Z – Nurse Aimee Whalen – 09.27.16

Host Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, www.naturalnurse.com , interviews Nurse Aimee Whalen. Amy is a polymath of the health arts. Specializing in both biofeedback and CranioSacral modes of therapy, she is also a registered nurse, a Reiki Master, and a certified Infant Massage Instructor. She trained with Dr. Linda Lancaster and completed a Masters in Medical Radiesthesia. With over thirty years of practice she skillfully combines scientific rigor with intuitive sensitivity to hone in on the patient’s body-mind as a whole ecosystem of organs and energies, in need of revisiting, renewal and compassionate care. Aimee has lectured on a variety of topics from medical care of HIV infants and children to preventing school gun violence through increased parent and school personnel recognition of subtle cues.

Connect the Dots – Margaret Flowers, MD, Green Candidate for Senator – 09.14.16

Listen to Margaret Flowers, MD, co-founder of Popular Resistance and #FlushtheTPP as she discusses her Senate run in the state of Maryland. A frequent guest on Connect the Dots and a long time champion of Single Payer Health Care, Flowers will discuss with Alison Rose Levy the role of third parties in breaking the two party duopoly and the deadlock it creates for democracy and protecting our environment.