If the Queensland Labor government gets its way, it will soon be illegal in that state to do anything other than mutilate and likely sterilise the bodies of gender-confused young children. What’s worse, this shocking law cloaks itself in a false veneer of “compassion”, shouting down all opposition as
JoNel Aleccia Kaiser Health News Kathy Brandt, a hospice industry leader who turned her own terminal cancer diagnosis into a public conversation about choices at the end of life, died Aug. 4. She was 54. Brandt’s death was announced on social media by her wife and partner of 18
Katherine Ellison Q&A – Psychologist Vicki Helgeson knowablemagazine.org What helps some people diagnosed with cancer, heart disease or diabetes stay relatively happy and healthy, while others are devastated? Psychologist Vicki Helgeson explains the traits and mindsets that can make the difference. People everywhere are living longer than ever.
Press Release: Medianet Myeloma New Zealand is today calling on Pharmac to make good on their proposal to widen access to blood cancer treatment lenalidomide (Revlimid) from April this year, allowing eligible patients access the subsidised drug earlier in their course of treatment. As one of several groups that marched
Press Release: ACT party “More than a year after new vaping legislation was promised, and with the school year rapidly approaching, there’s still no sign of Labour’s vaping legislation”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour announced plans to regulate vaping way back in November 2018. More than a
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician popularity tracking
The dreadful Australian bushfires have recently demonstrated how dangerous Green policies can be. Hopefully, this will result in a review of some of their most dangerous policies, but in the meantime, their zeal and stupidity still raises its head in many places. In the last week, it has been announced
Christina Francis, MD Donna Harrison, MD A study just published in the green journal (Journal of the American College of OB/GYN’s) was terminated early due to supposed safety concerns. This study was aimed at examining the efficacy and safety of a now well-used protocol for abortion pill rescue
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Political correctness recently took a dangerous turn in the United Kingdom when the North Bristol National Health Service Trust announced that hospital patients who use offensive, racist, or sexist language will cease receiving medical care as soon as it is safe to end their treatment. The
Dee J. Hall WisconsinWatch.org THE CANNABIS QUESTION In the spring, 12 University of Wisconsin-Madison students in my investigative reporting class set out to explore what marijuana legalization would mean to Wisconsin. I came up with the idea in the fall of 2018, thinking legalization was a sleepy topic. Boy,
PA Pundits – International James M. Taylor is an American lawyer, senior fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute and a CFACT contributor. James Taylor is a keen analyst of science and public policy and a competition level poker player. The same wind turbines that are causing reports
Press Release: Mesh Down Under Tangible Concrete Commitments… Where Are They? The use of surgical mesh for medical procedures has come under increasing scrutiny around the world because of high complication rates and problems with patient safety. Consumer advocacy group Mesh Down Under has been lobbying since 2012 for practical
Judith Graham Kaiser Health News December 12, 2019 It was a promise Matt Perrin wasn’t able to keep. “I’ll never take away your independence,” he’d told his mother, Rosemary, then 71, who lived alone on Cape Cod, Mass., in a much-loved cottage. That was before Rosemary started
Parents in Finland have lost custody of their 15-year-old daughter. For the state to take away their parental rights you would think that it must have been for something very serious. You would think that they must have been acting in a seriously abusive way that was endangering their child’
Katherine Gibney, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity The pacific island nation of Samoa has been making headlines over the past month due to a significant measles outbreak. At last count, 4,995 measles cases had been recorded, and 72 people, mostly young children, had died. The actual
Last year and this year a very hard lesson was hammered home to me. Bad things can happen out of the blue no matter how old or young you are and if you are not prepared you are in for a world of hurt. October last year when Cam lay
