Category: medical

The Neuroscience of Near-Death Experiences

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological and psychological factors. Robert Mays, who has studied near-death experiences (NDEs) for some 30 years, looked at some of these factors during a talk at the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) 2014 Conference in Newport…


The Profound Near-Death Experience of a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor

Tienke Klein’s health remained poor after she was released from a Nazi concentration camp. After a long recovery from the trauma she’d endured, she finally reached the point of not needing to visit her doctor regularly. Then she was hit by a car while bicycling. The experience would release her from the prison camp she’d…


The Medicine Seller

This film is only available in North America and Europe because of territorial licensing. A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system. He is totally stressed and Under pressure by the company he represents. “Two rats are closed in a cage. They are both…


[Premiering at 7:30PM] The State Can Abduct Children Through CPS ‘Medical Kidnapping’: Rep. Tammy Nichols

A recent case in Idaho is raising alarms over the government’s ability to take children from parents using what’s being called “medical kidnapping” by Child Protective Services (CPS). State Rep. Tammy Nichols, a Republican, says that it contains possible legal issues since normal protections under the law are being reversed. Nichols said, “You know, that’s what…


The State Can Abduct Children Through CPS ‘Medical Kidnapping’: Rep. Tammy Nichols

A recent case in Idaho is raising alarms over the government’s ability to take children from parents using what’s being called “medical kidnapping” by Child Protective Services (CPS). State Rep. Tammy Nichols, a Republican, says that it contains possible legal issues since normal protections under the law are being reversed. Nichols said, “You know, that’s what…


‘Time to Wake Up’: Calls Grow for Medical Community to Break Silence on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

Those carving out organs from living innocents with their scalpels aren’t the only ones complicit in the crime of forced organ harvesting. Silence amounts to complicity, too. That was one of the arguments raised at a March 23 virtual roundtable held on the sidelines of a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting, where a panel consisting…


Pilot of Crashed Medical Helicopter Released From Hospital

PHILADELPHIA—The pilot of a medical helicopter that crash-landed without loss of life next to a church in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia last week expressed gratitude to his crew and first responders as he was released from a hospital Sunday. Danial Moore was wheeled out of the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center emergency room Sunday…


6 Things To Know When Selecting a Complementary Health Practitioner

If you’re looking for a complementary health practitioner to help treat a medical problem, it is important to be as careful and thorough in your search as you are when looking for conventional care. Here are some tips to help you in your search: If you need names of practitioners in your area, first check…


UK Calls for Tackling Alleged ‘Racial Bias’ in Medical Devices

The UK on Sunday called on the United States and other “like-minded countries” to tackle alleged biases in medical devices, such as oximeters that give less accurate readings on darker skins, which may have contributed to the higher COVID-19 mortality rate in ethnic minorities. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid said he…


Hundreds of Thai Medical Workers Infected Despite Sinovac Vaccinations

BANGKOK— Thailand’s health ministry said on Sunday more than 600 medical workers who received two doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine have been infected with COVID-19, as authorities weigh giving booster doses to raise immunity. Of the 677,348 medical personnel who received two doses of Sinovac, 618 became infected, health ministry data from April to July…