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Healer to the stars Mosaraf Ali is facing a High Court lawsuit from a former patient who claims that the treatment he received at Ali's clinic resulted in the amputation of both legs. Despite having helped Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, to stop smoking, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson to quit cocaine and Geri Halliwell to lose weight, Ali's credentials are under question. Ali combines Eastern therapies with more traditional forms of healthcare. He uses the title "doctor" but the General Medical Council (GMC), which registers doctors in this country, claims he isn't registered with it and says it's a courtesy title, which anyone with medical or academic qualifications - which Ali has - can use. This isn't the only recent scandal regarding alternative or complementary medicine. Last month £800,000 was awarded to Dawn Page who suffered brain injury following a "six pints of water a day" detox diet on the advice of a nutritional therapist. And earlier in the year PhD student Ling Wang died … [Read more...] about Stay safe if you go alternative

On the morning of Oct. 5, President Bush and his education secretary, Margaret Spellings, paid a visit, along with camera crews from CNN and Fox News, to Friendship-Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter public school in Washington. The president dropped in on two classrooms, where he asked the students, almost all of whom were African-American and poor, if they were planning to go to college. Every hand went up. “See, that’s a good sign,” the president told the students when they assembled later in the gym. “Going to college is an important goal for the future of the United States of America.” He singled out one student, a black eighth grader named Asia Goode, who came to Woodridge four years earlier reading “well below grade level.” But things had changed for Asia, according to the president. “Her teachers stayed after school to tutor her, and she caught up,” he said. “Asia is now an honors student. She loves reading, and she sings in the school choir.” Bush’s Woodridge … [Read more...] about What It Takes to Make a Student

The government benefits began their existence as objects of partisan rancor and harsh criticism. Eventually, though, they became so popular that politicians of both parties promised to protect them. It was true of Social Security and Medicare. And now the pattern seems to be repeating itself with Obamacare. Consider what has happened recently in North Carolina: Only a decade after the state’s Republican politicians described the law as dangerous and refused to sign up for its expansion of Medicaid, Republicans and Democrats came together to pass such an expansion . The Republican-controlled House in North Carolina passed the bill 87 to 24, while the Republican-controlled Senate passed it 44 to 2. “Wow, have things changed,” Jonathan Cohn wrote in a HuffPost piece explaining how the turnabout happened . Obamacare — the country’s largest expansion of health insurance since Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 — is still not as widely accepted as those programs. North Carolina … [Read more...] about Obamacare Keeps Winning

The great hope of every health care reformer is that better care will mean cheaper care. The three leading Democrats running for president have all put this idea at the center of their plans. Rudy Giuliani, the first Republican candidate to offer some health care ideas, has talked about it, too. The theory goes like this: By practicing preventive medicine, doctors can keep many people from getting sick in the first place. Those who do end up with a chronic illness will be closely tracked so that fewer of them develop complications. These steps will result in less illness, which in turn will require less health care. With the savings, the country can then lower its medical bills or provide health insurance for the 40-odd million people who lack it — or maybe even both. As Hillary Clinton recently told The Atlantic, it’s possible to “save money and improve quality and cover everybody.” The would-be reformers have hit on something important here. The current health care system … [Read more...] about Free Lunch on Health? Think Again