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Health Canada's Loyalties Questionable
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice, after taking a drink from the bottle labelled Drink Me in Lewis Carroll's book, Alice in Wonderland. She was detaching from reality,...
Health Action Magazine Summer 2008 - 3K

Canadian Bill C-51 May Pave Way for CODEX
Media Release 50 international scientists, physicians and associated health practitioners are calling upon Canada's Health Minister to reconsider its plan to amend the...
HANS e-News - May 1, 2008 - 3K

Weight of Undue Industry Influence
Health and safety regulations are supposed to be made based on up-to-date, solid, concrete, scientifically-based facts. Instead, they appear to be made from solid concrete...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2007 - 4K

Changing the Healthcare System: Common Sense Applies
Before you move into a new home, what do you do to avoid unexpected risks? You'd probably call a home inspector to check it out to make sure there are no nasty surprises-mold...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2007 - 6K

The Verdict is In! Canada's Healthcare is Broken
I have long been a great fan of HANS because they speak for people, not interests. This is not only important, it's as rare as hens' teeth, as my Mom used to say. The...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2007 - 5K

Healthcare, or Wealth Care?
Which one-healthcare or wealth care-will we allow to be the outcome of the latest "Conversation on Health?" BC governments have had studies, commissions, and task forces on...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2007 - 4K

Education = Prevention = Health
I believe any reasonable person would agree that prevention is a good thing. I believe that any reasonable person would agree that prevention leads to better health. And, I...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2007 - 6K

Emergency Department Crowding
It is 10 a.m. on a typical Monday at St. Paul's Emergency Department - all the stretchers are already full. The ambulances are filling the driveway, the line-up at triage is...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2007 - 6K

Integration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
What happens when you put a world-famous environmentalist, a renowned neuroscientist, and a consummate holistic practitioner together on the same stage, and ask them to speak...
Health Action Magazine Summer 2007 - 3K

Why is HANS Here?
Many people over the years have asked me why Health Action Network Society is here. As only one of the original Directors, my reasons for staying the course for 28 years may...
Health Action Magazine Summer 2007 - 3K

Take Cancer Stats With a Grain of Salt
It is slowly dawning on many of us that aggressive diagnostic testing to detect early cancers, and the often toxic, harmful treatment of cancers once they're diagnosed, are...
Health Action Magazine Spring 2008 - 4K

The Cost of Drug Therapies
Treating disease with drugs poses potentially serious problems. In addition to the questionable selling practices of pharmaceutical companies, there are the realities of...
Health Action Magazine Fall 2007 - 3K

The Cancer Bureaucracy: How Real Cures are Suppressed
Barry Lynes, author of The Healing of Cancer and The Cancer Cure That Worked, spoke to an audience at Health Action '92, about the importance of creating new laws which...
Health Action Magazine, Winter 1993 - 6K

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