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Kaiser Permanente is contacting 960 mothers whose babies may have been exposed to a health care worker in San Francisco who has an active case of tuberculosis. The worker was assigned to the postpartum unit in the maternity ward of Kaiser's San Francisco Medical Center to care for mothers and infants. Kaiser officials say the infection risk for patients is very low, but testing will be provided along with treatment if necessary.

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

The United States, with its claims of exceptionalism, is usually thought of as free of historical analogies. But comparisons with the fate of earlier empires are becoming more common. I have recently been struck by an analogy from German history: the disaster of German leadership during the first world war, epitomised by Kaiser Wilhelm II. In 1888, at just 29, Wilhelm became the leader of a country on the cusp of European mastery. Wilhelm flaunted his absolute power, believing it to be divinely ordained, was contemptuous of parliament, revelled in the trappings of power, and delighted in uniforms. He was...

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. -- The home of a woman who refused to leave her hospital bed will be auctioned Tuesday to pay for the cost of her 14-month stay. Kaiser Permanente patient Sarah Nome racked up a $1.4 million dollar bill when she refused to leave her hospital bed for more than a year, arguing she couldn't walk and it was the health-maintenance organization's responsibility to find her an appropriate care facility. She'd been admitted after she broke both her legs while living alone. A Marin County judge eventually put the now 84-year-old woman in the county's care. She was...

Brave New World - Muslim Doctor Jihad in America Resumes: Muslim Doc Kills Patient for Organs By Debbie Schlussel www.debbieschlussel.com July 31, 2007 Remember "Kurtlar Vadisi - Irak," the Turkish state-sponsored anti-American, anti-Semitic movie that alleges a new blood libel of Jewish, American, and U.S. Army doctors killing Muslims to harvest their organs? It starred Gary Busey as the Jewish-American Army doctor who killed Muslims for organs for Jews in New York, Tel Aviv, and London. Both I and my father, H.L. Schlussel, MD, wrote about it on this site. Well, guess what? In real life, guess who's actually murdering...

(02-14) 12:06 PST OAKLAND -- Kaiser Permanente said today it has launched a multi-year study of the genetics and lifestyle factors that give rise to such common diseases as diabetes, heart failure and Alzheimer's. Researchers said it could turn out to be the largest study of its kind, drawing potentially hundreds of thousands of participants from the health medical organization's 3.3 million Northern California membership and lasting at least 50 years.

Why does The Washington Post willingly publish "classified" information affecting national security? Should Post journalists and others who reveal the government's secrets be subject to criminal prosecution for doing so? These questions, raised with new urgency of late, deserve careful answers. There's a reason why we're hearing these questions now. We live in tense times. The country is anxious about war and terrorism. Washington is more sharply divided along ideological lines than at any time since I came to work at The Post in 1963. The Bush administration has unabashedly sought to enhance the powers of the executive branch as...

CBS) LOS ANGELES Letters carrying identity theft warnings have been sent to 25,000 patients who have been treated at Kaiser Permanente’s South Bay Medical Center, after two contract employees were arrested on suspicion of stealing their personal information. Pamela Moore of Los Angeles and LaShonda McKenzie of Hawthorne, both 27, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing personal information from patients and ringing up thousands of dollars in credit card charges. Moore and Mckenzie worked for QuestNine Inc., a photocopying company in San Bernardino. Kaiser hired the company to provide workers to copy patients’ medical records. The women also handled...

WATERLOO — The state Commission of Investigation will be asked to look into allegations of inappropriate activities by Democrats prior to the Nov. 8 general election. The Seneca County Board of Supervisors’ Government Operations & Technology Committee voted 4-1 Tuesday to consider four specific points Committee Chairman David Kaiser of Romulus brought up Nov. 7, when the measure was tabled because it was the night before the election and two of the committee’s members were facing a challenge. Kaiser, a Republican, alleges county property may have been illegally used for political purposes. He specifically cites the listing of Democratic Elections...

As regular readers in this column know, my reporting senior and lawful sovereign is His Imperial Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II. When I finally report in to that great Oberste Heeresleitung in the sky, I expect to do so as the Kaiser’s last soldier. Why? Well, beyond Bestimmung, the unhappy fact is that Western civilization’s last chance of survival was probably a victory by the Central Powers in World War I. Their defeat let all the poisons of the French Revolution loose unchecked, which is the main reason that we now live in a moral and cultural cesspool.

Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Today, RNC chair Ken Mehlman will apologize for the Republicans' divisive, racist Southern strategy: "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong." Even in what is fast becoming the sorriest year in American politics, Mehlman's apology may be the most galling. If not for its Southern strategy, Ken Mehlman would be stuck in Baltimore and the modern Republican party simply would not exist. From...

When liberals ask me why they should oppose physician-assisted suicide (PAS), I always reply, "I can summarize a big reason in just three letters: HMO." That always raises an eyebrow. Liberals hate HMOs. Then I ask, "Do you know how much it costs for the drugs used in an assisted suicide?" They usually shake their heads, no. Answering my own question, I say, "About forty bucks," adding, "Since HMOs make money by cutting costs, and it could cost $40,000 (or more) to provide suicidal patients with proper care so that they don't want assisted suicide, the economic force of gravity...

An 82-year-old woman who has been squatting at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center for more than a year was removed from the hospital Tuesday almost immediately after a Marin County judge authorized it. Sarah Nome, who has refused all efforts by Kaiser to get rid of her, was whisked by ambulance shortly after 5 p.m. to the Lafayette Convalescent Hospital in Lafayette. Superior Court Commissioner Harvey Goldfine placed Nome under the temporary conservatorship of Marin County's public guardian, Michele McCabe. The ruling gave McCabe legal authority not only to have Nome forcibly removed from Kaiser, but also to apply...

Surprise! It’s an HMO!Want the hottest, best-priced doctors’ group around? Believe it or not, it could be your local Kaiser. As A Kaiser baby myself, I've always had a soft spot for the place. And as a medical writer, I've long been impressed by the specialists I've interviewed there, with their obvious social conscience and allegiance to medical research. Lately, the low-cost HMO—a real West Coast original—has even earned excellent scores in those newish "quality of care" ratings, and the New York Times singled it out in a recent piece headlined "Is Kaiser the Future of American Health Care?" But...

Bono was speaking at a Kaiser sponsored event on AIDS and was very complimentary of the current administration - as well as venerating "Middle America" for having a 'moral compass'... 'Bout fell outta my chair!

A Namibian tribe that came close to being exterminated by Germany's colonial forces nearly a century ago is suing the German government and two companies for £2.6 billion. The Herero People's Reparation Corporation, based in Washington, claims that the Deutsche Bank and a shipping company, the Woermann Line, now known as SAFmarine, assisted the Berlin government "to relentlessly pursue the enslavement and genocidal destruction" of the Herero people between 1904 and 1907. Germany had colonised the territory of South West Africa, a parched, sprawling land made up largely of two deserts and rocks, in 1884, encouraging white settlers to farm...

Germany is to rebuild the vast Prussian royal palace in Berlin which was home to Kaiser Bill and his predecessors as it tries to revive the crisis-ridden city after its rebirth as the capital. Despite vehement resistance to the plans for a 600-room Baroque palace, which critics are calling "Prussian Disneyland", the German parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to press ahead with the project. The 18th-century Berliner Stadtschloss will be recreated on its original site. The communists tore down its bombed-out remains to build East Germany's parliament building, the so-called People's Palace. Now the crumbling graffiti-covered People's Palace is...

<p>The HMO's experts say it shouldn't pay for what it calls risky, unproven procedure. An Amador County couple whose three youngsters suffer from a fatal genetic disorder have lost the first round of their battle to obtain a costly treatment that could save two of the children.</p>

Kaiser planned naval attack on New York Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II planned attacks on New York long before the First World War began. Research undertaken at the military archive in Freiburg shows preparation for a naval strike against the US east coast began in 1897. New York and Boston were supposed to be the main targets. Documents reveal high-ranking navy officials wanted to build a German army base on Cape Cod but the Kaiser thought Cuba would be a better place. An alternative scenario suggested setting up a base on Puerto Rico and winning control of the Panama canal from...