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...early. More recently, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History redated the skeletal remains of an individual dubbed Arlington Springs Woman, found on another of the Channel Islands, pushing her age back to about 11,000 years B.P. Farther south, on Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California, U.C. at Riverside researchers found shell middens - heaps of kitchen waste, essentially - and other materials that date back to the same period as Daisy Cave. Down in the Andes, researchers have found coastal sites with shell middens dating to about 10,500 years...
...Nevertheless, these clinics are once ?again embroiled in controversy with the death of Coretta Scott King at the Hospital Santa Monica, an alternative treatment facility in Baja, Mexico. Why would someone with access to the world?s best health care move across the continent and then outside of U.S. territory for medical attention? On Friday, Mexican authorities, after inspecting the facility after the death of Mrs. King from complications of ovarian cancer, shut down the Hospital Santa Monica, citing a number of what they described as unauthorized procedures. No exact count of American patients in Mexican clinics exists...
...would be evaluated so that Americans could know what worked and what didn?t. To this point, I?m not aware that the office has given us those answers.? With costs ranging between $3,000 and $20,000 - depending on a patient?s length of stay - many wonder if Baja?s alternative treatments only cause more pain. (A significant number of these clinics have U.S. citizens on their staff or working behind the scenes. Mexican law forbids non-citizens from owning or operating the facilities...
...Cancer Control Society, based in Pasadena, California, organizes tours of Baja clinics and defends their efficacy. ?There are approximately two dozen alternative medical clinics in the Tijuana area,? says Frank Cousineau, the society?s vice president. ?The worst one there is better than the best one in the U.S. ?I?ve been to probably 20 or so clinics and the ones that I?ve seen are all safe. I won?t say that we never get complaints over things like money but the overwhelming majority tell us they were treated very, very well.? As for Hospital Santa Monica, he says...
...Mexican officials have tried to monitor both licensed and unlicensed clinics in the past without much success. In 2001, Baja regulators tried to shut down at least a dozen clinics. Investigators were hindered by a shortage of investigators and by patients who didn?t know how to properly fill out claims, or simply refused to. Critics say corruption also plays a part. ?A few years ago a Mexican official shut down about 20 of these clinics,? says Quackwatch.org chairman Dr. Stephen Barrett. A retired psychiatrist, Barrett has no faith in Baja?s clinics. ?After the shut down, the government changed...