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Whither Nuremberg?: Medicine's Continuing Nazi Heritage
Post Date: 2010-07-06 21:12:49 by Original_Intent
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Whither Nuremberg?: Medicine's Continuing Nazi Heritage William E. Seidelman, M.D. * * At the time of publication WES was Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto and Medical Director, HIV Ambulatory Program, The Wellesley Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Copyright 1995 Medicine and Global Survival Abstract The medical crimes of the Hitler regime are commonly perceived to have been committed by a few demonic physicians working in isolation from the mainstream of the German medicine. The success of this myth has imperiled the value system of medicine today. The World Medical Association (WMA), established to address the ethical challenges ...
Why morning people rule the world
Post Date: 2010-07-05 13:07:31 by Jethro Tull
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Why morning people rule the world Philip Delves Broughton 05.07.10 adverts.addToArray("sky", "120x600,160x600"); We are all morning or evening people. Scientists have established that our genes dictate around half of what they call our “chronotypes” — our natural preference for certain times of the day. Evolution has produced a range of humans capable of being alert to danger at every hour of the day. Our experience confirms these findings. We all know people who love to be at work bright and early, with a cup of coffee to hand and decisions to make, ...
Clemency for Wall Street Criminals, Prison for the Powerless
Post Date: 2010-07-02 06:48:12 by Ada
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"Who the hell are these people?" "I don't know. I used to say they were the same ones we've always had to deal with. Same ones my granddaddy had to deal with. Back then they was russlin' cattle. Now they're running dope. I ain't sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I don't know what to do about 'em even. If you killed 'em all they'd have to build an annex on to hell." Sheriff Bell ponders the bloody handiwork of a high-echelon criminal syndicate in Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men. Johnny Gaskins of Raleigh, North Carolina faces a 30-year prison term – an effective life sentence – for the ...
Doubts Grow In Whistle-blower "Suicide"
Post Date: 2010-07-01 06:07:23 by Ada
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New revelations in the suspicious “suicide” death of whistle-blower Dr. David Kelly point even more strongly to the possibility of murder and a subsequent cover-up, according to an explosive investigation by the British newspaper Daily Mail. David Kelly served as a United Nations weapons-of-mass-destruction inspector in Iraq and as a scientist for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense. He was widely considered the world’s foremost expert in chemical and biological weapons, even serving as a proof reader on the British government’s intelligence report about Iraqi WMDs. He disagreed with some of the claims and told his superiors, but was ignored. Seven years ago, ...
W.Va. Extends Containment Area For Wasting Disease
Post Date: 2010-07-01 05:31:35 by HOUNDDAWG
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Romney, W.Va. (AP) -- All of Hampshire County is now designated as a chronic wasting disease containment area. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources said Monday that 12 deer tested in the county in the spring tested positive for the disease. Another 15 deer killed during the fall 2009 hunting season also tested positive. Chronic wasting disease affects the brains and nervous systems of deer and elk. A total 74 deer have tested positive for the disease since the first case was confirmed in 2005. All the cases have been in Hampshire County.
Poster Comment:In a word, "UGH!" My state changed the law to allow for the baiting of deer on private land a few years back. ...
Kangaroos being poisoned by fluoride
Post Date: 2010-06-30 15:39:40 by Horse
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Hundreds of kangaroos have been euthanized due to acute fluoride poisoning in the Australian state of Victoria, the country's Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has announced. The poisonings appear to be occurring due to emissions of fluoride from the Alcoa aluminum smelter at Portland and the Austral Bricks factory at Craigieburn, the state's first and second biggest emitters of fluoride dust, respectively. According to Bruce Dawson of the EPA, the toxic chemical is being absorbed by nearby plants that kangaroos and other animals forage on. The animals may also be breathing in the chemical directly. The levels of fluoride being emitted by Alcoa and Austral are fully legal ...
At trial, Noriega claims Panama drug money a US-run ‘imaginary banking scheme’
Post Date: 2010-06-30 06:50:14 by Ada
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At trial, Noriega claims Panama drug money a US run imaginary banking schemePanama's ex-dictator Manuel Noriega on Tuesday dismissed charges of laundering drug money as an "imaginary banking scheme" concocted by the United States as he took the stand in a French court. The 76-year-old general denied taking payments from Colombian drug lords in the 1980s and told a Paris courtroom that cash deposits transferred to French banks came from his legitimate businesses and the CIA. "I say with much humility and respect that this is an imaginary banking scheme," Noriega told the court in Spanish through his interpreter on the second day of his trial. "I will have the ...
The 50 Fattiest Foods in the States [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-29 20:31:09 by James Deffenbach
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Traditional American fare—just like the American waistline—is looking more than a little pudgy these days. Even though some states enjoy healthier reputations than others (Yes, Colorado, we mean you), no state is completely guilt-free when it comes to dishes with huge portion sizes, super-high calorie counts, or sky-high fat content. So if you want to sample some of these regional favorites on your next road trip, your best bet may be to minimize your portion size. Alabama: Bacon-wrapped meatloaf With the second-highest obesity rate in the country—behind only neighboring Mississippi—you’d expect to find some fattening culprits in the deep-fried-bacon-loving ...
New England Journal of Medicine: Blindness Reversed in Dozens of Patients By Adult—Not Embryonic—Stem Cell Therapy
Post Date: 2010-06-28 21:12:29 by gengis gandhi
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New England Journal of Medicine: Blindness Reversed in Dozens of Patients By Adult—Not Embryonic—Stem Cell Therapy Stem Cells Reverse Blindness Caused by Burns Wednesday, June 23, 2010 By Alicia Chang, Associated Press This image from an Italian study published online Wednesday, June 23, 2010 by the New England Journal of Medicine shows the eyes of three patients with alkali burns before and after successful stem cell transplants. Dozens of people blinded or injured by chemical burns had their sight restored by transplants of stem cells from their own bodies--a stunning success for the growing cell therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday. (AP Photo/New England ...
Mystery of the Appendix
Post Date: 2010-06-25 19:31:17 by James Deffenbach
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Tucson - Appendicitis is the most common reason for emergency general surgery, but what causes the appendix to inflame is a medical mystery. For more than a hundred years, it's been the routine medical treatment: the appendix gets inflamed, remove it. That practice has never been challenged until now. Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas questions whether emergency surgery is really necessary. "We have no idea what causes appendicitis. We have no idea why one morning, you might wake up and get appendicitis or not," said Dr. Edward Livingston. The surgeon got curious about this common disease after operating on a patient with a ruptured appendix. "He ...
Utilization of Placebo Rat Poison in Clinical Trials: Raising the Bar from Sugar Pill to Rodenticide
Post Date: 2010-06-25 15:57:06 by Original_Intent
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Utilization of Placebo Rat Poison in Clinical Trials: Raising the Bar from Sugar Pill to Rodenticide Methodius Isaac Bonkers, M.D., Principal Investigator Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research bonkersinstitute.org Before obtaining FDA approval to market a new drug, the manufacturer must provide evidence demonstrating not only safety, but also efficacy and superiority to placebo. Such evidence is commonly acquired through randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials, long considered the gold standard in biomedical research. This article will focus on the use of placebos in controlled trials and offer a modest proposal for improving their clinical utility and ...
medical pots problems for parents
Post Date: 2010-06-21 12:53:58 by freepatriot32
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BP scaring the crap out of people: dispersants having laxative effect on Floridians
Post Date: 2010-06-17 17:02:56 by Itistoolate
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BP scaring the crap out of people: dispersants having laxative effect on Floridians by Monica Davis Contributed by muckracker1 (Editor) Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:44 View: Editor's biography | More stories This story has been viewed 373 times (373 times in the past 24 hours, 20 times in the past hour) 2 people on this page right now According to a blog poster on a Middle Eastern website, ingredients in a dispersant chemical used to break up the BP oil gusher are allegedly causing massive outbreaks of diarrhea in a Florida. The poster says that an outbreak of diarrhea is allegedly causing so many cases of diarrhea in Miami, entire neighborhoods smell like a giant outhouse. ...
Diabetes symptoms from electropollution
Post Date: 2010-06-11 07:44:39 by Tatarewicz
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(NaturalNews) Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit "dirty" electricity. Type-3 diabetics actually experience spikes in blood sugar and an increased heart rate when exposed to electrical pollution ("electropollution") from things like computers, televisions, cordless and mobile phones, and even compact fluorescent light bulbs. Dr. Magda Havas, a PhD from Trent University in Canada, recently published the results of a study she conducted on the relationship ...
hospital
Post Date: 2010-06-08 13:16:28 by Arete
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Hello to all-- Richard asked me to tell you that he is out of circulation for awhile-- he broke his leg and is in the hospital, moved to rehab today. The leg shattered when he fell. He has a rod and a few screws in it. He'll be in touch when he's home and feels better I'm sure. Deb
Hospitals to face financial penalties for readmissions
Post Date: 2010-06-08 05:02:45 by scrapper2
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Hospitals will face financial penalties if patients are readmitted as an emergency within 30 days of being discharged, under government plans. The scheme will be unveiled on Tuesday by Andrew Lansley, in his first major speech as the new health secretary. Hospitals in England will be paid for initial treatment but not paid again if a patient is brought back in with a related problem, he will say. It has been argued that patients are being discharged early to free up beds. The Conservatives have said cuts to the number of hospital beds under Labour put pressure on NHS staff to discharge people without support. Between 1998-99 and 2007-08, the number of emergency readmissions in England ...
A 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl reportedly conducted a self-abortion using a lead pencil after her much-older boyfriend subjected her to statutory rape. The 30-year-old boyfriend, officials say, then buried the body of the dead unborn child after the abortion was completed.
Post Date: 2010-06-07 19:59:39 by Mind_Virus
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Pennsylvania Teenager Does Self-Abortion, Older Boyfriend Buries Baby's Body by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor June 7, 2010 Lehigh, PA (LifeNews.com) -- A 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl reportedly conducted a self-abortion using a lead pencil after her much-old boyfriend subjected her to statutory rape. The 30-year-old boyfriend, officials say, then buried the body of the dead unborn child after the abortion was completed. Pennsylvania State Police told the Express Times newspaper that staff at the Lehigh Valley Hospital informed them Sunday morning of the incident. Hospital officials say signs indicate the unnamed Polk Township girl was pregnant and told them she became very ill ...
Rise in Suicides of Middle-Aged Is Continuing
Post Date: 2010-06-07 16:12:07 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Rise in Suicides of Middle-Aged Is Continuing By PATRICIA COHEN Published: June 4, 2010 For the second year in a row, middle-aged adults have registered the highest suicide rate in the country, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Historically, the eldest segment of the population, those 80 and older, have had the highest rates of suicide in the United States. Starting in 2006, however, the suicide rate among men and women between the ages of 45 and 54 was the highest of any age group. The most recent figures released, from 2007, reveal that the 45-to-54 age group had a suicide rate of 17.6 per every 100,000 people. The second highest was the 75-to-84 age ...
Green tea extract may slow leukaemia, researchers have suggested
Post Date: 2010-06-05 16:08:36 by gengis gandhi
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Green tea extract may slow leukaemia, researchers have suggested An extract taken from green tea reduces cancer cells in the blood of patients with a form of leukaemia and may slow progression of the disease, a conference will hear. By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 8:15AM BST 05 Jun 2010 Green tea leaves Photo: ALAMY Researchers at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in America have found that patients in the early stages of the most common form of leukaemia may respond well to taken supplements of a green tea extract. The chemical, epigallocatechin galeate (EGCG), was found more than two thirds of 42 patients in the trial showed a significant reduction in the number of leukaemia cells ...
Mississippi Looks to Iran for Rural Health Care Model
Post Date: 2010-06-03 10:33:44 by AGAviator
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Scratch-poor towns in the Mississippi Delta once shared more in common with rural Iran — scarce medical supplies, inaccessible health care and high infant mortality rates — than with most of the U.S. Then things in Iran got better. Since the 1980s, rural Iranians have been able to seek treatment at health houses, informal sites set up in small communities as the first stop for medical care, rather than an emergency room. They're staffed by citizens, not doctors, and the focus is on preventive care. Infant deaths have dropped from 200 per 1,000 births to 26. With the Delta's rate 10 times worse than Iran's, a group of volunteers is traveling to Iran this month to get ...
BREAKING 12 dead in U.K. shooting rampage
Post Date: 2010-06-02 13:05:22 by freepatriot32
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LONDON - A taxi driver went on a shooting spree across rural northwestern England on Wednesday, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before shooting himself, police said. Officers found a body believed to be that of suspect Derrick Bird, 52, in woodland near the Lake District village of Boot, Cumbria police said. A gun was found alongside the body. The rampage in the county of Cumbria is the deadliest mass shooting since 1996 in a country where gun ownership is tightly restricted. Police Deputy Chief Constable Stuart Hyde says the rampage "has shocked the people of Cumbria and around the country to the core." Police said the shootings occurred in the small town of ...
Turtle Knows Something You Don't
Post Date: 2010-06-01 12:06:37 by Turtle
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I work with old people, crippled people, retarded people. Half the people in nursing homes have Alzheimer's. A lot of people with Alzheimer's are still are home, fortunately. Forty years ago there were half-a-million people with Alzheimer's. Today there are five million, and it's growing every day. We're living longer, but it cannot explain this. The cost of caring for these people is astronomical. These people can live anywhere from two twenty years with this diseaase. In stage three, they become incontinent, and can't even feed themselves. Afer a while workers can't even feed them, they are asleep all the time, and end up with a feeding tube. Then ...
Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
Post Date: 2010-05-31 21:39:17 by Phant2000
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, kicked off a fierce battle with drug companies and pharmacies when it said earlier this year it would halve generic drug prices and eliminate "incentive fees" to generic drug manufacturers. British Columbia is replacing block grants to hospitals with fee-for-procedure payments and Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit -- an idea that critics ...
Oilpocalypse Now Take I [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-30 15:46:52 by Original_Intent
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This is really the bottom line. We have an event in the Gulf which has now stretched on for more than 5 weeks which is emptying toxins into the ocean and the atmosphere at a cataclysmic rate. In looking at the problem I am trying to anticipate its likely effects and consequences. Looking at the Gulf Oil catastrophe how does that affect the planetary system? Our oceans have been called the cradle of life and much of life on earth remains dependent on those oceans. If you disrupt the ocean system you disrupt, indirectly, life everywhere. The gushers have not yet been stoppered and there is currently no realistic prospect that they will be anytime soon. Obama is obviously bought and paid for ...
It Is Raining Oil In Florida
Post Date: 2010-05-29 17:35:50 by Itistoolate
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It Is Raining Oil In Florida From Eve 5-28-10 Making this quick, don't feel well. About 4:15pm or so eastern, coming back from Tampa, Florida north on Veteran's Expressway...about 7 miles perhaps from SR 54...it sprinkled some gray watery and solid black oil on my car. Thought it was bugs, but so fast did not make sense and windshield wipers just smeared it. Got out of car at store and looked on the paint and solid black dots on my car...I touch? huh? it's wet? it's OIL!!!!! I had several folks verify it before I sprayed it off and it came off easier than the few love bugs. Two hours later still wet like OIL! nope, not water, smell it, OIL!!! Anyone on Gulf try not to ...
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