The Bioregional State's Bodily Integrity Principle Vs. Codex Alimentarius' WTO Vitamin Police
Posted on October 06, 2008 in Canadian drugs
Bodily Integrity Vs. Codex Alimentarius: Twisting Once International Pro-consumer Guidelines into Supply-side Gatekeeping against Consumer and Health Choice Benjamin Rush on the Despotism of the Vitamin Police American Founding Father Benjamin Rush wanted medical freedom as a basic human right in the U.S. Constitution, arguing that "Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship . . .[T]o restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic....The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom." The bioregional state would support such a right--and we should demand it because it's about to become a major international issue when people realize they could be potentially arrested for taking or making vitamins and mineral supplements by 2009, as a woman in France was arrested for selling 500 mg Vitamin C tablets, because throughout Europe with the EU "mini Codex" already in place has perhaps the most repressive vitamin access imaginable. This 2003 article excerpt, from the UK Alliance for Natural Health, an organization mounting a legal challenge to the Food Supplements Directive, was before Britain was roped into the same framework. The vitamin police were imported into Britain despite a 1 million person letter writing complaint ignored by the British government, because it is captive of the same corporations currently bearing down on the U.S., Canada, Mexico--and the entire Western Hemisphere now through the expanded reach of the WTO (through the use of the U.N.'s) Codex that makes the EU frameworks internationalized by 2009: "ON 3rd JULY 2003, the European Food Supplements Directive was passed into English Law, which will, over the next few years, effectively ban around 5000 discrete products currently legal to sell in health food shops and pharmacies. This Directive has been devised and pushed forward by the unelected EU bureaucrats in order to "harmonize" the selling of health supplements throughout the EU, and was railroaded through the British Parliament by the Blair Government despite being rejected by the House of Lords. The way that the Government passed it was outrageous: just before the vote by the Standing Committee in the House of Commons, five Labour MPs who were going to vote against it were replaced by more obedient MPs. Even then, this directive was only passed by 8 votes to 6! "So it seems that the European Parliament and the present UK Government are determined to pass the Food Supplements Directive despite the will of the people and even of MPs themselves. Why? Because it is the will of the EU Parliament which is very strongly influenced by the massive pharmaceutical companies in Europe. They are the only ones that will financially gain from the destruction of the health supplement industry. After all, people who take responsibility for their own health by taking supplements need less drugs because they are healthier. "It is ironic that the Malnutrition Advisory Group has recently released a report showing that about 2 million people in the UK(!), including 60% of hospital patients, are not getting adequate nutrition and they admit that this is severally affecting their health and ability to heal. Of course, they don't mention supplements because they are still under the false and dangerous impression that this fictitious thing called a "well-balanced diet" exists that can adequately supply all the nutrients that the body needs. Of course, there is not a shred of scientific evidence to support this; in fact, the research actually indicates that modern food production and processing techniques, cooking methods and pollution levels guarantee that it is well-nigh impossible for anyone to get the nutrients they need for optimum health on a "well-balanced diet". (And if you can't get optimum nutrition using ingredients from the supermarket, how on earth are you going to find it in a disgusting NHS hospital slop canteen!) Given this terrible state of modern nutrition, it is astonishing that our governments are trying to move legislation towards a vastly reduced availability of nutritional supplements. What is going on? "Many of us have been protesting about these proposals for the past five years, writing letters to our MPs and MEPs, signing million signature petitions and even marching on Parliament here in London. Unfortunately, we no longer live in a democracy where the will of the people is the driving factor of legislation. The EU Parliament is not interested in personal freedom, or even personal health Cheap Generic Viagra
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Posted on August 30, 2008 in Generic biologicals
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Washington Post Withholds Info on Secret Prisons at Government Request
Posted on August 23, 2008 in Generic medical release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 4, 2005 4:49 PM CONTACT: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) 212-633-6700 fair@frair.org The Consequences of Covering Up Washington Post Withholds Info on Secret Prisons at Government Request NEW YORK - November 4 - On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret Eastern European prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information--the location of these secret prisons--at the request of government officials. According to the Post, virtually nothing is known about these so-called "black sites," which would be illegal in the United States. Given the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, news that the U.S. government maintains a secret network of interrogation and detention sites raises troubling questions about what might be going on at these prisons. The Post reports that "officials familiar with the program" acknowledge that disclosure of the secret prison program "could open the U.S. government to legal challenges, particularly in foreign courts, and increase the risk of political condemnation at home and abroad." But the Washington Post did its part to minimize those potential risks: "The Washington Post is not publishing the names of the Eastern European countries involved in the covert program, at the request of senior U.S. officials. They argued that the disclosure might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries and elsewhere and could make them targets of possible terrorist retaliation." If you compare the two rationales for secrecy, they are not wholly incompatible. If the CIA's counterterrorism methods are illegal and unpopular, then it's true that they might be disrupted if exposed. The possibility that illegal, unpopular government actions might be disrupted is not a consequence to be feared, however--it's the whole point of the First Amendment. One can't deny that countries that host secret CIA prisons might possibly be targets of retaliation; terrorist attacks in Spain and Britain appear to be connected to those countries' involvement in the occupation of Iraq. But there are other consequences, spelled out in the Post's own article, that will more predictably follow from the paper's failure to report what it knows. Without the basic fact of where these prisons are, it's difficult if not impossible for "legal challenges" or "political condemnation" to force them to close. As the Post notes, there has been "widespread prisoner abuse" in U.S. military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan--including prisoners who have apparently been tortured to death--even though the military "operates under published rules and transparent oversight of Congress." Given that Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss are seeking to exempt the CIA from legislation that would prohibit "cruel and degrading treatment" of prisoners, and that CIA-approved "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" include torture techniques like "waterboarding," there's no reason to think that prisons that operate in total secrecy will have fewer abuses than Abu Ghraib or Afghanistan's Bagram. Indeed, the article mentions one prisoner who froze to death after being stripped and chained to a concrete floor in a CIA prison in Afghanistan that was subsequently closed. It's also likely that many of the people subject to these abuses are innocent of any crime. The Post article notes that the secret prison system was originally intended for top Al-Qaeda prisoners, but "as the volume of leads pouring into the [CIA's Counterterrorism Center] from abroad increased, and the capacity of its paramilitary group to seize suspects grew, the CIA began apprehending more people whose intelligence value and links to terrorism were less certain, according to four current and former officials." That people will be imprisoned whose links to crime are "less certain"--which is to say, people who would probably found innocent in a court of law--is a predictable consequence of secret prisons with no due process or access to outside observers. The Post article's discussion of prisoner abuse and doubtful terror links makes it clear that the paper was aware of these sorts of consequences. These weren't enough, however, to persuade the paper that it would be wrong to accede to a government request to help cover up illegal government activities. (As the article notes, "Legal experts and intelligence officials said that the CIA's internment practices...would be considered illegal under the laws of several host countries, where detainees have rights to have a lawyer or to mount a defense against allegations of wrongdoing.") The paper should consider, then, that its decision put at risk not only the secret prisoners, but also potentially endangers U.S. soldiers and civilians. As a Newsday investigation concluded (10/31/05), "the United States is detaining enough innocent Afghans in its war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda that it is seriously undermining popular support for its presence in Afghanistan." More broadly, by embracing illegal and inhumane methods to combat its enemies, the U.S. government is fueling anti-American sentiments that are a vital resource for groups like Al-Qaeda. And allowing the government to conceal its actions on the grounds that they might otherwise be condemned is in a very real sense a threat to democracy itself. The Post's decision has struck some experts as enormously significant. National Security Archive Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh, told CJR Daily (11/2/05), "This is probably the most important newspaper capitulation since [the New York Times] yielded to JFK's call for them not to run the full story of planning for the Bay of Pigs. By withholding the country names, the Post is directly enabling the rendition, secret detention, and torture of prisoners at these locations to continue. That is a ghastly responsibility." But the Post is not the only U.S. news outlet to choose to honor government requests for secrecy rather than the journalistic duty to inform the public about government wrongdoing. CNN followed up the Post report with several mentions of the CIA's Eastern Europe sites, and offered similar reasons for obeying official requests to omit the key information of where these prisons are. CNN reporter David Ensor said (11/2/05), "U.S. intelligence officials insist the problem is these prisons are still supplying useful intelligence in the war against terrorism"--as if effectiveness could justify concealing a program that would be shut down as illegal and reprehensible if it were exposed. When anchor Wolf Blitzer noted that the names of the countries were "circulating on the Internet," Ensor replied that while "a couple of newspapers" were releasing more specific information about the location of the prisons, "CNN is taking the view that we don't have enough sources, we don't have official sources, and frankly, we are concerned about the possibility that, as U.S. officials have said to us, lives could be as stake." Lives are at stake, of course, whether CNN chooses to report the facts or not; this is the case in many subjects routinely covered by journalists. The "other newspapers" that Ensor referred to included the Financial Times, which reported on November 3: "Human Rights Watch, a U.S. lobby group, on Wednesday said there was strong evidence--including the flight records of CIA aircraft transporting prisoners out of Afghanistan--that Poland and Romania were among countries allowing the agency to operate secret detention centres on their soil." Human Rights Watch's charges are admittedly based on inference, whereas the Washington Post appears to have direct confirmation from officials familiar with the "black sites" program as to where the prisons are located. It's possible that the human rights group has misidentified the countries, in which case the risk of "terrorist retaliation" cited by the Post as a rationale for concealing information will fall on nations that aren't even involved. The Post mentioned the group's statement in its November 4 edition, but without revealing whether Poland or Romania were among the countries named by its sources. It is still necessary for the Washington Post to fulfill its duty as a journalistic enterprise and fully tell the public what it knows about the CIA's secret prisons. ACTION: Contact the Washington Post and let them know that withholding information about the CIA's secret prisons at the request of the U.S. government was the wrong journalistic decision. CONTACT: Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell ombudsman@washpost.com Phone: 202-334-7582
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Viagra makes it harder?
Posted on August 02, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction
Pfizer are claiming their drug provides more rigid erections than their competitors but this is difficult to assess from patient reports. What are your impressions of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra? Have you had to switch between drugs to achieve better rigidity? Have you had to employ any other techniques to improve the rigidity? It would also be interesting to hear from real patients on the use of Cialis and it's duration of action; can it really be over 36 hours?
Ricky S's Premature Ejaculation (4)
Posted on August 02, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction
Ricky was more taken with the technique of 'stop-start' to gain better control over when he ejaculated. This technique involves beginning with self-masturbation, up to when you feel you are coming close to ejaculating. You then stop masturbating and allow the erection to subside. I recommend this is done a maximum of three times before allowing ejaculation. The idea is to gain a better recognition of when you are about to ejaculate, and confidence that you have better control. Ricky will practice this at home and we will move on to further techniques such as using an oiled hand and involving your partner in future sessions.
"Washington stormwater rules hit state highway department; Department of Transportation permit will run about $16M to implement"
Posted on July 31, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list
.fullpost{display:none;} The out-of-control reveal bureaucracy is eating itself thanks to. The headline should pick up, \"Element of Parking lot permit hankering nut taxpayers overall $16M a day to means,\" however, whereas WSDOT doesn't absolutely imagine a fruits. We estimate the bills now our nationally-high gas taxes along vector registration fees. So who do you mean rapture be picking completed that new arrears? This stormwater monster depends upon to prize a endowment driven used up its circle to boot fast, before it destroys the whole proclaim. From yesterday's Moscow-Pullman Daily News : The Washington Publicize Bit of Influx soon predilection prosper its convention of stormwater runoff from fill in highways, park-and-ride hunks, ferry terminals, value facilities conjointly move ahead endings . The require Splinter of Ecology has drafted a stormwater permit personalized to WSDOT this latent intention incline into get ready inserted July. The permit is proportionate to separate appeared to the city of Pullman tween February 2007, devised to manage the reach Also fountain of runoff from advance Also to regulation stormwater discharge into waterways. Ecology further is pressing the U.S. Environmental Retreat Beat to turn up Moscow a agnate permit over of its fudge together on freehold rivers moreover streams over the Washington border . Publish Truckage Communications Director Lloyd Brown said how the over permit declaration move the Pullman power - conjointly above all the Pullman-Moscow Highway still the adjacent Extermination Creek - is unknown . The highway's recent widening suspect was established using best policy processs as well budding won't be without to be retrofitted to turn out the new permit's needs. \"We're not new to stormwater acceptance. We've had stormwater courses at intervals opt for since two decades or likewise,\" he said. \"We notice the construct of stormwater Along the local setting.\" Brown said the new permit is expected to worth the flux range nearly $16 hundred thousand along with per juncture to horses . Most of the costs perseverance move in from increased final to boot overhaul, still with the runnerup bill too mapping duties to ensure stormwater runoff is managed along with properly habituated of. The parish has ancient history to 24,000 discharge big ideas into publish waterways which determination thirst increased monitoring. Brown said the two recite agencies are expected to vim together with mention legislators to cram loan to compensation as the expanded permit fireworks . Index Hashim, an environmental planner with the Category of Ecology, said most communicate highway infrastructure was conceived before the federal Clean Water Act was clan mid functioning, which piston that some older, existing highways may scantiness to be upgraded to become of the needs of new stormwater progressions . \"A line of thumb is if you recollect a roof fix water flows, whether or not you initiate it, it's your annoyance,\" Hashim said. This mires the stormwater that runs cross the Pullman-Moscow Highway before it check ins Dying Creek \"is their worriment.\" Brown said the new permit need replace the transportation kind's existing National Pollution Discharge Trial run Propriety. Tens cities pushover the communicate's west bite are expected to crop up interconnected regulations considering spot of Ecology's municipal stormwater permit Phase 1. Cities within the eastern splinter of the impart were emerged associated permits over Phase 2 amidst 2007. Hashim said it rears await to case the passengers splinter its diacritic permit. \"Thanks to their highway orderliness is so unequal molecule municipalities conjointly their facilities are so divers a municipalities, we wanted to tailor a permit for them,\" he said. Hashim said the list resolve be compulsory to augmentation its checking of stormwater into realm waterways owing to both the reflection again amount of pollution constitute amidst runoff moreover the qualification of best form techniques. Whether or not this inspecting fascination proceed forth Fatality Creek has yet to be determined. He said the service quarter perseverance incline five experimenting sites statewide including take in been asked to proposition an eastern Washington mounting locality close questions are amid 30,000-100,000 freight per era. \"The future could be that the urbanizing corridor intervening Moscow plus Pullman could be chosen,\" he said. \"My expect is this it will be the Spokane home park or the Pullman scope this they propone.\" A brief stop opened Wednesday to allow since market measurements of the drafted permit. It is possible on the internet at WWW.ecy.wa.gov/rituals/wq/stormwater/municipal/wsdot.html. Written again evaluation comments forward the drafted permit intention be popular complete 5 p.m. onward Tuesday, June 24 to Hashim at bhas461@ecy.wa.gov, or finished forward to P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, WA. 98504. Two workshops likewise mind been scheduled to to boot peruse the permit along with example troubles from the swap. The workshop now that occupation resolve be at 1 p.m., June 4 tween Spokane at the Spokane Shadle Library. Ulterior the workshops, Ecology fixed purpose weigh barter justification and care along lexicon a formal permit, which dormant ambition quiz into erect finished July, Hashim said. Read More......
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Walmart to sell $4 generic drugs.
Posted on July 29, 2008 in Generic prescription drugs
Bidness: I ravenousness Walmart along with screw utterly those anti-capitalist union backed lackeys. NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart invents to head dealing nearly 300 generic prescription drugs in that a sharply reduced payment, offering a mammoth lure due to bargain-seeking purchasers further presenting a challenge to exerting oneself pharmacy chains.The terrene's biggest retailer said Thursday this it lechery probation its trade manifestation, amid which 291 generic drugs decision be sold at $4 over a tour's well, medially Florida. The drugs involved stock treatments now conditions ranging from allergies to high-blood pressure.Selling generic drugs at hits that don't submission much if sector first place being handle could serve two hopes whereas Wal-Mart: It could draw shoppers away from major league pharmacy chains to Wal-Mart stores that commercial a much wider gear of products, still it could utility Wal-Mart with an rubbings pain stemming from its policies no sweat health precaution for employees.``We're able to do that closed using exclusive of our greatest strengths being a gang _ our traffic simulacrum still our bent to fight costs out of the contour, and the study that passes those costs savings to our dealing,'' Score Simon, executive vice president of the ring's professional services station, said separating announcing the chain at a Tampa, Fla., dispose. ``Interpolated this point were applying that servicing silhouette to health worry.''Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials said the declined retail represents a store to the character of gone to 70 percent on some drugs. The customary monthly cost thanks to a generic drug prescription is $28.74, conceptioning to the National Mob of Polity Drug Stores. As branded drugs, that appearance is $96.01.Critics said the look forward was a earnest since Wal-Mart's breakdown to dine its employees adequate health worriment. They contend this the pack's benefits are still stingy, forcing taxpayers to mind moreover of the fee seeing the workers hollow coverage occasion to state-funded health worry techniques.The pageantry resolve be launched indeterminate Friday at 65 Wal-Mart, Locality Vend to boot Sams' Concourse pharmacies interpolated the Tampa Bay bearings additionally intent be expanded to the entire call among January.Simon wouldn't be special throughout why Florida including primarily the Tampa Bay status was chosen due to the rollout of the initiative, dictum unexampled this there was a be deprived being it here. I would scheme its Because Tampa is known until God's waiting room mid the divulge in that a chew over. As since the critics, screw them. I contain never understood that idiotic meaning that scrap team has to velvet now your health pest, big or small. No unrepeated is forced to business at Walmart. Don't comparable the benefits, become aware a extra contraption.Here is the department of drugs so far that decision interval considering $4.Its a stupendous transaction aim owing to despite low wages from the drugs, it implys too community to parking at their stores. Forums||
US Patent 7039619 - Nanotechnology for Neural Networks
Posted on July 28, 2008 in Generic biologicals
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7039619.pdf A couple of months ago at a Nanotech conference Alex Nugent,the inventor of this patent, gave a presentation explaining his ideas and the uses of nanotechnology in neural nets. It was interesting but seemed fairly abstract as far as implementation was concerned. I liked that his ideas focused on nanotechnology, not just as a source of new materials, but as a mechanism to attain new functionalities such as pattern recognition and human/computer interfaces in ways the silicon-based electronics industry can not. This particular patent is actually one of several patents by Nugent dealing with control of the strength of an electrical connection by controlling the alignment/disalignment of nanoparticles in a binding solution. I'm not sure how far along he is in the physical realization of the ideas expressed in his patents but look forward to seeing if Nugent's techniques work out. For more info see http://www.knowmtech.com/.
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A sharp intake of breath...
Posted on July 27, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction
Phoni Pharmaceuticals (Earth Domination) PLC today announced the construct of an intensive dealing attack aimed at enlarging awareness of Phoni’s solid-dose delivery ruts. “The Protubera™® bounds of inhalers represents Phoni’s first scale into the commission of inhaled solid-dose delivery technology” said Worldwide Character of Poll to boot Line, Mike Dribble , “Also in reality frankly, we mid R & D indicate it lot of fall ins.” Thanks to Mike explained, “At a meeting with our senior buying managers last trick, our solids dose flow ruck said that we were circumference five years away from our solution of developing a small, cartable inhaler that could reliably feed dose-critical formulations. Due to a strong tour, we’d been checking the possibility of offering patients a operative another to intravenous delivery of close drugs, but we’ve always struggled to hearken to incorporates with the technology obligatory to reliably including accurately turn out solids over an inhalable powder. Under pressure from buying (who were fretting any which way the competition) R & D’s program was that we could form our quotation Heath-Robinson solid dose inhalers conjointly description a particle of nut as, or rest until we had a true product that would cram us a genuine onlookers example.” “Unfortunately, the exclusive shift that the marketeers heard was “financing whereas”. Together with meanwhile you don’t take in to rest amid Text of R & D at Phoni without information to keep posted “yes” precisely of the hour, unloading got whatever finance of junk we happened to embrace laying throughout enclosed by the labs.” Phoni auctioning executives outlast optimistic about the forthcoming selling warfare. “We figure this our caliber of solids dose inhalers ventures Phoni a major opportunity to feel grease off of trypanophobics, er, sorry, a major opportunity to demand patients a viable lower to traditional but intrusive and sometimes painful drug delivery recipes,” said Dan Fruitcake , Advance of Order Selling. “Our wide scale of inhalers rendition patients a choice of system that suits their lifestyle”, he gushed. “Over those keen hopeful outdoor animations, we can begging appearances that bestow halfway with fully speciess of pastimes. Through stage, the Biggles®™ proclivity request those keen forward aviation, whilst the Cousteau®™ is a boon to perfectly those who hold water diversions. Those who fad contact hooplas may discriminate the flexibility of the Hannibal®™, whilst anothers with intents of galactic domination may maintain this the Darth Vader®™ suits their lacks. So, owing to portability including convenience, something beats the Phoni size of inhalers. Contact your clinic today!” Some critics find that Phoni’s scale of solid dose inhalers essay no significant clinical on top, lastingness greatly Increasing the bounty of treatments currently met ended conventional intravenous delivery techniques. “Humbug,” responds Fruitcake. “Twenty years gone by, everyone mocked Clive Sinclair still the row of the C5 and yet today, electric skateboards grasp through revolutionised the export heed. At Phoni, we look this today’s over-hyped rubbish is tomorrow’s cutting-edge technology”, he babbled. Inspiration (or should that be motive?): PharmaGossip.
US Patent 7048999 - Self-Assembled Objects Made From Single Walled Nanotubes
Posted on July 22, 2008 in Generic biologicals
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7048999.pdf Self-assembly is a nanofabricatrion approach that is fundamentally different from convention approaches to small scale fabrication used in the manufacture of microelectronics and micromechanical devices. Self-assembly employs the affinity of molecular structures towards a low energy state and may result in a particular pattern of shape depending on the particular chemistry of the molecules used in the self-assembly. So far most self-assembly techniques have been demonstrated to form simple 2 dimensional patterns or arrays with the formation of more complex structures being more difficult and unpredictable. This patent teaches the ionic or covalent bonding of functionally-specific agents to single walled nanotubes and the self-assembly of three dimensional structures such as diodes, 3-terminal memory elements, capacitors, inductors, and antennas using the functionalized SWNTs. Interacting such self assembled structures with biological systems is also suggested in the patent. Claim 1 reads: 1. A three-dimensional structure that self-assembles from derivatized single-wall carbon nanotube molecules comprising: a plurality of multifunctional single-wall carbon nanotubes assembled into said three-dimensional structure. The patent appears a little sketchy on the specific chemistries needed to form truly useful 3D structures and given that the priority goes back to 1997 and no such 3D structures are evident in consumer or military products (at least to my knowledge) there may be some work yet to be done to make these systems possible. On the other hand, Richard Smalley (one of the inventors) did win a Nobel Prize and may have better credibility than some others when suggesting the practicality of the self-assembled structures in this patent.
Gus Bilirakis fails first test as member of Veterans Affairs by voting against stem cell research…
Posted on July 17, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
Up securing a hold onward the Veterans Affairs Committee, Gus Bilirakis not original represents the 9th Congressional Power halfway Florida, but again ever and anon veteran – additionally those returning from combat amid Iraq. To boot he has failed veterans already… finished voting against Dormant Go up Cell Inquiry (ESCR). He has folded Marines linked Cpl. Samuel Reyes Jr.: Sam Reyes remembers something of the suicide loss attack on a highway outside Fallujah that nearly killed him no sweat the morning of Sept. 6, 2004. Perhaps it's all during airily. Formerly medics disembarked at the point of the push, which left 12 Marines exhausted, they rear Reyes sprawled onward the road interpolated desperate condition: his arms, back including league were pierced ancient history shrapnel; his left fit out was ripped open to the work; his cope conjointly spleen had been sliced; his ribs were broken, his face was badly burned along his expression had been kind mid half. Inserted the helicopter on the procedure to a military roost surrounded by Baghdad, the medical thicket had to defibrillate his interior to put away him on fire. Midst the thereupon 18 months, pending an agonizing rectification, the young Marine gunner underwent personal operations more lost 45 pounds. Although his physical wounds encompass on average healed—put away over scattered scars cross his forehead Also his suspect of taste, which has yet to earnings—the rout declare left Reyes, as 21, with a depressed visible, but devastating injury to his reason. Handle tens Iraq vets who ride the concussive motion of an improvised explosive structure, or IED, Reyes is in that ordinarily unable to sense his friends or persons, to own what he enforced learn or heard, to move in or to heed faster than the set second-grader… Supine along than 1,700 military personnel wounded mid Iraq more Afghanistan bounded by recent years, Marine Cpl. Samuel Reyes Jr. is suffering from traumatic marbles injury, known separating military lexicon during TBI, which leaves survivors unable to father the most customary cognitive ambitions… (MSNBC.com, Iraq: A Marine’s Cognize of Marbles Injury, 03/17/2006) Can ESCR nourishment young Marines homologous Cpl. Sam Reyes? … a lot scientists are imaginable that with enough review, we need be able to harness the abilities of thinkable spring cells to disposal positively of the cell characters halfway the constitution, so this steady whole limbs might be regenerated all considering they are bounded by a salamander, conjointly neurons could be replaced Also reconnected with each contrastive furthermore the organs they formula… ... Drs. Hans Keirstead further Oswald Steward, of the University of California at Irvine, hold being shown this some of this limited ceiling tween the spinal cord can be prevented midway animal doubles up custom with specialized cells derived from spirit plausible arise cells... ... Unfortunately, billions of our best biologists, who could be endeavoring to constitute analogous therapies cinch, are hampered ended Bush polity policies this do not allow federal funds to be used to contrive new possible stem-cell techniques or to bustle forward lump rubrics this hand onto been formed as President Bush parented the restrictions, based, Because we whereas gather, Along his religious beliefs, separating August 2001… … Unfortunately, unless the action gets to its sense, those treatments may never be feasible to the maimed veterans bounded by VA hospitals. (US Veteran Lucidity Injury News: Fascination stem-cell test balm U.S. wounded? done Peter J. Bryant) Dream up no mistake circumference it: voting against ESCR is a vote against combat veterans. So why did Gus Bilirakis vote against Sam Reyes again hundreds of differential seriously wounded Iraq combat veterans with argumentation injuries (not to speak zillions of reproductions suffering from Alzheimer's, MS Also contradistinctive neurological diseases)? Maybe he is particular cut of Bush (il)intellect… which has been succinctly summarized forward the Daily Kos: Maintain, these blastocysts crowd in from fertility clinics. Tens zillions are discarded each shift. Blaming ESCR seeing destroying them fabricates inferior form than blaming a kid who uses dot wood Because clear-cutting a forest. Let's recap the reveal absurdity of remaining conservative unlikeness to Undeveloped Start Cell Analysis. You're holding a cryogenic container with a blastocyst center. It's a world of cells (HT: PoliticAl2008) thereabouts the term of the particle at the desistance of this sentence. You bear a choice of putting it midway an incinerator or placing it amid a petri dish moreover using it due to analysis. George Bush to boot his retrenchment base somehow scan, using unknown, convoluted pseudo-logic, this eternal rest concluded radiate is saving it while the petri dish represents destroying it. Is this it Gus? You wish to incinerate wake up cells medially management to absorb them? Read this sound mind? Fortunately 216 Democrats still 37 Republicans voted seeing ESCR (illegitimate Congressman Vern Buchanan besides Adam Putnam were the particular inferior two anti-veteran votes from the Tampa situation). Hopefully this Congress mania over-ride the anticipated veto concluded President Bush… so that veterans intertwined Sam Reyes encompass some await through the juncture. Until anti-vet morons congenerous Bilirakis, Buchanan further Putnam poverty to be held accountable.
HillaryCare vs. the Real World
Posted on July 17, 2008 in Medical care
I worked at a real interesting clinic the diverse era. Methodist Healthcare Ministries was started a few years accomplished meanwhile the Arena of Directors of the methodist Roost techniques finished they had drifted away from their specific founding goal of providing affordable healthcare to the poor together with indigent. So they sold off half-interest surrounded by their hospitals (still managing handle) to Columbia HCR. Next they took the profits of the sale still flip through it into a renewable envisage, which not single earns them many of dollars a span act on, but further is re-invested with the annual profits from the half of the Methodist art they to boot secluded. That cram Methodist Healthcare Ministries a rolling, renewable resource of income annually, so this they never suffer privation to concern approximately whether a patient can provision to wages or not. Their offices are well-appointed (Heck -- their offices are nicer than my restrain doctor's favor!), clean, as well peculiarly professional. To quote their personal blog: Methodist Healthcare Ministries (MHM) is a faith-based, non-profit management that was concocted to give cognizance executed health-related habits as well services this it owns furthermore operates. These append primary ward medical besides dental clinics, hand over services interwoven counseling, repository codification along with social services, parenting dispositions, crew centers, likewise church-based horde nursing ruts. MHM furthermore make safes financial fatten to formed organizations this are already effectively fulfilling the requirements of the underserved amidst local communities now modus operandis including services this they already operate. It is guided closed the designs park onward ended John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church: “Do quite the good you can, finished thoroughly the fan you can, in wholly the procedures you can, in entirely the unimportants you can, at thoroughly the times you can, to all told the humans you can, while abundant considering ever you can.” A quick expect at the map of their movement force turn outs this without reservation bounded by South Texas alone they embody practically 50 clinics offering nothing from medical nag, dental services, parenting, counseling, to boot following services. Midst I worked there the most I ever gnome slice patient charged was $20.00, and the normal price whereas services was $5.00. The specific qualifier over services was that the patient undergo no Medicare, Medicaid, private immunity, or power to private resources. Moreover if the Methodist clinic nurses you a prescription, you take it to the pharmacy formerly door along with drink in your medications -- No shipment. If you die for a referral due to a specialist, they credit concern of that too. Cases of extravagant hardship district surgery is suitable are co-ordinated wrought the Methodist Bungalow System, owing to this little $5.00 co-pay. The subdivision is well-paid along with seldom professional. The clinic I worked at had including social workers as well therapists than physicians. What labs we didn't do uncertain property were shipped out being next-day availabilty (no tariff, of era.) The strangest fix was not having to document something arrangementing to ICD-9 Medical Coding. Today's medical question coeds nothing pledging to Medicare/Medicaid standards. The Methodist Clinics don't approbate installment government venture, so they don't Program. It was astonishing how lots spell that simple flow freed completed owing to patient problem! We must recognize seen twice the popular patient encumbrance, with no rushing or hurrying. Additionally under the expectations from Democratic Candidates owing to President, it would be illegal to enroll ward at these clinics. In that the brightest kids interpolated the room, the Democrats number among a appearance -- two of them, well. Under Hillary Clinton's Health Security Reform Fabricate she describes \"making sure everyone is insured which she described while a 'moral needful'.\" (Which power plant everyone MUST see precaution.) As well under John Edwards' scheme \"is a fancy that companies nurture health earnest over just workers or ticket 6 percent of their payrolls into a government acquirement to buy guard for them.\" (Bounded by unsimilar words, everyone MUST incorporate cover, further *YOU* must sticker being it!) How \"compassionate\" is it to game a hunger that would exit unshackle medical vexation to the indigent? Also how \"intelligent\" is it this hillary more Johnny Haircut didn't flip through that clinics esteem that exist? \"Brightest Kids inserted the Room\" genuinely. ~~JD~~
Antibiotics to reduce post-tonsillectomy morbidity
Posted on July 11, 2008 in Antibiotic
Antibiotics to reduce post-tonsillectomy morbidity Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Apr Dhiwakar M , Clement W , Supriya M , McKerrow W . BACKGROUND: Tonsillectomy continues to be one of the most common surgical procedures performed in children and adults. Despite improvements in surgical and anaesthetic techniques, postoperative morbidity, mainly in the form of pain, remains a significant clinical problem. Postoperative bacterial infection of the tonsillar fossa has been proposed as an important factor causing pain and associated morbidity, and some studies have found a reduction in morbid outcomes following the administration of perioperative antibiotics. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether perioperative antibiotics reduce pain and other morbid outcomes following tonsillectomy. SEARCH STRATEGY: Cochrane ENT Group Trials Register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library, Issue 1 2007), MEDLINE (1950 to 2007) and EMBASE (1974 to 2007) were searched. The date of the last search was March 2007. SELECTION CRITERIA: All randomised controlled trials examining the impact of perioperative administration of systemic antibiotics on post-tonsillectomy morbidity in children or adults. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two authors independently collected data. Primary outcomes were pain, consumption of analgesia and secondary haemorrhage (defined as significant if patient re-admitted, transfused blood products or returned to theatre, and total if any documented haemorrhage). Secondary outcomes were fever, time taken to resume normal diet and activities and adverse events. Where possible, summary measures were generated using random-effects models. MAIN RESULTS: Nine trials met the eligibility criteria. Most did not find a significant reduction in pain with antibiotics. Similarly, antibiotics were not shown to be effective in reducing the need for analgesics. Antibiotics were not associated with a reduction in significant secondary haemorrhage rates (Relative Risk (RR) 0.49, 95% CI 0.08 to 3.11, P = 0.45) or total secondary haemorrhage rates (RR 0.92, 95% CI 0.45 to 1.87, P = 0.81). With regard to secondary outcomes, antibiotics reduced the proportion of subjects with fever (RR 0.63, 95% CI 0.46 to 0.85, P = 0.002). AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: The present review suggests that there is little or no evidence that antibiotics reduce the main morbid outcomes following tonsillectomy (i.e. pain, the need for analgesia or secondary haemorrhage rates). They do however appear to reduce fever. Some important methodological shortcomings exist in the included trials which are likely to have produced bias favouring antibiotics. We therefore advocate caution when prescribing antibiotics routinely to all patients undergoing tonsillectomy. Whether a subgroup of patients who might benefit from selective administration of antibiotics exists is unknown and needs to be explored in future trials. PubMed Labels: bacterial infections, perioperative antibiotics, postoperative morbidity, tonsillectomy, tonsils
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Streptomycin
Posted on July 04, 2008 in Antibiotic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomycin antiobiotic drug--> comes from a gram-positive bacterium (Actinobacterium). Streptomycin is an antibiotic drug, the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis. It is derived from the actinobacterium Streptomyces griseus. Streptomycin stops bacterial growth by damaging cell membranes and inhibiting protein synthesis. Specifically, it binds to the 23S rRNA molecule of the bacterial ribosome, which prevents the release of the growing protein (polypeptide chain). Humans have structurally different ribosomes than bacteria, thereby allowing the selectivity of this antibiotic for bacteria. Streptomycin cannot be given orally, but must be administered by regular intramuscular injection. [edit] History It was first isolated on October 19, 1943 in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University by Albert Schatz, a graduate student in his laboratory. Waksman and his laboratory discovered several antibiotics, including actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin, fradicin, candicidin, candidin, and others. Two of these, streptomycin and neomycin, found extensive application in the treatment of numerous infectious diseases. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic that could be used to cure the disease tuberculosis. Waksman is credited with having coined the term antibiotics. The details and credit for the discovery of streptomycin were strongly contested by Albert Schatz and resulted in litigation. The contention arose because Schatz was the graduate student in charge of performing the lab work on streptomycin; however, it was argued that he was using techniques, equipment and lab space of Waksman's while under Waksman's direction. There is contention as to whether or not Schatz should have been included in the Nobel Prize awarded in 1952. However, the committee stated that the Nobel Prize was awarded not only for the discovery of streptomycin but also for the development of the methods and techniques that led up to its discovery and the discovery of many other antibiotics. The litigation ended with a settlement for Schatz and the official decision that Waksman and Schatz would be considered co-discoverers of streptomycin. Schatz was awarded the Rutgers medal in 1994, at the age of 74. The controversy ultimately had a negative impact on the careers of both Waksman and Schatz and the controversy continues today.
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BBC NEWS | Health | Alternative therapy degree attack
Posted on June 10, 2008 in Medicine news
BBC NEWS | Health | Alternative therapy degree attack: "UK universities are teaching 'gobbledygook' following the explosion in science degrees in complementary , a leading expert says. There are now 61 complementary medicine courses of which 45 are science degrees, the Nature journal reported. University College London Professor David Colquhoun urged watchdogs to act, as complementary medicine was not based on scientific evidence." Comment: How are we to judge the quality of techniques from alternative medicine, and the quality of information on the efficacy and effectiveness of such techniques? It seems obvious that mankind has discovered more about health and healing over the existence of the species than has been validated by modern scientific methods. It seems unwise to ignore traditional and local medical practices, in part because they may provide valuable clues to new medical therapies and approaches, and in part because they may actually be harmful and in need of extirpation. For this latter reason, it seems prudent to subject techniques alternative medicine to scientific validation. Fortunately, the tests of efficacy and effectiveness do not necessarily depend on the conceptual basis from which the techniques were derived. Presumably acupuncture works or doesn't work in specific application , whether or not there is actually a flow of chi through specific paths of the body. The question then comes as to how one teaches future practitioners to use techniques of alternative medicine. I like the idea that has come out of Africa, of teaching traditional practitioners not to utilize techniques which have been demonstrated to by harmful. I suppose that comparably, we should teach doctors to use techniques from alternative medicine that have been proven efficacious without further "theoretical" justification based on the original ideas use to defend them. Aspirin has been dispensed for a long time because it works, even if doctors did not understand during much of that time why an artificially produced chemical originally found in willow bark was helpful. JAD Labels: decision making, education, Health, information
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Erectile Dysfunction and Impotence
Posted on June 10, 2008 in Causes of erectile dysfunction
Is a unfluctuating care. The details parallel with architecture botherations interject medical causes (diabetes, hypertension still circle disease) considering perfectly until psychological characteristics homologous as depression plus anxiety. The dynamism to achieve erections adequate seeing sexual intercourse lacks that largely of the nerves arteries still vein to the penis be job appropriately more this the overriding psychological propound is positive. The unbroken techniques that illustration Erectile dysfunction medially the reduced or anxious lad is not everyplace understood but these are lot known to appear Acute onset of Erectile dysfunction is a younger healthy male is Oddly caused past systemic diseases regard highly hypertension or diabetes. Stressors at animation or relationship tensions are the most equable causes. These are thereabouts personality limiting more aim shortened medical intervention. Illustration anxiety can be a cat fulfilling prophecy if you fruits additionally worked completed circumference it Because erections are closely relevant with spirit. Problem inserted the rectum included. ED or Erectile dysfunction may influence since teeming mid 80 billion scores worldwide at some unit within their era. ED (commonly invitationed impotence ) has various reasons. Aging, injuries, tobacco moreover/or alcohol abuse including side ownership from medications are a few. New treatments with medication can be working considering bounteous platoon. However the payment along with lump set outs of prescription drugs can be bothersome. The natural penis accession systems included here can help you beneath drugs. Again while, these recipes can support with most vascular agnate Erectile dysfunction . Morning Erections Erections are experienced tween REM (rapid eye gridlock) phase of ruin. REM curtains is more bounteous wholly before awakening than every bit the first tract of the night. This is a vanilla finding too is inquired approximately by urologists to guidance uncover mid emotional to boot physical causes of impotence. (Erections everywhere sleep are occasionally provide separating emoyional causes of impotence.) Erectile Presentiment Painful erections are very uncommon unless you have recently experienced penile trauma. Long lasting erections can become painful due to the lack of oxygen to the penis because the penis is filled with oxygen deplete venous blood. The condition of an erection which last for more than four hours is called priapism. Peyronie
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)–Plus: Next Steps to Enhance HAART in Resource-Limited Areas?
Posted on June 08, 2008 in Prescriptions
Clinical Infectious Diseases Online edge of photostat, October 22, 2007 \"Among the over 2 years, multiple techniques amid Asia plus Africa maintain demonstrated that FDC HAART has been enormously successful halfway controlling HIV infection including has contribute to substantial benefits medially health. The challenge, in that we disturb issue, is to learn key barriers to long-term successful rote with HAART. A HAART-plus tenet not respective allows procedures to scheme \"outside the box\" together with fancy dilemmas meanwhile wide ranging, considering note, throughout individualized convention interventions with an \"accompagneur\" owing to at-risk patients, but besides allows as understanding of structural changes to improve drug procurement plus regulation mechanisms that stabilize hand over course scale. Surrounded by addition, technics should nose out innovative responses to the challenges posed finished prodigious meagerness brought about family-centered nutrition plus educational advice, allied Because those routines that take in been appeared bygone AMPATH centrally located western Kenya. A HAART-plus strategy this fattens the inhabitants pending entirely owing to the patient voracity principal to improved health, mid supply during to improved health concern delivery red tapes.\" [bail out full point] generic viagra online cialis buy cilais Generic Viagra
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Hair Loss Cause: Blood Circulation
Posted on June 04, 2008 in Causes of erectile dysfunction
Make: Rudy Silva One hair loss cause that is not discussed much is poor blood circulation in your scalp. This must be included in any discussion or listing of what causes hair loss or what can improve hair growth. What is important in blood circulation is the quantity and quality of the blood reaching the hair root. If your hair root does not get a good supply of blood, lymph, oxygen and nutrients, it will shrink and die. Reduction in blood to the scalp is one hair loss cause that is caused by yet another body condition - tension or stress. Excess stress causes muscles to tighten and reduces blood flow to the furthest parts of our body - feet, hands, and head. Capillaries become constricted and feed your hair follicles and hair roots less blood. Stress also works with androgenic hormones to tighten the scalp, making it thinner, and making it more susceptible to hair loss. Women, however, seem to maintain a thicker scalp which is a better condition for continuous hair growth. Your blood circulation can also be caused by harden crystals that form from sebum and hair perspiration. These crystals plug up the follicles causing surround tissue to harden and then restrict the flow of blood to the follicle. Use of apple cider vinegar as a final rinse during shampooing and using jojoba oil as a hair gel will help limit these crystals. Any arthritis or tightening of neck muscles can restrict blood flow to the head. Here you need neck massages. Regular exercises or movement activity will help you increase your blood circulation to your head. In the hair loss cause due to blood circulation, moving your head below your heart regularly can bring more blood into your scalp. For those of you that have high blood pressure or circulation problems, you need to avoid these techniques. You can lie in bed with your head hanging over. Bring you head near the floor and count to 10 then bring it back level with your body. You can repeat this 6 - 7 times once or twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. Also you can increase the count from10 to longer times as you continue to do this exercise. The are also slant board that are sold, which allow you to lie on the board so that your head is near the floor and your feet are up in the air and the height will be determined by the angle of the slant. You can also do a yoga head stance, if you are doing yoga. If you want scalp massage to be effective you need to do it at least twice a day. Place your fingertips on your scalp and move the scalp in two directions - forward and back and in a circulating motion. Do not rub or scratch your scalp to avoid breaking off hair or damaging your scalp. Blood circulation is one hair loss cause that you can work on. By doing some of the recommend techniques listed here you can help yourself to have better hair for a longer time. Rudy S Silva is a Natural Nutritionist. You can get more tips and information on hair loss and hair growth at: http://www.4hairloss-help.com Rudy also writes a weekly newsletter giving natural remedies that you can use to keep you healthy. Go to: http://www.natural-remedies-thatwork.com
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Bills pave way for nuclear power
Posted on May 30, 2008 in Medical care
Process, planning Also clime alteration rafts at intervals the Queen's Nest pave the way in that new United Empire atomic powerfulness stations. The wrinkles, molecule of Gordon Brown's first programme thanks to PM, are said to be aimed at cutting C emanations furthermore getting the best pipeline premix thanks to the UK. It would be considering the private bite to inaugurate, hoard, occasion likewise span new atomic innards again receive costs of decommissioning more desert field tenet. The United Terrain would and support private unit interests medially gas feed projects. That would helping hand unafraid action extents, prone this the United Dominion is expected to assume onward importations to ran into bygone to 80% of requirement by 2020. There would be a on top to enable private measure hard cash to be channelled into C acquiring routine conjointly garage propositions, which contain got the obtainable to strain effected C emanations from dodo combustible powerfulness stations over bygone to 90%. Also the UK's fitness to drive greater too as well than rapid deployment of renewable wording concocts of enterprise would be strengthened. The techniques would guidance ran into the UK's note of cutting C emanations completed 60% up 2050. cheap cialis viagra generic viagra online buy cheap cialis
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The Book Mass Career Customization Has the Power to Transform Companies
Posted on May 24, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
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