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January 29, 2004 - 1:21pm -- jim
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Health

hydrarchist writes

"Generic Medicine Supplier Reguests Action to Lower Price of Two Blockbuster Drugs"

Essential Inventions, Inc., announces that it will request US Secretary of
Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to use authority under
Bayh-Dole Act to license generic production of two blockbuster drugs
funded by federal government; abusive pricing cited as grounds.

August 21, 2003 - 4:26pm -- nolympics
Analysis & Polemic
Health



Although it is cliché to say, her beauty and serenity evoke an aging Virgin Mary, especially in this setting. She sits on her donkey expression unchanged as she bounces along among the olive trees through the rocky valley pass eyes glancing outward, watchful and placid.


    Her donkey has an open sore on its behind and she has a grotesquely bulbous and purple arm irritated to elephantine proportions by the holes made to clean her blood three times a week.


      It is this arm that she offers to the soldier as proof of her right to pass. The man she travels with, also a dialysis patient, on a healthier donkey with less corroded looking track marks, speaks English,“Please”, he says looking up at the two boys lounging on the hill, guns cocked,

“Dialysis, we are dialysis.”


    Nidal has no common language with these people. She offers the arm and a slight faraway smile.

April 2, 2003 - 10:30am -- hydrarchist
News
Health

Louis Lingg writes:

"The New York Daily News has posted a story about the US Army's effort to jumpstart a free-market economy in Iraq.

By RICHARD SISK

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

UMM QASR, Iraq - The U.S. military came up with a solution yesterday for the penniless people of this port town begging for water: Sell it.

November 25, 2002 - 5:38pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Health

"Orchestrating Health Crises:

Forced Vaccinations and

the Totalitarian State"

Mitch Cohen

Under legislation submitted to states throughout the US, medical providers
will be required to administer smallpox vaccines to the population whether
people want it or not. The doctors will also fill out forms enabling the
federal government to track those inoculated with smallpox vaccines.

November 9, 2002 - 5:53pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Health

Katherine Van Wormer writes:

"Addiction, Brain Damage and the President:

'Dry Drunk' Syndrome and George W. Bush"

by Katherine van Wormer October 11, 2002

[Katherine van Wormer is a Friend (Quaker), Professor of Social Work at the
University of Northern Iowa, and co-author of the recent Addiction
Treatment: A Strengths Perspective (2002).]

Ordinarily I would not use this term. But when I came across the article
'"Dry Drunk" -- Is Bush Making a Cry for Help?' in 'American Politics
Journal' by Alan Bisbort, I was ready to concede ... in the case of George
W. Bush, the phrase may be quite apt.

June 1, 2002 - 6:26pm -- nomadlab
Events
Health

Anonymous Comrade writes "TUESDAY JUNE 4TH AT 7:00 PM


Film screening of GREGG BORDOWITZ's Habit (2001) and conversation with the artist conducted by GREGG GONSALVES, Director of Treatment and Prevention at GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis). Habit addresses the urgent need for global access to life-saving HIV treatments, featuring interviews with AIDS activists from South Africa, Brazil and India.

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York (CUNY)
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

This event is organized in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program exhibition EMPIRE/STATE: ARTISTS ENGAGING GLOBALIZATION curated by Kirstin Butler, Jennifer Farrell, Yates Mckee and Mercedes Vicente ( May 24-July 14th at the CUNY Graduate Center)"

December 14, 2001 - 10:05pm -- jim
Events
Health

DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST LACK OF PROTECTION, COMMUNICATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM THE GOVERNMENT REGARDING WTC ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS OF THE COMMUNITY

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 2001

RALLY BEGINS 5:30 P.M. AT BROADWAY ENTRANCE OF CITY HALL PARK

PRESS CONFERENCE AT STEPS OF CITY HALL AT 5:00 P.M.

A Limited Number of People are Allowed at City Hall Steps for Press Conference.
We Hope The Mass of People Will Come to The Rally

Come Bring any Props-Mops, Brooms, Masks, Asbestos Suits etc.
Express Your Outrage

Endorsers: WTC Emergency Environmental Group, Independence Plaza Tenants
Association, PS 234 Parents Association, PS 89 Parents Association, IS 89
Parents Association, Stuyvesant High School Parents Association, Stuyvesant
High School Student Union, UFT Chapter of Stuyvesant High School, Lower
Manhattan Resident Relief Coalition, Good Old Lower East Side, Met Council On
Housing, Tenants and Neighbors, New York Public Interest Research Group,
Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborers Local 78, Chinese Progressive
Association, New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning.

November 8, 2001 - 6:20pm -- Uncle Fluffy
Health

Louis Lingg writes: "The US State Department has posted a World Health Organization report on the mental health crisis in Afghanistan.

An excerpt: "
Twenty-three years of war have ravaged the mental health and
psychosocial functioning of the people in Afghanistan. Killing,
executions, massive persecution, forced internal displacement, fear
associated with living in mined areas, and the latest escalation of
violence have left an indelible mark on the population. In addition,
the psychological impact of living in uncertainty affects at least
three million Afghan refugees.""

October 25, 2001 - 4:53pm -- nomadlab
Analysis & Polemic
Health

Genome for the people


BY MARK HENDERSON


Corporate feudalism is hampering research, says an eminent geneticist


It has become a widespread belief that the mapping of the human genome will
lead to a new era of medicine. Shortly before the first drafts were published
with great fanfare in February, Francis Collins, the director of the US
National Genome Research Institute and a founder of the public-sector Human
Genome Project, laid out a vision of a future in which mankind will call on
unprecedented resources in the fight against disease.
By 2010, Collins predicted, scientists will have developed tests for dozens
of genetic illnesses. A decade further down the line, there will be
gene-based designer drugs for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and
schizophrenia. Cancer treatment will be transformed, and every patient will
be prescribed medicines that are tailored to his or her own genetic
fingerprint. In 30 years’ time most Britons will live to the age of 90, and
human beings will be able to manipulate their evolution by genetic
engineering.


While some scientists quibble over the timescale of Collins’s prognosis, few
question the enormous potential of the genome to transform human life. Yet
eight months after the project’s success, many of its architects are raising
concerns about the scientists’ approach to realising its medical fruits.

October 19, 2001 - 4:27pm -- Uncle Fluffy
News
Health

nomadlab writes: "The New York Times is reporting that Canada is going to break the patent on Cipro, the main anti-antrax medication.


The US is supporting this action.


Where was this logic when African nations wanted AIDS meds?


There is a good article on this issue on indymedia.org".

There is also an article in today's New York Times (11.19.2001).

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