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  • Global alert over deadly new TB strains
    7 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global alert over deadly new TB strains
    · Disease untreatable with currently available drugs · South African cases raise fears for Aids programme
    Sarah Boseley, health editor Wednesday September 6, 2006
    World health officials last night put out an unprecedented warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe.
    The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB. They (…)

  • Obesity identified as global epidemic
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obesity identified as global epidemic
    Sunday 03 September 2006, 7:31 Makka Time, 4:31 GMT
    Exploding numbers of overweight children could make today’s generation the first to die before its parents, say health experts.
    The warning comes as more than 2,500 experts and health officials gathered in Sydney on Sunday for the International Congress on Obesity to discuss what organisers said was one of the most important global health issues.
    Professor Paul Zimmet, a diabetes expert who is (…)

  • Veterans exposed to atomic radiation lose court ruling
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted on Fri, Aug. 25, 2006
    Veterans exposed to atomic radiation lose court ruling
    By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers
    WASHINGTON - Radiation exposure took Alice Broudy’s husband a generation ago.
    This week, a court ruling sliced away at her bid for redress.
    In a quiet ruling that nonetheless resonates nationwide, a federal appellate court rejected efforts by Broudy and others seeking claims on behalf of "atomic veterans." The same court simultaneously rejected bids by other (…)

  • Scientist Can Now ERASE Rat Brain Memories - You Next?
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charles Q. Choi Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com 8-31-6
    Scientists have for the first time erased long-term memories in rats and also directly seen how the brain is changed by learning. The research points to potential human benefits. These findings could prove key "to understanding how memories can be augmented, for example in diseases that affect memory, like Alzheimer’s," said neuroscientist Mark Bear at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. The (…)

  • H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan Recombinomics Commentary August 14, 2006
    White House press secretary Tony Snow has announce a press conference of H5N1 in mute swans in Michigan. His comments indicated it was low pathogenic avian influenza and is likely to have strong relationship to the H5N1 detected in Manitoba last August. The H5N1 was part of an expanded surveillance program across southern Canada. H5 was detected across Canada and was found in 24% of young mallards tested in British (…)

  • Is an Armament Sickening U.S. Soldiers? Soldiers say yes, Pentagon Denies it
    13 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK —It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills — morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.
    Four hours later, Herbert Reed will swallow another 15 mg of morphine to cut the pain clenching every part of his body. He will do it twice more before the day is done.
    Since he left a bombed-out train depot in Iraq, his gums bleed. There is more blood in his (…)

  • Israeli use of poisonous material alleged
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Palestinian health ministry accused Israel of using a new type of banned explosives containing poisonous material.
    A ministry report released Monday said testimonies from surgeons in Palestinian hospitals indicated that "all 249 casualties inflicted by the Israeli war machine during the operation on Gaza which started on June 27 resulted from shrapnel of new and developed shells and explosives which cause amputation of limbs and burning of all the injured parts."
    The ministry called (…)

  • Sen. Lieberman Literally in Bed With Drug Lobby
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Joe Conason
    Editor’s note: In this column, Conason points out that the Connecticut senator who would lecture us on ethics drafted a bill in 2005 that made generous giveaways to pharmaceutical companies-one month after his wife went to work in the pharmaceuticals division of a major lobbying and PR firm.
    Whenever Sen. Joseph Lieberman complains that he is the target of a “single-issue” challenge by upstart millionaire Ned Lamont, the three-term incumbent proves he doesn’t quite get (…)

  • Nurses protest move to narrow union roles
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sandy Kleffman
    More than 400 nurses rallied Tuesday in downtown Oakland, hoping to prevent a legal decision they said could sharply restrict union membership and limit the power of the influential California Nurses Association and other labor groups.
    This is a fight we’re going to win — they’re not going to bust our union,’’ Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurse’s union, told the crowd.
    The noon event mirrored a rally in downtown Los Angeles that also drew several hundred (…)

  • Diabetes and Depleted Uranium - Italian Embassy Cover up Continues
    12 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    (San Francisco Bay View) Dr Mishra described June 29th to June 6 as "A week from Hell." International radiation expert Leuren Moret talked to Dr Mishra, a famous surgeon from India, the afternoon of July 7, 2006. Dr. Mishra’s report was grim. I had tried to reach him by phone and email for a week. I was concerned about his safety. On July 10 Dr Mishra stated "I will not be cowed down."
    Mishra reported "Threats at the hospital, three weird phone calls claiming ’we have you under (…)