Tag Archives: 'health'
In the News
- Well, one must admit, he has two huge balls. Representative Rahm Emanuel, brother of Hollywood super-agent Ari, proposed to cut off funds for the vice president, who had claimed that he had extraordinary powers, and was not governed by the Constitution. – Was there a real reason that price floors were not allowed for [...]
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- Choose your doctor wisely, because they have the “right to refuse treatment based on values.“ – The OVP gone wild: “Vice President Cheney’s office has refused to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified information for the past four years and recently tried to abolish the office that sought to enforce [...]
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- “The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.” Enough said. (via kottke.org) – About the surge, Mr. Bush. “Violence in Iraq, as measured by casualties among troops and [...]
A Conversation With Tim Riley, Part 3
The final part of my conversation with Tim Riley (of Tour for the Cure) involved a discussion on the role of the pharmaceutical industry in today’s health care crisis (or what can and should be construed as a “crisis;” I don’t think anyone would object to using that term). Tim had somewhat off-handedly mentioned a [...]
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- In continued efforts to get past the “ethical debate” with stem cell research, “researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient’s cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease.” I have a hard time believing that the far right will not come [...]
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- Relations between Bush an Putin have taken a turn for the worse. Bush: “There needs to be no military response because we’re not at war with Russia.” Umh, I hope so. – Pharmaceuticals gone wild… “A medical study intended to demonstrate the heart safety of a well-known diabetes treatment seems, instead, to have added [...]
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