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  • PAIN MANAGEMENT: A DOUBLE STANDARD?
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher Two weeks from now, a South Carolina pain management physician will surrender at the Talladega, Alabama, prison to begin serving a 2.5-year sentence for drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. Dr. Michael Jackson is one of hundreds of pain management specialists arrested, charged and jailed by federal and state authorities for violating the Controlled Substances Act, designed to limit the dispensing of illegal prescription drugs by doctors and their use (…)

  • CUBA : LIFE EXPECTANCY SOON TO BE 80 YEARS
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY NAVIL GARCIA ALFONSO-Granma International staff writer-
    AGING with health is the maxim of the 4th International Conference on Satisfactory Longevity: an Integral Vision, which took place in Cuba’s Hotel Nacional, sponsored by the Caribbean Medical Association and the 120 Years Club.
    Doctor Eugenio Selman-Houssein Abdo highlighted the conditions developed in Cuba to maintain good quality of life conditions, including nutrition, health, physical activity, culture, motivation and the (…)

  • Effects of GHz radiation on the human nervous system
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Effects of GHz radiation on the human nervous system: Recent developments in the technology of political control Analysis on Mind Control Electromagnetic Weapons
    by Harlan E. Girard
    May 6, 2006 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coherent and Emergent Phenomena in Biomolecular Systems, University of Arizona - 1991-01-15
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    Paper presented by Harlan E. Girard, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coherent and Emergent Phenomena in (…)

  • Heart of Borneo: medical treasure trove at risk
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/index.cfm?uNewsID=67180
    27 Apr 2006 Gland, Switzerland - Plants that could help treat or cure diseases such as cancer, AIDS and malaria have been found in the forests of the heart of Borneo, according to a new WWF report. But the global conservation organization says this medical treasure trove is threatened and calls for its long-term protection.
    The report - Biodiscoveries, Borneo’s Botanical Secret - reveals that scientists are (…)

  • WHO (World Health Organization) : Life Quality Dramatically Deteriorated for Palestinians
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Development World Health Organization: Life Quality Dramatically Deteriorated for Palestinians Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2006
    In order to have a deeper understanding of the social suffering of the Palestinian people under occupation, a pilot Quality of Life study was undertaken by the World Health Organization - West Bank and Gaza and the Bir Zeit Institute of Community and Public Health in cooperation with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The (…)

  • The Cannabis Man - The last word.
    17 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to the Cannabis Man this is it. We have promised all along that this is leading somewhere and we reckon that we’re just about ready to show you where.
    So, if you will indulge us for a few more lines then we can get to the nitty gritty of this issue and - hopefully - move on. By now you probably think you know a bit about this man (after all, if I mention his 13 years of work again I’ll probably hear you scream from here!) but he wants it known that he is distinctly working class (…)

  • The Cannabis Man - "Is an Englishman’s home still his castle?"
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There used to be a saying in this country…. It went somewhere along the lines that “an Englishman’s home is his castle.†If only such a thing were true today. As things stand such a fondly recalled maxim is only that – a vision of a gentler age, redolent of less intense times…. Times when what happened behind closed doors was acceptable as long as it, “didn’t frighten the horses.â€
    So, why is it assumed now that everything we do – all of our human activities – are open (…)

  • Latin American School of Medical Sciences : free for all !
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Housed on a former military base in Havana, the Latin American School of Medical Sciences trains students from all over Latin America to be doctors, free of charge.
    Since the revolution in 1959, Cuba has had a long tradition of sending doctors and other medical personnel to countries in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean in need of their services. The devastation in Central America and the Caribbean caused by Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in 1998 increased this need exponentially, and (…)

  • Uraniums Effect On DNA Established
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The use of depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to come under intense scrutiny now that new research that found that uranium can bind to human DNA. The finding will likely have far-reaching implications for returned soldiers, civilians living in what were once war-zones and people who might live near uranium mines or processing facilities.
    Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have (…)

  • Cancer in a Can By Terry J. Allen
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2567/
    Fifteen years ago the Food and Drug Administration said, “Trust us.” Its scientists had found benzene, a known carcinogen, in some sodas and fruit drinks. The same levels in drinking water would have triggered mandatory action and public notification through newspaper, radio and TV ads. Yet the FDA neither sounded the alarm nor required the beverage industry to fix the problem.
    Instead, it cut a private deal. FDA chemist Greg Diachenko (…)