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At Our Bodies Our Blog: CDC Reverses HPV Vaccine Requirement for Immigration
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At Our Bodies Our Blog this week, I cover the CDC’s new vaccination criteria for U.S. immigration, which removed HPV and zoster (chicken pox) from the required vaccines. I also have a bit about why the HPV vaccine requirement was problematic, links to previous related posts, and links to organizations for women of color that issued a statement applauding the change.
Meanwhile, C’s post on the new mammogram recommendations has useful explanation of the change and a lively comments section.
Posted in Access, Rights, & Choice, Boobs, Cancer, Ethics, Global Issues, Government, HPV, Infectious Diseases (Source...
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john hoeffel, LAtimes: da cooley vows to prosecute medical cannabis dispensaries regardless of law (2067)Email this article to a colleague.
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D.A. chides L.A. council, says he’ll target pot dispensaries
Steve Cooley insists sites that sell marijuana are violating state law and will be prosecuted. Of the City Council’s effort to pass an ordinance, he says: ‘Quite frankly we’re ignoring them.’
By John Hoeffel
November 18, 2009
With the Los Angeles City Council poised to take up a medical marijuana ordinance after two years of contentious debate, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned Tuesday that he intends to prosecute dispensaries that sell the drug even if the city’s leaders decide to allow those transactions.
“Th...
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john hoeffel, LA now: da cooley says he will prosecute medical cannabis dispensaries over cash reimbursements despite city’s ordinance (2066)Email this article to a colleague.
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D.A. will prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries — even if L.A. does not ban sales [Updated]
“It makes no sense to play political football with people’s lives.” says councilmember Reyes in update below [after jump],
by John Hoeffel
November 17, 2009
Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said today he will prosecute dispensaries that sell medical marijuana even if the Los Angeles City Council adopts an ordinance that does not ban such sales.
On Monday, two council committees rejected the city attorney’s advice and changed a provision in the proposed ordinance, allowing cash transactions as long as they complied with sta...
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john hoeffel, LAtimes: 2 council committees reject trutanich’s 5th medical cannabis draft ordinance & support cash reimbursements (2065)Email this article to a colleague.
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In rebuff to city attorney, council committees support pot dispensaries
Rejecting advice that Los Angeles must ban sales, lawmakers endorse patients’ cash contributions to outlets, which cannot make a profit.
By John Hoeffel
November 16, 2009
Two Los Angeles City Council committees rejected the advice of the city attorney and voted Monday to approve an ordinance that allows marijuana dispensaries to continue to sell the drug to people with a doctor’s recommendation.
The city attorney’s office has maintained for a year and a half that Los Angeles has no choice but to ban sales because state law and court ...
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john hoeffel, LAtimes: weho’s medical cannabis regs working just fine (2064)Email this article to a colleague.
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West Hollywood’s medical marijuana success story
The small city enforces a strict ordinance and eliminates the drama that plagues L.A.
By John Hoeffel
November 16, 2009
A few miles from Los Angeles City Hall, a small experiment in marijuana regulation has been underway for years. While the state’s largest city passed a flawed moratorium, failed to enforce it, debated proposed rules endlessly and watched flummoxed as dispensaries multiplied, West Hollywood pressed ahead.
Confronted with its own dispensary explosion in 2005, the city surrounded by L.A. imposed a moratorium on dispensaries, clamped interim rules ...
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barbara boxer, courage campaign: please sign petition opposing stupak anti-choice abortion amendment (2063)Email this article to a colleague.
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We are honored to have Senator Barbara Boxer share with Courage Campaign members her commitment to strip the horrific Stupak Amendment from any healthcare reform bill and pass true health care reform. Her message is powerful. We need to show her — and the nation — that thousands and thousands of us stand with her by signing the petition. –Rick Jacobs, Chair, Courage Campaign
Dear Friend,
Ten days ago, the House passed the Stupak Amendment, which would be one of the biggest setbacks to women’s health in recent decades - unless we stand together and stop it.
That’s why we are launc...
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john hoeffel, LA now: city council joint committee scraps trutanich’s medical cannabis “cultivation only” ordinance draft (2062)Email this article to a colleague.
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L.A. City Council panels reject ban on medical marijuana sales
John Hoeffel at City Hall
November 16, 2009
Rejecting the advice of the city attorney, two Los Angeles City Council committees voted today to scrap a proposed provision that would have banned the sale of medical marijuana.
The controversial measure, first proposed a year and a half ago, delayed deliberations as council members debated the wisdom of ignoring the opinion of the city’s top prosecutor. But about four hours into a raucous hearing, council members made it clear they were ready to move on.
“When can we finally stop the merry-go-round?R...
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Sunday News Round-Up – 11/15Email this article to a colleague.
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Lots of good stuff at Our Bodies Our Blog as usual, including a new post from OBOS intern Meg Young on Reebok’s ridiculous new sneaker ad.
The FDA is looking into caffeinated alcoholic beverages and considering whether they are safe and/or legal (via NPR).
On Stupak, NPR has a good explanation of the red tape barriers to abortion that would be created by the amendment.
RaceWire launched a LGBT Racial Equity Toolkit with the note “Though this website was developed especially to inform philanthropic efforts and mobilize support for LBGTQ communities of color, there’s a lot here that could benefit the wider c...
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m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 2— unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2060)Email this article to a colleague.
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Pesticides & Politics, Part 2
the second of two guest blogs
concerning medical cannabis safety
by M. Backes
November 11, 2009
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office found 5.25% of the cannabis samples tested from purchases made at Los Angeles dispensaries (3 out of 52 samples) to contain pesticide residues. Legal thresholds of pesticide residue on cannabis have not yet been established by the EPA or CDPR. By comparison, when the CDPR tests fresh ginger root purchased from California supermarkets, it has found that 5% of samples contain illegally high levels of pesticide residues.
Questions:
Should California state ...
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m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 1—unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2059)Email this article to a colleague.
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Pesticides & Politics, part 1
(This is a guest blog
by M. Backes,
responding to allegations by
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich
about pesticides on medical cannabis.)
October 15, 2009
LA City Attorney, Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich, has been all over the media trying to convince Los Angeles that a pesticide used to kill Mexican fire ants is evidence that medical cannabis provided by dispensaries is poisonous and supporting Mexican drug cartels. Having abandoned the flawed interpretation of the California Supreme Court’s decision in People v. Mentch, Mr. Trutanich and LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley have now la...
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john hoeffel, latimes: AMA jumps into medical cannabis fray (2058)Email this article to a colleague.
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Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group
The American Medical Assn. changes its policy to promote clinical research and development of cannabis-based medicines and alternative delivery methods.
By John Hoeffel
November 11, 2009
The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research.
The nation’s largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, the AMA has maintained since 1997 that marijuana sho...
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kearns to la city council: carmen trutanich & LA’s “extraordinary response” to HIV/AIDS (2057)Email this article to a colleague.
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[tuesday, November 3, 2009] good morning
president garcetti, distinguished council
members. i have given the clerk copies
of my prepared remarks.
my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old
gay man with AIDS, a long-term survivor & activist,
a medical cannabis advocate, a poet & journalist.
i am here this morning to suggest a
plan B for medical cannabis in LA
please empower a special high-speed
ad hoc medical cannabis team, who,
starting with the text of the city’s
legislative analyst submitted to the
plum committee september 25th
can finish translating the whereases
to section numbers inside a month
(sort of ...
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kearns, aids-write.org: wikipedia entry for satyagraha (2056)Email this article to a colleague.
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chers—
wanted to put up reference info from the wikipedia entry for satyagraha, not only because it doesn’t get enough circulation, but also because i believe it could be a successful strategy when applied to the development of an LA medical cannabis ordinance. i don’t think it has truly been applied yet.
take a read
namasté
—rk
Satyagraha theory also influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. during the campaigns he led during the civil rights movement in the United States:
Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonv...
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kearns, AIDS-write.org: dr. jai mahara’s definition of namasté (2055)Email this article to a colleague.
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chers—
this is my favorite essay on the term “namasté,” which belongs in the mix before we go too much further along. i make no claims about divinity here, because nothing can really be verifiably known about divinity. but we all share & perceive & express greatnesses whose roots reach into an inner invisible realm of spirit.
namasté
—rk
. . . while we are singing the praises of namasté, it should be observed how efficient a gesture it is in an age of mass communication. A politician, or performer can greet fifty thousand people with a single namasté, and they can return the honor instan...
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More on the Stupak AmendmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Stupak amendment to the health reform legislation passed by the House yesterday
prohibits federal funds for abortion services in the public option. It also prohibits individuals who receive affordability credits from purchasing a plan that provides elective abortions. However, it allows individuals, both who receive affordability credits and who do not, to separately purchase with their own funds plans that cover elective abortions. It also clarifies that private plans may still offer elective abortions.
Here’s the roll call vote. NPR tonight covered a bit about the controversy around the amendment, and RH Reali...
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kearns to LA city atty: medical cannabis peace mission letter (2054)Email this article to a colleague.
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this is the second publication of this letter, which originally went to rocky degadillo, the LA city attorney at the time (march 4, 2009). in it, i itemize the many problems with a “cultivation only” type ordinance for people who are sick & dying, an ordinance such as the current city attorney, carmen trutanich, has currently proposed, an ordinance whose intent is to shut down medical cannabis in los angeles by making the regulations unreasonable, contrary to the intent of voters and the LA city council.
i will be offering a copy of it to mr. trutanich at the lgbt community forum tonight. he i...
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ryan vaillancourt, downtown news: “lavender los angeles” opens thru 11-20, exhibit of gay LA from 1880’s (2053)Email this article to a colleague.
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Standing Up Before Stonewall
Exhibit Illuminates Los Angeles’ History of Gay Life and Activism
by Ryan Vaillancourt
Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 3:55 PM PST
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In 1969, the Stonewall Riots in New York ignited the nation’s gay rights movement, proving to be a flashpoint for organization and advocacy against discrimination and prejudice. The riots followed a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.
Although Stonewall is widely considered the most important event for the gay rights movement, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Nor was New York alone as a host city for gay a...
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michael weinstein, AHF: join the world AIDS day “testing millions” campaign (2052)Email this article to a colleague.
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Dear friends and colleagues,
I am reaching out to you today to invite you to join the World AIDS Day “Testing Millions” campaign. A global coalition is working hard to make HIV testing free and accessible with linkages to antiretroviral treatment (ART). Be a part of this worldwide movement to conquer AIDS.
We at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) believe that the best way to reach the estimated 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS is to identify those who do not know they are infected and link them to treatment. This is also the best route to combating the spread of the disease, as it is believed that the source o...
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andrew jack, ft.com: glaxo smithkline, pfizer form ViiV to fight HIV/AIDS (2051)Email this article to a colleague.
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ViiV vows joint venture will help fight HIV
By Andrew Jack
November 3 2009
The new head of the pioneering HIV joint venture between GlaxoSmithKline andPfizer predicts his company can operate for at least five years without fresh funding from its shareholders.
Dominique Limet, chief executive of ViiV Healthcare, which was formally launched on Tuesday, says it will generate £1.6bn a year in sales to finance its own research and would begin paying a dividend to its two owners in 2011 as it sells new products.
A woman infected with HIV prepares her medicines in Indonesia. She could be one of thousands who would benefit f...
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NATAP: pharmatimes reports merck/schering merger (2050)Email this article to a colleague.
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Larger Merck says merger will actually increase R&D efficiency
pharmatimes.com
05 November 2009
The new Merck & Co has opened its doors for business, and the company has been laying out its plans for future growth now that Schering-Plough has been added to the group.
Chief executive Richard Clark says that “our integration teams prepared us well for a strong start…with thorough plans designed to ensure a seamless transition”. The new entity now has more than 15 late-stage candidates “spanning critical therapeutic categories” and has 106,000 employees in more than 140 countries.
That figure...
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rebecca roberts, top of the nation (NPR) interviews new US drug czar gil kerlikowske (2050)Email this article to a colleague.
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Drug Policy Changes Under New Director
Talk of the Nation
The Department of Justice will no longer prosecute medical marijuana users who comply with state laws. Some reform advocates hope the move means decriminalization of pot may be in the works. Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske talks about the direction of U.S. drug policy.
REBECCA ROBERTS, host
please click here to kisten to audio recording of Kerlikowske’s interview on the NPR site
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I’m Rebecca Roberts in Washington.
Last month, medical marijuana advocates cheered when Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justi...
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LA city atty carmen trutanich to appear at LGBT community forum tues nite (2049)Email this article to a colleague.
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LGBT forum with
los angeles city attorney
carmen trutanich
an evening of discussion on how the los angeles city attorney’s office may address issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
tuesday, november 10, 2009
the village at ed gould plaza, renberg theatre 1125 n. mccadden place los angeles, ca 90038
reception 6pm
refreshments will be served
community forum 7-8pm
presented by
asian pacific islander pride council
la gay & lesbian center
jordan/rustin coalition
log cabin republicans
stonewall democratic club
2009 LA Pride Parade held in West H...
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Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8Email this article to a colleague.
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Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes
As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* prohibits women who receive government insurance subsidies from purchasing private plans that include abortion coverage — sucked a lot of the energy out of the room.
She has a number of posts on health care reform and especially the Stupak amendment from yesterday, with links to a number of additional resources and ...
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AIDS.gov hosts federal phone conference for world AIDS day 2009 (2048)Email this article to a colleague.
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World AIDS Day
Federal Conference Call
Tuesday,
November 17, 2009:
2:30pm - 4:00pm (EST)
AIDS.gov is hosting a World AIDS Day Conference Call for Federal staff and grantees. The call will provide a brief update on the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and a brief overview of the global epidemic.
Participants will have a chance to ask these representatives about Federal HIV/AIDS programs:
Dr. Howard Koh, HHS
Mr. Christopher Bates, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy
Ambassador Eric Goosby, PEPFAR
Dr. Kevin Fenton, CDC
Mr. David Vos, HUD
Dr. Deborah Parham Hopson, HRSA
Dr. Carl Dieffenbach, NIH/NIAID
Ms. Beverly Watts Dav...
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Kroger Also Needs to Unlock the CondomsEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the past year or so, I’ve seen a lot of effort toward convincing pharmacy/retail chain CVS to “unlock the condoms.” The argument is that, when these stores lock up the condoms in a special case, it creates barriers to access and gets in the way of people acting responsibly. Yes, ideally we’re all comfortable asking for help with access to condoms and store staff are professional and helpful and don’t tell our mamas in our small towns about it, but we don’t live in an ideal world.
Cure CVS and Amplify have examples of the campaigns directed at CVS, which Feministing and others have al...
Source: Women's Health News - November 4, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Contraception Infectious Diseases Sex & Sex Education condoms Kroger Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, Monday Style – 11/2/09Email this article to a colleague.
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For at least part of the past weekend, I was busy attending the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association’s annual conference in Memphis, TN, so the round-up is a bit delayed. A few things that caught my eye over the past week:
Meharry Medical College in Nashville got a big grant to fund research in women’s health, eliminating cancer disparities and HIV/AIDS.
A new edition of the Carnival Against Sexual Violence has been posted.
Mom’s Tinfoil Hat is talking about conscience clauses and their responsible application.
The National Women’s Law Center is doing a “Women’s Day of Action fo...
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ken draper, citywatch-LA: carmen trutanich, LA city atty — buffoon or bully? (2047)Email this article to a colleague.
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Is LA’s City Attorney a Wolf in Loose Cannon Clothes?
CityWatch
By Ken Draper
Oct 30, 2009
So what are we to think of our Carmen Trutanich? Is the City’s attorney a sad buffoon or a wonderful, much needed, City Hall bully?
As has become the case in this considerably divided national and local political climate, the answer to who won the game depends on which side of the field the fans are sitting. As a society we’ve become quite good at defending … making excuses for … the foolish performances of those we blindly support. Such is the case these days with LA’s heat-seeking and controversial City Attorney. A bu...
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kim landers, the world today, ABC news australia: US officials vow crackdown on medical cannabis (2046)Email this article to a colleague.
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US vows
crackdown on
medical marijuana
By Kim Landers for
The World Today,
ABC news australia
Fri Oct 30, 2009
Audio: LA officials to clean up the joint(The World Today)
Officials in the United States are vowing to crack down on medical marijuana facilities even as the Obama administration signals a new hands-off policy on the drug.
Los Angeles officials have been agonising for two years over a move to introduce what they call sensible guidelines to help regulate the booming industry.
In the US, 14 states have laws allowing the use of medical marijuana, but no state has gone further than California and no city has gone fu...
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Except for the first paragraph, which I wrote, this letter is available for you to cut and paste here at http://www.essentialmedicine.org/add-your-voice/camr/
Don’t worry about the October 23 deadline having passed. The bill is only at the committee stage.
Here’s my letter:
Dear Legislator,
As a Canadian living with HIV for the last 20 years I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
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towleroad: obama signs ryan white CARE act extension, lifts HIV travel & immigration ban (2045)Email this article to a colleague.
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Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act Signed into Law
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT SIGNING OF THE RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS TREATMENT EXTENSION ACT OF 2009a
Diplomatic Reception Room 11:58 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody.
AUDIENCE: Good morning.
THE PRESIDENT: We often speak about AIDS as if it’s going on somewhere else. And for good reason — this is a virus that has touched lives and decimated communities around the world, particularly in Africa. But often overlooked is the fact that we face a serious HIV/AIDS epidemic of our own — right here in Washington, D.C., and right here in the Unit...
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chris johnson, southern voice: obama to sign 4-year ryan white CARE act reauthorization friday (2044)Email this article to a colleague.
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Obama to sign Ryan White reauthorization Friday
Measure would provide funds for an additional four years
By CHRIS JOHNSON
Oct 29 2009
President Obama plans to sign into law on Friday a reauthorization of funds under the Ryan White Care Act, according to Shin Inouye, a White House spokesperson.
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 would provide funding for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS for an additional four years.
First enacted in 1990, the Ryan White Care Act is the nation’s largest federally funded program for people living with HIV/AIDS and is designed to assist low-income patients who are...
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kearns to speak at LMU panel about online journalism & blogging nov. 18 (2043)Email this article to a colleague.
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ONLINE JOURNALISM &
BLOGGING AS A
PROFESSION
Wednesday,
Nov. 18, 2009
4:30pm
English Dept.
University
Hall 3226
Loyola
Marymount
University
Featuring
Siel
Environmental Activist &
Founder of Green LA Girl Blog
http://greenlagirl.com/
Richard Kearns
Blogger & Activist,
HIV/AIDS issues
http://aids-write.org
http://havvacc.wordpress.com
Simon Samano
Associate Editor, NFL.com
http://www.nfl.com/
Sponsored by the LMU English Department • Refreshments will be served
For more info, contact Molly Youngkin, 310-568-6226
DIRECTIONS TO LMU
We will be meeting in University Hall 3226, which is at the east end of t...
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tradingmarkets.com: sam farr (D-CA 17th) introduces medical cannabis “truth in trials act” (hr3939) (2042)Email this article to a colleague.
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Farr Introduces Medical Marijuana Fair Trial Bill
Wed. October 28, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Sam Farr on Tuesday introduced legislation that would allow individuals accused of violating federal marijuana laws to offer evidence in federal court that their use of medical marijuana followed state medical marijuana laws.
Rep. Farr introduced the bill, called the Truth in Trials Act, in the wake of a recent directive from the Justice Department telling federal prosecutors not to prosecute individuals who are following state medical marijuana laws. The bill would codify legal protections for defendants caught between...
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john richardson, esquire: medical cannabis in LA — “every last ridiculous loophole” (2041)Email this article to a colleague.
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One City’s Insane Fight Against Obama’s Sane New Pot Policy
The administration has officially put a stop to crackdowns on the medical-marijuana business, but to hear the dispensers tell it, nothing’s stopping Los Angeles from finding every last ridiculous loophole
By John H. Richardson
October 27, 2009
Two years ago, in the throes of a Bush administration that disregarded states’ rights whenever it felt like getting high on itself, there were fewer than two hundred medical-marijuana outlets in Los Angeles. Today, even the most conservative estimates say that number has quadrupled. On one stretch ...
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LA independent: CA NORML asserts ban of medical cannabis dispensaries would cost city millions (2040)Email this article to a colleague.
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POT GROUP: BANNING MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES WOULD COST L.A. MILLIONS
Story Published: Oct 25, 2009
Los Angeles’ proposed medical marijuana ordinance, which would outlaw the sale of pot at dispensaries, would cost the city $36 million to $74 million in lost sales taxes, a marijuana advocacy group asserted Sunday.
Under the proposed ordinance, only nonprofit medical marijuana collectives — groups of qualified patients and their primary caregivers — would be allowed to cultivate the drug to relieve pain from serious illnesses.
According to the California chapter of the National Organization for the Re...
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john hoeffel, latimes: defacto medical cannabis ban could come before council early nov. (2039)Email this article to a colleague.
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Los Angeles could act on medical pot in early November
A proposal to ban all sales of medical marijuana in the city is unlikely to be taken up next week.
Aides to Councilman Smith say he supports it and
believes it would force most dispensaries to close.
By John Hoeffel
October 23, 2009
The Los Angeles City Council moved Thursday to consider a controversial medical marijuana ordinance in early November, as a poll released by a national organization that supports marijuana legalization found that more than three-quarters of voters in the county want dispensaries regulated, not prosecuted and closed.
FOR THE RECORD:
Medic...
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jules levin, NATAP: report spread of resistant HIV stabilizes in europe (2038)Email this article to a colleague.
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In conclusion, the prevalence of overall transmitted resistance among patients in Europe in whom HIV‐1 infection was newly diagnosed was found to be stabilizing under 10%. Concomitantly, transmitted NRTI resistance also seems to be stabilizing, whereas transmitted NNRTI and PI resistance decreased over time. Subtype B infection was the strongest predictor of transmission of resistance.
Results.
In total, 2793 patients with newly diagnosed HIV‐1 infection met the predefined inclusion criteria: they were HIV‐1 drug naive, were >18 years old, provided a sample for genotypic analysis within 6 months after diagnosis, a...
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Women’s Health Week at Vanderbilt – Day 3, Tennessee Women’s HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yesterday I was able to attend another presentation as part of Vanderbilt’s Women’s Health Week, featuring Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice and Dr. Gloria Richard-David of Meharry Medical College and Dr. Katherine Harmann of Vanderbilt who conducted a panel discussion on the state of women’s health in Tennessee. They centered the discussion around their collaborative work on the 2009 Tennessee Women’s Health Report Card, which I’ve posted about previously. Briefly, the report characterizes the health status of women in the state on measures such as cause of death, STIs, and reproductive health, compari...
Source: Women's Health News - October 29, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
At Our Bodies Our Blog: ePatients, Cancer Screening, Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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At Our Bodies Our Blog, I have recent posts on ePatients and participatory medicine, and on revisiting breast cancer screening guidelines. C also has something on U.S. healthcare myths and facts and health reform.
Posted in Access, Rights, & Choice, Boobs, Cancer, Government, News Round-Ups (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - October 29, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Boobs Cancer Government News Round-Ups breast cancer healthcare Source Type: blogs
Letting People Read LettersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions.
It’s wonderful to see the law doing the right thing! (Source: NTs Are Weird)
Source: NTs Are Weird - October 28, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Joel Tags: Access Advocacy Source Type: blogs
No Spinning Lights For YOU!Email this article to a colleague.
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If you’re in the Fort Worth, Texas area and you call an ambulance for your influenza symptoms, your ride to the hospital may not have the red spinning lights on it.
In order to respond to the threefold increase in ambulance calls from patients with influenza-like symptoms, Medstar Ambulance Service is considering a change in policy where patients are evaluated after a call and then told that they “don’t need to go to the hospital.” If the patients still insist on transport, they won’t be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Instead, Medstar will arrange a taxi ride – and not necessarily t...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - October 28, 2009 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Access to Care Policy Source Type: blogs
Kudos on the Annual Women’s Health Week Service DayEmail this article to a colleague.
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So often in topics of women’s health and reproductive rights the things I’m compelled to write about are the negatives, the bad news, the absolute outrages. Today I want to take a moment to give kudos to some individuals who are taking actions to make a difference. I mentioned in the previous post that it’s Women’s Health Week at Vanderbilt (my larger workplace). I learned, at the event I attended, that the week will cap off with a day of service at the Shade Tree Clinic in Nashville, and think this effort from Vanderbilt medical students and their supporters deserves recognition. Note that they are...
Source: Women's Health News - October 27, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Cancer Vaginas & Vulvas Women's Health Nashville Source Type: blogs
Women’s Health Week at Vanderbilt – Day One: Women on WavesEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 25-31 is Women’s Health Week at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and a series of lectures have been planned to raise awareness on a variety of women’s health topics.
Today I had the pleasure of attending the lecture by Diana Whitten, filmmaker, whose current project is a film called “Vessel” which documents the work of the Women on Waves project. I was passingly familiar with Women on Waves before today, a project in which a ship chartered in The Netherlands (where abortion is legal) travels to countries where abortion is illegal and takes women out into international waters to receive me...
Source: Women's Health News - October 26, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Events & Observances Women's Health Nashville Tennessee video Women on Waves Source Type: blogs
change clocks back to standard time halloween night / nov. 1 (2037)Email this article to a colleague.
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Hot man uncovered as clocks go back
chers—
evidently they doit a week earlier in great britain.
namaste
—rk
http://www.be-selfish.co.uk/ A cheeky reminder that the clocks are going back on October 25th, one thats sure to help you and your friends remember… Brilliant little reminder at a time of year … (Source: aids-write.org)
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kearns, havvacc: 8 posts on HIV/AIDS & H1N1 (2036)Email this article to a colleague.
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eight posts on HIV/AIDS & H1N1 at http://HAVVACC.wordpress.com (the HIV/AIDS volunteer virtual assisted care community)
weho news: free flu shots tuesday by cedars (056)
cdc recommendations for HIVers (full text) (055)
about.com — difference between seasonal & swine flus (054)
AIDS-meds no evidence HIV worsens H1N1 severity (053)
natap-sickest H1N1 patients have comorbidities (052)
weho news – michael mooney on vaccine drawbacks (051)
wikipedia: 1918 flu epidemic (050)
cdc swine flu social media toolkit (049)
namaste
—rk (Source: aids-write.org)
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I’m biased, of course, but there’s lots of good stuff at Our Bodies Our Blog (as usual!), including a guest piece from OBOS intern Meg Young on sex education and the UU program on the topic, Our Whole Lives.
Order your free 2010 women’s health calendar (in English or Spanish) from the National Women’s Health Information Center.
Amie at RH Reality Check has a piece on preexisting condition exclusions women sometimes face from health insurance companies.
Arts4Choice uses photographs and sound “to show Canadians that women who have had abortions are their mothers, sisters, neighbours and friend...
Source: Women's Health News - October 25, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Boobs Cancer Free Stuff Infectious Diseases Menstruation Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy Sex & Sex Education Abortion breast cancer flu health care reform HHS LGBT Source Type: blogs
brian doherty, kcet’s city of angels blog: LA medical cannabis — things fall apart (2035)Email this article to a colleague.
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City of Angles
L.A. Medical
Marijuana Scene
in Tumult
By Brian Doherty
October 22, 2009 8:57 AM
The medical marijuana scene in Los Angeles gets more uncertain, with judges knocking down the existing moratorium, the city attorney threatening a severe crackdown, and the city council ready to act on a new wave of restrictions.
First on the court action, from the L.A. Times account:
A Superior Court judge concluded today that Los Angeles’ moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries is invalid and granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the ban sought by a dispensary that had sued the city.
Judge Jame...
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john hoeffel, LAnow: most LA voters support medical cannabis dispensaries (2034)Email this article to a colleague.
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LAnow
Medical marijuana poll:
Most L.A. voters support dispensaries
by John Hoeffel
October 22, 2009 | 10:00 am
More than three-quarters of the voters in Los Angeles County want to see medical marijuana dispensaries regulated, rather than prosecuted and forced to close, according to a poll released today by a national organization that supports marijuana legalization.
The poll, completed Monday and Tuesday, also found that 74% support the state’s medical marijuana law, while 54% want to see marijuana legalized, regulated and taxed.
The Marijuana Policy Project, based in Washington, D.C., commissioned the poll by an...
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john hoeffel, LAtimes: LA city council pressured to enact bad medical cannabis ordinance (2033)Email this article to a colleague.
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Los Angeles City Council to rush vote on medical pot law
The draft ordinance currently being urged would severely restrict the operations of medical marijuana dispensaries, which have exploded across the city in the absence of permanent regulation.
By John Hoeffel
October 20, 2009 | 10:25 p.m
With its moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries declared unlawful, the Los Angeles City Council is now poised to act quickly on a strict ordinance that it has struggled with fitfully for more than two years.
On Tuesday, the city attorney’s office delivered a draft that some members want the council to take up within a ...
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patrick range mcdonald & jill stewart, LA weekly: LA medical cannabis regulations come unraveled (2032)Email this article to a colleague.
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Medical Pot Is Bringing L.A. Together
In the increasingly acrimonious pot wars, all sides agree City Hall is incompetent
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD AND JILL STEWART
Published on October 21, 2009 at 5:04pm
When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant ruled on October 19 that the Los Angeles City Council’s two-year moratorium on medical-marijuana dispensaries was illegal, invalidating the ban, few legal experts seemed surprised — including City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, whose aide promptly admitted that the City Council had indeed been in the wrong.
The judge issued an injunction banning L.A. from enforcing i...
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