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Officially retired this week
As usual nothing to say due to the ever deepening depression I'm in the midst of. My 66th birthday came and went last week. I have not celebrated birthdays for quite a few years now, it's just another day. Here's this week's long list of annoying diversions (at least to liberals and marxists annotying), but ask me if I care, f. them. 5 Things No One Tells You About the Military Industrial Complex 7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They Do Not Want You To Know 75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police A Jew Rejects Talmud's Duplicity...
Source: Nightmare Hall - Welcome to my nightmare - May 26, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/how-drug-companies-keep-medicine-out-of-reach/275853/?ReutersFor almost a decade, the United States has been standing in the way of an idea that could lead to cures for some of the world's most devastating illnesses. The class of maladies is known as neglected diseases, and they almost exclusively affect those in the developing world. The same idea, if realized, might also be used in more affluent nations to goad the pharmaceutical industry into producing critical innovations that the free market has yet to produce - things like new antibiotics, which are likely to be used ...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Six Arguments For the Elimination of Cigarettes
Prohibition and the “tobacco control endgame.” Despite all our efforts in recent years to reduce the percentage of Americans who smoke cigarettes—currently about one in five—the idea of full-blown cigarette prohibition has not gained much traction. That may be changing, as prominent nicotine researchers and public police officials start thinking about what is widely referred to as the “tobacco control endgame.” Considering the new regulatory powers given the FDA under the terms of the Tobacco Control Act of 2009, as a commentary in Tobacco Control framed it, “will the government be a facilitator or barrie...
Source: Addiction Inbox - May 14, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 13th 2013
In this study we used the hMTH1-Tg mouse model to investigate how oxidative damage to nucleic acids affects aging. hMTH1-Tg mice express high levels of the hMTH1 hydrolase that degrades 8-oxodGTP and 8-oxoGTP and excludes 8-oxoguanine from both DNA and RNA. Compared to wild-type animals, hMTH1-overexpressing mice have significantly lower steady-state levels of 8-oxoguanine in both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of several organs, including the brain. hMTH1 overexpression prevents the age-dependent accumulation of DNA 8-oxoguanine that occurs in wild-type mice. These lower levels of oxidized guanines are associated with in...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Scoring Immigration Reform Correctly
Alex Nowrasteh Word is our pro-free-market brethren at the Heritage Foundation will release a new study on the fiscal impact of immigration reform in time for the congressional debate. It will be an update to a 2007 study that played a key role in derailing immigration reform then. While the 2007 study was influential, it was fatally flawed, as I detail here.  Hopefully Heritage’s updated version will correct for those criticisms and others, or else its analysis must be judged as lacking.  The key flaw in Heritage’s 2007 study is its use of static fiscal scoring, rather than dynamic fiscal scoring, to evalua...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

Drug donations are great, but should Big Pharma be setting the agenda?
Monday 29 April 2013 12.01 BST Critics fear that giving out free medicines allows pharmaceutical companies to decide which diseases are treated Vaccine donations might end after a period of time, leaving governments to pick up the bill. Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images Adam Robert Green for African Arguments, part of the Guardian Africa Network In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generi...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 30, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Guest Blogger: Grace Quantock on Relaxation Rehabilitation, Part 2
The Great Big Fear Illness can be uncomfortable and messy. Rest can seem boring. Before I reframed my thinking, when I was resting I felt sick. I had to rest, I could not carry on with whatever activity I was doing. I came face to face with the reality of the sickness. We get scared, and we are scared of losing dignity, life, hope, purpose, independence, and respect. And yet we are overcoming that fear every day we live with illness, or that we live as a survivor of illness. We are so much more, because of overcoming all this, not less. The fact that we are still managing to keep on even with the struggles, the pain, the u...
Source: Bah! to cancer - April 24, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: wellbeing grace quantock guest blogger Source Type: blogs

My Sonic Hedgehog
My dad loves a good deal. When he saw that an Alexandria Chevrolet dealership was offering $4,000 for any trade-in—four times the value of my 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier—he lit up and emailed me the offer. “Cash for clunkers is back!” I said. I gave my dad the green light to work his negotiating magic on my behalf for a new 2013 Sonic LTZ turbo. Apparently he is a wizard: Trade-in: $4,000 Random rebates: $1,000 Taxes, tags, fees and destination charge: $0 My parents letting me use their GM MasterCard rewards: $2,500 Estimated drive-away price without discounts: $22,500; my drive-away price: $15,000. I thought back...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - April 17, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: living habits economics family Source Type: blogs

The Very Last Word At Dr. J's Housecalls: An Exchange Of Correspondence Between Steven Eblin, CEO of Randolph Hospital, And Dr. Mary Johnson, Homegrown Pediatrician From Asheboro - Who Wants To Come Home - Indeed, Who Never Wanted To Leave
On Friday morning, Buzz-Armfield-of-the-Asheboro-Armfields dropped 75 cents on a Greensboro News & Record so that I could read all about Edward Cone-of-the-Moses-Cone-Hospital-Cones putting down Word Up (his personal blog).Ironically, you could not read the article in its entirety online.  And, as of today, the story has no comments.  It was a fitting last nail in the coffin of the notion of "citizen journalism" that brought me to the blogosphere in 2005.I had my say on Ed's departure on Facebook.  After so many words on Word Up - which, as far as I can tell, made no real difference in anything, Ed final...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 24, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs

The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments
A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go wrong when corporations provide direct care to vulnerable patients.  In this case, the vulnerable patients had cancer, and the corporation that provided them care was the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA).  I will try to go through the case chronologically.As Rueters reported, CTCA "was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Stephenson, who has been chairman ever since."The Founder's Checkered PastA Misdemeanor As Reuters noted,A graduate of Northwestern University Law Schoo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception crime marketing Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital systems complementary/ alternative medicine Source Type: blogs

The Morning Flap: February 27, 2013
These are my news headlines for February 26th through February 27th: Detained immigrants released; officials cite sequester cuts – Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released “several hundred” immigrants from deportation centers across the country, saying the move is an effort to cut costs ahead of budget cuts due to hit later this week.Announcing the news Tuesday, ICE officials said that the immigrants were released under supervision and continue to face deportation. After reviewing hundreds of cases, those released were considered low-risk and “noncriminal,” officials said.The releases took...
Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - February 27, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Pinboard Links The Morning Flap Barack Obama Bob Woodward Chris Christie Club For Growth Delicious Links GOP Guns Hispanics immigration Obamacare Rick Perry Sequester Sequestration Texas Source Type: blogs

Hopeful Breast Cancer news
While breast cancer is generally pretty treatable (given early detection and regular exams), some forms of the disease are especially pernicious. Now, the Feds have "approved a new "smart bomb" drug ... that can help women with one of the most hard-to-cure types of breast cancer."Called Kadcyla, it attacks HER2-positive form of breast cancer; it's not necessarily a cure, but it does appear to add several months to victims' lives. It's actually a hybrid, combining an older drug (Herceptin) with the powerful chemo med DM1.Does it work as advertised?You be the judge:"In a trial of 991 women with advanced HER2 breast cancer, t...
Source: InsureBlog - February 22, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs

Cleaning out the inbox
I've gotten a couple of press releases lately, which I usually ignore because I don't like to be told what to write about, if you know what I mean, but these I do commend to your attention.This Time Magazine article by Steven Brill has gotten some coverage in the blogosphere, but it won't hurt to link it here as well. The general idea is that hospitals and other health care provider institutions don't tell you ahead of time what prices they will charge, and a lot of those prices end up looking totally outrageous. They also vary enormously, and seemingly arbitrarily. Insurance companies, which you would think would have a l...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… The Weekend Nears
And so, another working week is about to draw to a close. We can hardly believe it. Nonetheless, this is an opportunity to daydream about weekend plans, and this will be a long weekend, given the presidential holiday on this side of the pond. Our agenda, as always, is rather modest. We hope to spend time with our short people and Mrs. Pharmalot, catch an absorbing picture show and maybe nap a little bit. What about you? Anything special planned? How about visiting a library for a book, while both still exist? You could get a head start on your taxes. After all, there is that debt to pay down. Or maybe this is a chance to c...
Source: Pharmalot - February 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized AssuraMed AstraZeneca Cardinal Health Eisai FDA Gaucher GlaxoSmithKline Hip Implants HIV JJ Johnson & Johnson Mylan Laboratories Orphan Drugs Prescription Drug Shortages RNL Bio Sanofi Sreoquel Stem Cells Source Type: blogs

Sunlight Before Signing in Obama's First Term
Jim Harper “Sunlight Before Signing” was President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to put all bills Congress sent him online for five days before signing them. It was a measurable promise that I’ve monitored here since the beginning of his first term, and I will continue to do so in his second. It was the president’s first broken promise, and in the first year he broke it again with almost every new law, giving just six of the first 124 bills he signed the exposure he promised. With his first term concluded last month, we can now assess how well the president did with Sunlight Before Signing. Complianc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Source Type: blogs