Yesterday afternoon a young fella in Darlinghurst hailed me for a roundabout fare. “First I need to drop some money off to my friend,” he requested, “then we’ll go to Central Station.” It was only when we arrived and he … Continue reading →

Drug rehab in California is no walk in the park. Some exclusive California drug rehab centers would have you believe that getting sober is simply a matter of enrolling in a private drug rehab program and then waiting to be … Continue reading →

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Adventures in healthcare (revisited) June 29th, 2008 The coming week is going to be, well, interesting for yours truly. Tuesday: Kidney stones blasted with sound waves. General anesthetic. Wednesday: Painful cyst removed from my wrist. Local anesthetic. Thursday: Gallbladder removal … Continue reading →

Jihad. We write it in capital letters. We argue over its definition. We place it on the same grandiose level as its perpetrators do. But Jihad is a very simple thing. It is the religious sanctification of the most cowardly … Continue reading →

I notice a bit of news recently from the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM). It seems that the EAASM reckons the parallel trade in drugs in the EU puts patients at risk… but there is world of … Continue reading →

(NaturalNews) There is no doubt that Americans are getting fatter. According to the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001 , 2004 indicates that approximately two thirds … Continue reading →

Exporting the Bloody Drug War to Mexico Posted by Bill Anderson at 01:12 PM It is not enough that the U.S. drug war has resulted in millions incarcerated, the explosion of no-knock police raids, and innocents killed and imprisoned in … Continue reading →

The American Lung Association commends members of the House of Representatives for their passage of the Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act today. As part of the overarching Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, the Pulmonary and Cardiac … Continue reading →

“Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. … Continue reading →