Archive for the 'Health' Category
And Now… Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card
March 24th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: Wired: Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another […]
March 23: This Day in History
March 24th, 2010Here’s an interesting coincidence: March 23, 1933: Germany: The Enabling Act Via: Wikipedia: The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was passed by Germany’s Reichstag and signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step, after the Reichstag Fire Decree, through which Chancellor Adolf Hitler legally obtained plenary powers and […]
FDA Attempting to Determine Why GlaxoSmithKline Rotavirus Vaccine Contains a Pig Virus Called Porcine Circovirus 1
March 23rd, 2010Update: It’s One Million Children in the U.S. Alone, 30 MILLION Worldwide Via: CNN: Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was approved by the FDA in 2008. The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, Hamburg said. About 1 million children […]
U.S. Health Care Open Thread
March 22nd, 2010Let it rip, if you feel the need. Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. House passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the rules governing medical industries and ensuring that tens of millions of uninsured Americans will get medical coverage.
Ex-Pfizer Worker Cites Genetically Engineered Virus In Lawsuit Over Firing
March 18th, 2010Via: Hartford Courant: Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise questions about safety practices in the dynamic field of genetic engineering. Organizations involved in […]
Britain: Clinic Opens for Children Addicted to Video Games and the Internet
March 18th, 2010Via: Times Online: Doctors claim to have opened the first dedicated clinic in Britain to treat children addicted to video games and other technology. Capio Nightingale Hospital, a private facility in Central London, introduced the service after calls from parents concerned about their children’s use of games, the internet, or mobile phones. A spokeswoman for […]
Thieves Grab Up to $75 Million in Eli Lilly Drugs
March 18th, 2010Maybe it’s just run of the mill theft. I don’t really know what else it could be… Lithium in Water ‘Curbs Suicide’ Future Wars ‘To Be Fought with Mind Drugs’ A vast array of pharmaceuticals have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of […]
Scientists Identify Opium Poppy Genes Responsible for the Production of Codeine and Morphine
March 15th, 2010Via: Independent: Scientists have identified the genes of the opium poppy responsible for the production of the painkillers codeine and morphine, which could lead to new ways of making the drugs without having to cultivate fields of poppies. Opium poppies naturally produce morphine and smaller amounts of codeine in their seed pods. They are collected […]
Air Quality Bad for 40 Percent of Americans
March 12th, 2010Via: Courthouse News: Despite drastic cuts in air pollution, more than 40 percent of Americans still live in areas with unacceptable air quality, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report released on Wednesday. Over the last three decades, the levels of core pollutants in the U.S. have been cut in half despite a 34 percent […]
CDC Uses Shopper-Card Data to Trace Salmonella
March 12th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time – the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries. With permission […]
