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7327. robertjayb - 5/9/2008 2:28:25 PM Bill Moyers' Journal
Friday, May 9,
The California Nurses Association's fight for universal health care; journalist Melody Petersen ("Our Daily Meds") on the pharmaceutical industry; British law professor Philippe Sands ("Torture Team").
7328. thoughtful - 5/14/2008 2:16:10 PM For other research I'm doing, I came across a couple of interesting charts from the CDC and the Health US document. I don't know how to post them here as they are power point slides.
Anyway, one showed the absolute dearth of ob-gyns in many regions of the country, especially in the midwest area. Just shocking.
The other showed rates of adult obesity and overweight. What I found interesting is over the past decades, the rate of overweight adults has been largely the same...its the rate of obesity that has shot up. 7329. judithathome - 5/14/2008 2:26:21 PM Is it possible to get pneumonia from stress? Ha! I started getting a tingly throat last Thursday on my way to the dentist and over the next few days, developed a deep cough. I chalked it up to allergies...lotsa pollen still around....and sinus drainage.
The cough has become so bad I have slept in the den the past two nights to avoid waking Keoni. This morning, when I woke up, I thought my lungs were going to explode from coughing so hard...productive cough but so violent, I got dry heaves.
I saw the doctor's assistant Monday about another matter and asked her about it...she agreed with my diagnosis and told me to take Zyrtec and Mucinex. I'm taking the latter but using a generic allergy concoction. But man, I felt wretched when I woke up.
I was also at the hospital a few days before the tingly throat...at the ER all day with my son. Maybe I picked up an exotic bug there... 7330. thoughtful - 5/14/2008 3:02:23 PM That doesn't sound good J@H. I'd get yourself checked out. While you can't catch pneumonia from stress, you can weaken your immune system which will make you and your lungs and sinuses more susceptible to pneumonia. And you can pick up all kinds of things in a hospital.
I always remember my SIL who went to PAs who told her to take all kinds of over the counter stuff for her "allergies". It wasn't until she went to a real doc that he ordered xrays right away and found her pleural effusion due to her lung cancer.
So naturally I'm more aware and sensitive to such things, so from my POV, no point screwing around. 7331. arkymalarky - 5/14/2008 3:25:35 PM Thoughtful is right about the stress/pneumonia thing, and you can get pneumonia from allergies that turn into infections that drain into your lungs, which happened to Bro. Zyrtec and Mucinex are my regular meds, plus Nasonex. The first two are otc now. 7332. judithathome - 5/14/2008 4:11:49 PM Well, if I feel like this tomorrow, I will go see the regular doc tomorrow afternoon or Friday. Since MediCare is paying for everything....ha! 7333. magoseph - 6/3/2008 2:29:19 AM 7334. wonkers2 - 6/3/2008 4:05:09 AM Touching. Thanks. How did the story end? 7335. magoseph - 6/3/2008 3:22:13 PM Here's Randy Pausch's Update page, Wonks 7336. David Ehrenstein - 6/9/2008 3:29:29 PM AIDS 7337. jexster - 6/10/2008 2:52:28 PM Adam and Steve Happier than Adam and Eve? 7338. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/20/2008 2:52:37 PM "I Speak Insurance . . ."
7339. David Ehrenstein - 6/25/2008 11:50:40 PM Hey guess what? The Lancet says not only is AIDS far from "over,"it hasn't even stabilized!
"Last week, at a press conference at the UN High-Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said that the number of new HIV infections per year in the USA was closer to 50000 than 40000. He told reporters: “In the United States we still have a significant problem…we have over 750000 AIDS cases…and over half a million deaths. The very disturbing aspect of the situation in the United States is that we have about 40 to 52000 new infections each year.” He said that this level of new infections had stayed the same for the past 14 years and that the USA had hit a wall in not being able to get any lower.
Fauci's statements, reported by Reuters have caused uproar, because the 52000 figure he refers to has not yet been publicly released. AIDS campaigners have been calling for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to release the latest (2005) data for HIV incidence since last year. On Nov 26, 2007, the CDC issued a letter to advocacy groups, which stated that the information would be released in the “coming months”. The letter also stated that the data had been submitted to an academic journal for peer review and that the CDC anticipates publishing the new data in early 2008. Yet, as The Lancet went to press, nothing had been released.
What is more, when we contacted the NIAID and CDC, both said that Fauci had been talking about published data on the number of people diagnosed with HIV in 2006 but not necessarily infected that year. However, as the UN's webcast of the press conference shows, Fauci does not talk about diagnoses but new infections. He says that 52000 is a new number that will soon become an official statistic. He explains that the number does not mean that HIV incidence has increased but that new methodology being used by the CDC is producing a more accurate estimate.
Either way, the figure shows that US efforts to prevent HIV have failed dismally. The CDC must not fail US citizens further by delaying the release of the data behind this fact."
7340. wonkers2 - 6/30/2008 3:14:40 AM MRSA 7341. thoughtful - 7/2/2008 2:16:29 PM Hey Arky! Maybe all you need is some worms!
After Dr. Pritchard’s self-infection experiment, the National Health Services ethics committee let him conduct a study in 2006 with 30 participants, 15 of whom received 10 hookworms each. Tests showed that after six weeks, the T-cells of the 15 worm recipients began to produce lower levels of chemicals associated with inflammatory response, indicating that their immune systems were more suppressed than those of the 15 placebo recipients. Despite playing host to small numbers of parasites, worm recipients reported little discomfort.
Trial participants raved about their allergy symptoms disappearing. Word about the study soon appeared online among chronic allergy sufferers, and a Yahoo group on “helminthic therapy” sprung up. 7342. alistairconnor - 7/2/2008 3:22:36 PM And a tapeworm for weight loss? 7343. arkymalarky - 7/2/2008 9:46:52 PM Hey, and I can get that free around here--just stay barefoot outside!
I wonder if you could just eat anything you wanted if you had a tapeworm. Might cure bulemia. 7344. wonkers2 - 7/2/2008 10:11:58 PM I lost my virginity today without even being awake to enjoy it--my first and I hopw last colonoscopy. Fortunately no problems other than one small polyp. 7345. arkymalarky - 7/2/2008 10:38:03 PM Congrats, Wonk! Bob and his two best friends went through that for the first time this year (not together--they're not THAT close) and they all had good reports and no problems. 7346. Wombat - 7/3/2008 3:32:50 AM Preparing for a colonoscopy is much worse than the colonoscopy itself.
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