Are you sick of being dumber as an adult than you were as a child? Researchers at SUNY are hard at work developing a simple steroid pill that will make your brain work like it did before you hit puberty and and every significant thought you had got drowned out in a sea of worrying about paying the bills and thinking about sex pretty much constantly. The potential is there to develop a pill that could ease the effect of stress on certain receptors in the brain, increase the ease with which adults and adolescents alike can learn languages and retain information. More importantly, it could improve spatial cognition skills and, thus, video game playing abilities. It will not, however, be enough to let you beat Contra with the Konami code. That shit is still straight up brutal, son.
Monday, March 22, 2010
March 21,2010 Will Live In Infamy
A letter to Washington.
A horrendous heinous act has been committed upon the population of the United States of America by the passing of the socialized welfare healthcare bill.
But for those that are ignorant, illadvised and easily led to the slaughter today was a blessed day. The feeling of great accomplishment and self-pride that finally something wonderful has come out of Washington will be water-cooler chatter for days.
There are those of us however that see this quite differently. I personally will wear out the soles of my shoes, run my gas tank dry, blister my phone dialing finger, speak until I go hoarse and whatever else it takes to campaign for those who were brave enough to stand firm against the pressure and vote with common sense and intelligence. To those who caved in giving away my freedom to make my own personal choices concerning healthcare I will fight with all I have to see that they feel the sting of my vote.
Washington, you have gone too far this time.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Downsizer D.C.
Will your doctor quit his or her practice? See the sample letter below to get an idea of what the chances may be . .
Congressional leaders want to hold their vote on the health care bill soon. This means that, tedious though it may be, we must continue doing the following . . .
1. If your House Rep is a Democrat, and you haven’t called this week to tell him or her to oppose the health care bill, please do so today. We got numerous reports, yesterday, that the Capitol lines were ringing busy. That’s a very good sign.
2. If you haven’t yet asked a friend to use our system to send Congress a letter, please do so today. You can forward them this message.
3. Send another letter of your own.
You can borrow from the following sample letter, or copy all of it . . .
Please pay attention to the survey of doctors conducted by the Medicus Firm: http://www.themedicusfirm.com/pages/medicus-media-survey-reveals-impact-health-reform
* Nearly one-third of physicians may leave medicine if the health care bill passes
* Over 50% predict the bill will cause the quality of medical care to deteriorate
* 40.7% stated it would “decline or worsen somewhat,” while another 14.4% stated that the quality of medical care would “decline or worsen dramatically”.
Please pay attention. The evidence is everywhere. Nearly everyone hates this bill. Kill it! Do it now! Do it with extreme prejudice.
You can send your letter using DownsizeDC.org’s Educate the Powerful System.
When you do so you’ll see your House Rep’s number, so you can follow up with a phone call.
Please also get friends to send letters opposing this bill. Time is short.
Thank you for your support, and please also consider making a contribution to expand our reach.
Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.
HT: Carpe Diem blog
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Alpharma/King to pay big fine – American pharmaceutical manufacturer Alpharma Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations in connection with the marketing of the morphine-based drug, Kadian, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement resolves allegations that, between January 1, 2000 and December 29, 2008, Alpharma paid health care providers to induce them to promote or prescribe Kadian, and made misrepresentations about the safety and efficacy of the drug, which is used to treat chronic moderate to severe pain. Alpharma is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bristol, Tenn.-based King Pharmaceuticals Inc…more
Don’t go buying Lilly drugs on the street corner – In a departure from the recent M.O. of in-transit drug cargo thefts, emboldened thieves hit Eli Lilly’s 70,000-square-foot east coast distribution facility in Enfield, CT. And they hit it hard: $70 million to $75 million worth of Prozac, Cymbalta and Zyprexa–enough to fill a large trailer, according to press reports…more
More and more scripts going unfilled.
Preventing diabetes with drugs – very hard questions being asked.
The interesting background story on new drug Xiaflex (NY Times) – It took half a century. But a tiny drug maker on Long Island has finally found a potentially lucrative use for its only medicine: straightening clenched fingers. And, if research proves successful, treating a condition that causes bent penises…more
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Bare chested
Lately I’ve been mesmerised by the bouncing breasts of women in the street. Young women. Old women. Fat women. Skinny women. Living where I do, they’re usually all quite prominent. If you catch me staring, sighing wistfully…it’s not what you think.
I have a scar on my chest.
It is not brave.
It does not remind me of a battle from which I came through better on the other side.
It is not stern reminder of the time I cheated death with a melanoma.
It sits between my 3rd intercostals as a 2cm x 0.5cm reddish flat reminder of that time a few months ago when I went to a GP who removed the small inflamed pea-sized keratin cyst that had been ‘annoying’ me.
How’s that for an awesome conversation starter?
“Hey, cool scar!”
“Yeah I had an inflamed keratin cyst and it had to be removed. So…um…I got it removed. Yeah.”
“Oh”
I didn’t occur to me that I would have a scar, or how I would react. In a stupid self indulgent way I feel like I can now identify a little more with patients worried about scarring. Sure, mine is not classified as ‘disfiguring’ but it prevents me from wearing 70% of my previous wardrobe. It has me staring lustfully at other women’s breasts in shopping centres thinking “that 85 yr old is rocking her cleavage *sigh*”
I’m a little ashamed at how much of my identity was apparently linked to my percieved ability to wear low cut tops. I’m ashamed at how much of my thought-time has been taken up by wondering if people can notice I’m wearing foundation on my chest, if I do venture out in something that bares below the angle of Louis.
I’m ashamed, especially since this week we’re looking at breast pathology. So, one day, we’ll be able to differentiate carcinomas, benign tumours and mastitis etcetera. We’ll treat women who are dealing with the loss of a whole breast, both or worse. Women who would trade their metastatic disease in an instant for a measly little scar.
Robbin’s sure does know how to bring you down to earth.