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  • Historic Med School Graduation in Cuba
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, Aug 23 (AIN) Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales
    said the first graduation of the Latin American Medical School
    in Havana will be engraved in history.
    The leader of the Movement for Socialism congratulated the Cuban
    government for the project, which celebrated its first
    graduating class of 1,610 last Saturday. He also praised the
    Venezuelan government for announcing that it would create a
    second such medical school and like the Cuban model, provide (…)

  • Iraq Dispatches: Urgent Humanitarian Crisis in Western Iraq
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is an appeal written by Iraqi Doctors concerning what is happening in western Iraq. It is both extremely informative as well as an important appeal. Operations in many of these areas are ongoing today, despite the fact that this press release is a week old:
    DOCTORS FOR IRAQ WARNS OF URGENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AS US/IRAQI MILITARY ATTACKS CONTINUE IN THE WEST OF IRAQ
    As US/ Iraqi military attacks continue in Haditha, Rawa, Parwana and Heet in the West of Iraq, Doctors for Iraq is (…)

  • HEALTH-CUBA: New Doctors Head Home to Aid Their Communities
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Patricia Grogg
    HAVANA, Aug 22 (IPS) - Some are leaving with jobs waiting for them at home, others will have to fight to have their degrees recognised, but all of them now face a unique challenge: to serve as living proof of the effectiveness of the cooperation project that made it possible for them to study medicine in Cuba.
    None of them is the same after having spent six years at the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana, where young people from low-income families in 28 (…)

  • Over 50,000 Venezuelans Have Eye Surgery in Cuba
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, Aug 21 (AIN) More than 50,400 Venezuelans have received eye surgery in Cuban hospitals, announced Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez during a radio and TV program aired on Sunday from Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
    Both heads of state shared views on the Operation Milagro program, which will benefit 100,000 Venezuelans suffering from eye diseases this year alone and has been extended to citizens from other Latin American and Caribbean nations.
    Fidel Castro said that following an (…)

  • Junk Food Nation: Who’s to Blame for Childhood Obesity?
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gary Ruskin & Juliet Schor
    In recent months the major food companies have been trying hard to convince Americans that they feel the pain of our expanding waistlines, especially when it comes to kids. Kraft announced it would no longer market Oreos to younger children, McDonald’s promoted itself as a salad producer and Coca-Cola said it won’t advertise to kids under 12. But behind the scenes it’s hardball as usual, with the junk food giants pushing the Bush Administration to defend (…)

  • World Without Cancer
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    G. Edward Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease - like scurvy or pellagra - aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modern man’s diet. That substance is vitamin B17. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile.
    This story is not approved by orthodox medicine. The FDA, the AMA, and The American Cancer Society have labeled it fraud and quackery. Yet the evidence is clear that here, at last, is the final answer to (…)

  • Health lessons for Italians: eat 18 courses but forget the beach umbrella
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mick Hume
    ITALY IS another country, they do things differently there, to paraphrase L. P. Hartley. So you hope that a fortnight in the sun on the Riviera dei Fiori in Liguria will also mean a holiday from the stifling climate of “Don’t eat/drink/do that” back home. Even here, however, the dead hand of the EU-wide health and safety regime now seems to have la dolce vita within its grasp.
    For example, the Vietato Fumare signs are spreading everywhere, since smoking in public places was (…)

  • Depleted Uranium, Anthrax Vaccine & The Gulf War Syndrome, Part 1
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dr. James Howenstine
    More and more veterans have become chronically ill from a multitude of symptoms since the end of Gulf War I. For many years the U.S. government denied any responsibility for their mysterious symptoms. Only 7,035 men were injured in this war. A total of 580,400 soldiers served in the first Gulf War. By the end of 2000 325,000 of these troops had become disabled This means that 56 % of those who served in the first Gulf War were disabled within less than 10 years. (…)

  • After year 12, Allegra may face nursing home
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Adele Horin
    Eleven years ago, Allegra Milne-Salter’s uplifting story featured in the Herald. As a six-year-old with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, she had been accepted into mainstream classes at Kelso Public School, near Bathurst, as part of a new policy of inclusion.
    "She needs to be in the world, and the world needs her, too," her mother Sally said at the time.
    Now in year 12 at Kelso High School, Allegra is 17 and, like all "life skills" students, will finish school next month. (…)

  • Big Brother Wants To Be Diet Cop
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Big Brother Wants To Be Diet Cop Associated Press July 25, 2005 At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they willing to give up for a chance at better health?
    A century after New York became the first American city to track people with infectious diseases as a way to halt epidemics, officials (…)