Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to Be 'Fixed' - Allegra Ringo. When the police showed up, there were maybe 50 protesters, most of them Deaf, outside the Omni Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Officers stepped out of their squad cars — four in total — and spoke to the protesters through an American Sign Language interpreter. They soon left amicably, though, apparently having not found much that needed policing. The protesters were rallying against the Listening and Spoken Language Symposium, an annual event put on by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AGB). The symposium featured speakers, workshops, and product displays centered around the topic of, as you may have guessed, listening and spoken language. Many of the sponsors and exhibitors were affiliated with companies that sell cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that allow a Deaf or hard-of-hearing person to hear (to varying degrees).
The protesters were angry, but acting peacefully. The AGB has a complicated history with members of Deaf culture. Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness - Emily Esfahani Smith. Health People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money, Happy-People-Pills For All, and, for those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners. One of the consistent claims of books like these is that happiness is associated with all sorts of good life outcomes, including — most promisingly — good health.
Many studies have noted the connection between a happy mind and a healthy body — the happier you are, the better health outcomes we seem to have. But a new study, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges the rosy picture. ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America [A Frontline Film] American Dinosaurs: What's the Matter With Health Care and Education? - Marc Tucker. Welcome to America's biggest long-term challenge: Our medical and education industries are a two-headed hydra of economic inefficiency, over-eating our resources and under-serving our needy Reuters The problems with our nation's health care system are of course very different from the challenges facing our national education system.
But when you look under the hood, you could make a strong argument that the problems are actually very much the same. Consider the structure of American health care over the past few decades. One can think of it as serving four levels of clients: those with no insurance, those with Medicare or Medicaid, those with employer-provided insurance, and those wealthy enough to pay for all their health care services in cash, including concierge services.
Most of those who were uninsured went without any health care services much of the time. Now consider our public education system. Yet funding for our public education system works differently. So, what is to be done? Bayer and US Government Knowingly Gave HIV to Thousands of Children. By Matt Agorist REALfarmacy.com What if a company that you thought you could trust, knowingly sold you a medicine for your child that they knew had the potential to give your child HIV? How would you react? What if a government agency that claims the responsibility for protecting you from such treachery, not only looked the other way, but was complicit in this exchange? Everyone has heard of Bayer aspirin, it is a household name. In 1984 Bayer became aware that several batches of this Factor 8 contained HIV.
Unable to sell their Factor 8 in the US, Bayer, with the FDA’s permission, (yes that’s right, the FDA allowed Bayer to potentially kill thousands) sold this HIV infected medicine to Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore after February 1984, according to the documents obtained by the NY Times. The result of this sale of HIV tainted medication ended up infecting tens of thousands and killing thousands. Original Source of the article Image Credits.