Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock antibiotics and superbugs. How does the livestock industry talk about antibiotics? Well, it depends on who’s doing the talking, but they all say some version of the same thing. Take the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; they say there is “no conclusive scientific evidence indicating the judicious use of antibiotics in cattle herds leads to antimicrobial resistance in humans [MRSA].” Or Ron Phillips of the Animal Health Institute (a drug-industry front group). In an interview on Grist last year, he said that before you can draw any conclusions: … You have to look at specific bug/drug combinations and figure out what are the potential pathways for antibiotic-resistant material to transfer from animals to humans.
Studies have been done, and have come to the conclusion that there is a vanishingly small level of risk. The message is clear. Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a smoking gun! The superbug at issue is a strain known as “pig MRSA,” or ST398. Scientists now have. For Grace | How You Can Support CA Pain Bill AB 369 Sponsored by For Grace. ***AB 369 - October 1st, 2012*** Contact: John Garrett (818) 760-7635jgarrett@forgrace.org For Grace-Sponsored Legislation Would Have Limited Practice of Step Therapy; Ensured that Millions of Californians with Chronic Pain Could Access Critical Treatments LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2012) – For Grace, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the ethical and equal treatment of all women in pain, today expressed its profound disappointment that California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed AB 369, a landmark health bill that would have provided relief to millions of California chronic pain sufferers.
Authored by Assembly Member Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) and sponsored by For Grace, AB 369 would have prohibited California health plans from requiring pain patients to try and fail on more than two treatments before allowing the patient access to the pain treatment originally prescribed by their doctor. “This is terribly disappointing. According to the U.S. Problem: Solution: State bill brings pain sufferers faster relief. Photo: Thomas Levinson, The Chronicle Debbie Klee-Yokum shows some left over bottles of pain medication she used to use to manage her chronic pain at her home in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, February 25, 2011. Debbie Klee-Yokum went through "step therapy" in order to get her chronic pain under control, and after dozens of prescription trials with little success of pain management she found success through meditation, relaxation and empowering her mind to control the pain. less Debbie Klee-Yokum shows some left over bottles of pain medication she used to use to manage her chronic pain at her home in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, February 25, 2011.
Debbie Klee-Yokum went through "step ... more Debbie Klee-Yokum went through "step therapy" in order to get her chronic pain under control, and after dozens of prescription trials with little success of pain management she found success through meditation, relaxation and empowering her mind to control the pain. Fighting many battles Dr. Dr. Mom's Clean Air Force Twitter Party RSVP. What Doctors Don't Know About Pain. USDA moves to let Monsanto perform its own environmental impact studies on GMOs. TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests | Threat Level. The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results. The TSA, which has deployed at least 500 body scanners to at least 78 airports, said Tuesday the machines meet all safety standards and would remain in operation despite a “calculation error” in safety studies.
The flawed results showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected. At least one flier group, the Association for Airline Passenger Rights, is urging the government to stop using the $180,000 machines that produce a virtual-nude image of the body until new tests are concluded in May. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has been a loud voice opposing the machines. Last week, it urged a federal appeals court to stop using them until further health studies were conducted.
Still, the government said the results proved the safety of the devices. See Also: Health | Data.gov Communities. SMArt Prize for Patients, Physicians, and Researchers. Stages of grieving online : Sarah Granger : City Brights. On Christmas Day a few years back, I was trolling Facebook, tired, stuffed, looking for some amusing posts from friends, and I saw the terrible news: one of my grade school classmates lost her husband on Christmas Eve.
Suicide. At first, I thought to myself “how could she put something so tragic and utterly personal on Facebook?” But then I saw the comments. Dozens of people had rallied behind her, supporting her in her darkest hour of need. Last summer, one of my blogger friends lost her mother quite suddenly. Stage 1 – Do Nothing Through the fog of emotion, I didn’t want to believe it. Stage 2 – E-mail and the Inner Circle I paced around the house nervously for a while, talked on the phone with family members for many hours, and finally, I had to decide how to share the news with others. Stage 3 – Facebook Status Pretty soon, somebody had sent a condolence note with an @sairy in the clear, and I knew it wouldn’t be long before it was on my Facebook page.
Stage 4 – The Wall Stage 7 – Blog. Report from Massachusetts Health IT forum. 'No fish left behind' approach leaves Earth with nowhere left to fish, study finds. Earth has run out of room to expand fisheries, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researchers that charts the systematic expansion of industrialized fisheries. In collaboration with the National Geographic Society and published in the online journal PLoS ONE, the study is the first to measure the spatial expansion of global fisheries.
It reveals that fisheries expanded at a rate of one million sq. kilometres per year from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. The rate of expansion more than tripled in the 1980s and early 1990s -- to roughly the size of Brazil's Amazon rain forest every year. Between 1950 and 2005, the spatial expansion of fisheries started from the coastal waters off the North Atlantic and Northwest Pacific, reached into the high seas and southward into the Southern Hemisphere at a rate of almost one degree latitude per year. Meanwhile, less than 0.1 per cent of the world's oceans are designated as marine reserves that are closed to fishing. Presidential Order Balances Security and Scientific Enterprise | Posted by Peter Emanuel on July 02, 2010 at 04:25 PM EDT Today the President signed an Executive Order that, when implemented by the relevant Departments and agencies, will help the United States achieve a crucial balance between two goals that are sometimes seen as being in conflict: Increasing the Nation’s defenses against the threat of biological weapons and reducing the hurdles that legitimate scientists face as they pursue research on potentially dangerous microbes.
This Executive Order is the product of an intensive collaboration that has been going on over the past year under the leadership of OSTP and the National Security Staff. It simplifies and harmonizes a number of earlier efforts to achieve the right balance between the risks and benefits of scientific research on some of the world’s most dangerous infectious agents and toxins. It recognizes that access to these materials and the rules for handling them need to be carefully regulated. The Health 2.0 Dev Challenge.