France has removed transsexualism from an official list of mental illnesses, according to an order issued by the French Ministry of Health reported Friday by French news media. The order issued Wednesday removed “gender identity disorders” from an article of the social security code related to “long-term psychiatric diseases.” According to media reports, France is the first country in the world to do so…[nytimes.com]
L’hebdomadaire haïtien, publié à New York avec l’aide de correspondants sur place, a réussi à boucler une édition spéciale consacrée au séisme du 12 janvier. “L’horreur et l’étendue de la destruction sismique sont insupportables, révoltantes même. Le peuple haïtien, qui a tant souffert ces six dernières années de l’inconscience et de la cupidité de ses dirigeants, ne méritait pas un tel cataclysme. Il nous faudra énormément de courage et de volonté pour surmonter cette cruelle adversité (…). Nous n’avons que nos mains nues et notre dignité de peuple pour reconstruire un pays physiquement détruit”, écrit-il en éditorial. A Port-au-Prince, les secours peinent toujours à s’organiser…[courrierinternational.com]
In recent years, American ideas about psychiatric disorders have spread around the globe. Is that really good for the world’s mental health? [nytimes.com]
© Alex Trochut
Doctors at the Royal St James Hospital in Swindon have admitted they were disappointed after an impromptu gig by pop star James Blunt failed to awaken 8-year old Kylie Taylor from a five day coma. Instead consultants believe that for two days afterwards she was even less responsive to stimuli and may have slipped deeper into unconsciousness… [newsbiscuit.com]
What is beautiful in life.
Today.
Rain.
Then.
12 months.
After that.
Supposed to be free.
What to do and not to do.
Feel better.
Day after day.
But.
Today.
Rain.
This is over.
It is all finished.
It still there something.
Forever.
Something.
Strong.
Real.
Intensive.
Ignition.
Aborted.
This is V.G. Therapy.
I loved it.
People with bipolar disorder are at risk for an array of fatal illnesses, according to a review of 17 studies involving more than 331,000 patients.
[nytimes.com]
A must read: “It should be possible to design drugs that block alcohol’s undesirable effects”
by Alison Motluk, 15 July 2006 [newscientist.com]
Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs that have the pharmacologicall actions of anxiolitics, sedatives, hipnotics, muscle relaxants and anticonvulsivants. Their clinical indication cannot be generalized but specified by each agent. >>>
By The Royal College of Psychiatrists…let’s do the test…
Bonnes nouvelles de l’OMS…vue par le Monde Diplomatique
Ce constat sans nuances n’émane pas d’une organisation marxiste orthodoxe, mais d’une étude détaillée sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé dans le monde. Rendu public par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) le 28 août 2008, le rapport, intitulé « Combler le fossé en une génération » (1), synthétise les résultats de trois années de recherches. Lire la suite >
Une Commission de l’OMS constate que les inégalités «tuent à grande échelle»
Commission on Social Determinants of Health – Final Report
Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
Download the full report [pdf 7.28Mb]
Version Française [pdf 4.73Mb]
We also tried to keep our pills as close to pure acetaminophen as we could, We haven’t included the coatings and dyes that many companies are so fond of using. Coatings and dyes can make a pill look prettier but they don’t really help you with your headache, and that’s what we are trying to do. If you enjoy coatings and dyes, you will have to eat them separately.
you should try that boring link too: http://www.helpineedhelp.com/bored/
Remembering the 2FOR2 in LES…and the “McDo Mont-Blanc”…
- Mac daddies and Surrounded by McDonald’s by Maegan Carberry.
- McDonalds Will Pay Rappers To Say ‘Big Mac’ on Soul Shine Magazine
- McDonalds Hungry For Hip-Hop
Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood Press Releases Children’s Coalition Raps McDonald’s Supersized Hypocrisy Hip-Hop Songs to Feature Big Macs
Related links :
- Morgan Spurlock blog
- Super Size Me
- Globesidad: una epidemia en apogeo
- …the majority of Russians regard McDonalds as a free public toilet with an eatery annex…
The Pope continues a “slow and progressive convalescence…” and brings hope to Terri (unfortunately daughter of a really stupid white man, another one talking in the name of God)
- Federal Judge Condemns Intervention in Schiavo Case
- Pope’s Feeding Tube Brings End-of-Life Questions Closer
Update in Italian:
- Per Papa Wojtyla una sofferenza in più ma necessaria
- L’ultima verità di Ali Agca “Avevo dei complici in Vaticano”
- No Coke in the Rome III University automatic food&drink distributors.
- Sports drinks even worse for your teeth than pop, study finds
Links:
- altromercato – commercio equo e solidale on-line
- Associazione Botteghe Del Mondo
- Equoland – commercio positivo dal mondo reale
It sounds good
- Putumayo World Music
- Pharm Aid
Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala
StarLink, a type of genetically altered corn that generates its very own built-in pesticide was found in parcels of the world food Program (WFP) of the United Nations bound for Guatemala.
- Chronic Arsenic Poisoning:
History, Study and Remediation
New solutions for the water poisoned with arsenic. Simple and cheap technologies could -now- solve the problem.
Water & Sanitation at the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering
Susan Murcott, Lecturer
Arsenic Biosand Water Filter for Rural Nepal
Household water treatment
- Winning the wine war
Could DNA help the fight to keep bottle labels honest?
- Things grow better with Coke
Coca-Cola can draw 5 lakh litres of water daily
Coke vs People: The Heat is On in Plachimada
Does Coca-Cola really make a good pesticide?
- DOSSIER : MAIN BASSE SUR L’EAU DES VILLES
- Oubliez l’OPEP, voici les exportateurs d’eau potable
Seen this Monday on ecoblog.it, an Italian blog about ecology and everything for who – really – cares about planet hearth, two post that pre-occupied myself a little.
The article about PM10 that links to La Repubblica (a major Italian daily newspaper) told about 310.000 Europeans died every years because of bad air quality and high pollution level…
The other one posted last Friday is about this serious study “Scripps Researchers Find Clear Evidence of Human-Produced Warming in World’s Oceans”…
Anyway, I hate Mondays…
Environment DG Mission Statement:
“Protecting, preserving and improving the environment for present and future generations, and promoting sustainable development.”
Last summer, while the Americans were focused on the Iraq crisis and on the presidential campaign, the American chemical industry was worried about what occurred in Europe…
The European Commission for Environment has put a final touch on the REACH – Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals - project, the first attempt for data acquisition on the 30.000 chemicals marketed in the United States and in the world.
In 1976, the Congress adopted Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the actual problem of the TSCA is that 80 % of the chemical substances today on the market were introduced before 1979. But Europe, at the time, followed the American model, in facts, the TSCA constituted an international reference.
In 2004 very high concentrations of toxic substances were found in some tested Americans and Europeans blood: last June at the WHO convention in Budapest, World Wildlife Fund detected 44 dangerous products in the blood of EU staff, including Margot Wallstrom, current vice-president of the communication at the European Commission.
In 2005 the American Chemical Council has to find new lobbying methods in a new international context dealing with an institution including twenty-five countries and twenty national languages. “All was new for us: new Parliament, new procedures, new political parties “, recognizes Joe Mayhew, adviser as a chief at American Chemical Council.
Update: Lobbying Code of Conduct?
The Brussels branches of leading American lobbying companies (Weber Shandwick, Hill & Knowlton, Burson Marsteller and Fleishman Hillard) met in January to form the European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA). Limited to lobbying firms and excluding the lobbying staff of big multinational corporations, the new association provides for strict disciplinary procedures for members who fail to comply with a code of conduct laid down by the European Commission.
Many international corporations have a philosophy, governance and policy, and promote themselves their effort in ecology, sustainable development, and on and on… directly on their Web sites to inform visitors how they – try to – respect environment.
Nice but more of those companies produces chemicals, sports cars, or simply use natural resources to do business.
Some of them are interesting and I will show the Porsche example, cause try to explain effort in ecology selling V8 bi-turbo sport cars is so so so funny !
Porsche said:
We want to
- preserve resources and use them economically,
- avoid harming the environment,
- keep environmental impact to a minimum.
Now have a look to the ecological Cayenne 4.5-litre twin-turbo V8 engine, 331 kW, 2,430 kg
For all the others have yourself a look to major corporation’s Web sites…
Great job ! The “Colombia plans” reduced half the surface of the fields of coca in Colombia. But Monsanto sells its products in this country too such as the needed one to resist to Roundup, a killer for any kind of coca plants, mmmh…not sure.
Thanks to transgenic the regular coca plant is now 2.7m (9ft) tall and produce four times as much cocaine as ordinary plants, is called boliviana negra and resist to the glyphosate.
Also the DEA is always fighting drugs production around the world with enthusiasm, how explain to them this strange FDA decision about authorizing test ecstasy on terminal cancer patients…?
