Posted in ANNOUNCEMENTS, HEALTH, MEDICAL on Thursday, November19, 2009 | Comments Off
Tylenol Found to Reduce Effectiveness of Vaccines
November 13, 2009. By Gordon Gibb
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Rochester, NY: Tylenol, a medicine cabinet staple in millions of households, has been getting some bad press lately. Linked in the past to acetaminophen toxicity, potential liver damage, and other Tylenol [...]
Posted in HEALTH, LAW ENFORCEMENT, MEDICAL on Wednesday, October14, 2009 | Comments Off
Nashville Police Use Sedatives On Public
Full story: www.bvblackspin.com
Become too agitated on the streets of Nashville, Tenn., and police and paramedics may inject you with a drug that not only calms you but could make you forget the incident. Police can and should seek nonlethal ways to deal with agitated and mentally ill individuals; however, injecting [...]
Posted in ANNOUNCEMENTS, HEALTH, MEDICAL on Wednesday, October7, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s Time to Get Smart: Week-long Initiative Promotes the Proper Use of Antibiotics
Health Department takes part in ‘Know When Antibiotics Work Week,’ from October 5th to 11th
“If you have a cold, or the flu, antibiotics won’t work for you!” This is one of the main messages the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) want [...]
US Judge Rules Against Compulsory Vaccinations
Full story: www.ireport.com
A Preliminary Injunction to stop mandatory vaccinations has been issued in the United States District Court of New Jersey. This comes after a federal lawsuit opposing forced vaccines was filed in that court by Tim Vawter, pro se attorney, on July 31st with the federal government as defendant. [...]
Posted in HEALTH, MEDICAL on Tuesday, October6, 2009 | Comments Off
First Shipments of H1N1 Vaccine Arrive in New York City
Hospitals and health care providers receive initial doses of the nasal mist vaccine.City-wide vaccination effort starts by targeting children and health care workers.
Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs and Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Health Commissioner, visited the Montefiore Medical Center as [...]
Posted in ANNOUNCEMENTS, FDA ALERTS, HEALTH, MEDICAL on Thursday, September24, 2009 | Comments Off
FDA Public Health Alert: Potential Medication Errors with Tamiflu for Oral Suspension
Prescribers and pharmacists should be alert for potential dosing errors with Tamiflu (oseltamivir) for Oral Suspension. U.S. health care providers usually write prescriptions for liquid medicines in milliliters (mL) or teaspoons, while Tamiflu is dosed in milligrams (mg). The dosing dispenser packaged with Tamiflu [...]
Posted in ANNOUNCEMENTS, EDUCATION, GENERAL, MEDICAL, POLITRICKS on Thursday, September24, 2009 | Comments Off
Race and the Soda Pop Tax
By Nina JacintoPosted on September 24, 2009, Printed on September 24, 2009http://www.wiretapmag.org/blogs/race/44529/
I think most of us can think of a commercial for Pepsi or Coke faster than we can think of any advertisement for fruits or vegetables. That’s because the $115 billion dollar soda industry has done a lot to [...]
Posted in HARLEM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, MEDICAL on Thursday, September24, 2009 | Comments Off
Body found in 1997 confirmed as Harlem man’s
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, GA. | DONNIE FETTER | Thu, Sep 24, 3:25 AM
Sep. 24–Lawrence Hopson didn’t live long enough to find out that his brother died before he did.
After more than a decade, Columbia County investigators determined the identity of bones found on a Grovetown construction site on [...]
Posted in GENERAL, HARLEM, HEALTH, MEDICAL on Monday, August24, 2009 | Comments Off
SOC. SEC. PAY TO ‘DROP’ IN ‘10
AP
August 24, 2009 –
WASHINGTON — Millions of people face shrinking Social Security checks next year for the first time in a generation.
The program’s trustees project no cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for the next two years. That hasn’t happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975.
By law, benefits cannot go [...]
Posted in HARLEM, HEALTH, IN THE NEWS, MEDICAL, THE LOUNGE on Saturday, July4, 2009 | Comments Off
Watermelon May Have Effects Similar to Viagra
Herbie Hancock’s 1962 jazz hit “Watermelon Man” takes on a whole new meaning from this little-known fact: One of its ingredients triggers production of a chemical that works similar to Viagra.
And the millions of watermelons being enjoyed across the nation this Fourth of July weekend just might help [...]
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