Paper: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Title: Prices Cited in Health Cost Gap
A study finds that although the U.S. spends more for care than
elsewhere, Americans don't always get more.

ROY ROMANOW SPEECH TO THE COOPERATORS APRIL 15, 2003 HALIFAX, NOVA
SCOTIA
Speech for The Cooperators
Halifax

HS-RESEARCH.COM aims to promote, encourage and facilitate the
advancement of research into the chronic inflammatory skin disease
called Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS). This website was established to
advance research into the disease, to help educate and empower

Drug costs count: Sometimes we have to tell the dying "no"
By ANDRE PICARD
Thursday, July 21, 2005 Page A13
They are heart-wrenching tales: The young mother struck down in her

   I started Zoloft two weeks ago and a few days ago I started peeing more
often and with difficulty. Today I start to feel a  burning sensation in my
prostate. My doc doesn't think its related and tell me to see a urologist.
Any second opinions? If Zoloft is causing this then I ...

July 26, 2005
Vioxx Posed Heart Risk After Just A Few Weeks, Data Suggest
By BARBARA MARTINEZ and ILAN BRAT
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

License to Ill
Increasingly, drug companies aren't just selling cures. They're also
marketing disease.
By Bradford Plumer

July 15, 2005
To Sell Their Drugs, Companies Increasingly Rely on Doctors
For $750 and Up, Physicians Tell Peers About Products; Talks Called
Educational

Here is the abstract of the paper generating the noise:
1: Arch Neurol. 2005 Jul;62(7):1047-51.
Statin use and the risk of incident dementia: the Cardiovascular Health
Study.

Prayer can heal Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva FOP
I go to this small church where thousands have been healed for
30 years. I wish I know about this place before
my cancer operation - I cannot take pain medicine.

The Spiritual Hitter Tom Cruise - And Cruelty Explained By Example
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If you want to Admire such an individual, then a somewhat civilized

Psych Orkeltatte confessed to his patient
"I am so unhappy with myself", says Orkel, "see those tomatoes growing
in my head?"
The patient decides to play along. "Yes, I see. What's wrong with

When is an illness a mental illness?  Exactly how are mental
illnesses different than physical illnesses?  What causes mental
illnesses?  Thank you in advance for all replies.

Like a broken record, I keep preaching that the Scientific
Establishment -- and all members thereof -- are guilty
of deceit, deception, collusion and conspiracy in the matter

My mum suffers from Rheumatoid Arthritis, but she's in the beginning of
the disease afaik and she's being medicated. Lately, she's suffering
from a feet itch. She feels the need to scratch her feet a lot and then
there are some red 'very' small lumps. After scratching, a liquid ...