Science_and_Sci_Fi
A group for talking about current Science and it's relation to "Future"
Science and the technology of the Science Fiction Genre.
http://groups.google.com/group/Science_and_Sci_Fi

The resignation of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Lester Crawford last Friday caught the pharmaceutical industry by
surprise, reigniting concerns about the health agency's lack of solid
leadership, experts and analysts said on Monday.

Unexplained weight loss in older people might be an early signal of
Alzheimer's disease, appearing several years before the memory lapses
that define the illness, according to an intriguing but unproven new
theory.

Bears repeating:

Shannon Brownlee
http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=1540

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 12:00 AM
Dr. Scott Gottlieb
Wall Street biotech insider gets No. 2 job at the FDA
By Alicia Mundy

Published on Sunday, September 11, 2005 by the
Observer/UK
Diseases of Rich Deprive Poor of Drugs
by Anushka Asthana

A majority of physicians (81%) recently surveyed favor prohibitions on
direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs for a period of
time after the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug,
according to the market research firm HRA Research.

My girlfriend suffers from schizophrenia and is generally well at
present on her medication,which is 500mg solian and 7.5mg kemadrin
daily. However ,she suffers with one major problem in which several
times weekly ,particularly when she excercises she gets a rapid

AFRICA FILE
Pharmaceutical colonialism in Africa
http://mondediplo.com/2005/08/11pharma
Big drug companies are conducting clinical trials in Africa with no

Since you can increase your production of HGH a lot with small stress,
I have done a little research and plan to try a HI plan that I came up
with myself. When I wake up, I will sprint as fast as I can for 30
seconds, and do that every 2 hours until I go to sleep. Hopefully, I

I'm trying to visualize what's going to happen if/when H5N1 mutates to a
person-to-person-transmissible virus.
One image I have is of a very rapid spread because nobody has any existing
immunity.   i.e. Lots of people that we have contact with going about our daily

For an infant whose blood glucose levels are really low, why give IV
dextrose as opposed to another sugar?

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All of these specimens of petrified human remains
discovered between anthracite veins -- bones, teeth

~ * Mapping the Wake of Trauma:
Autobiographical Essays by the Pioneers of Trauma Research * ~
Edited by Charles R. Figley, Ph.D.

Last month:
The head of the Agency of Women's Health at the FDA, Dr. Susan Wood,
resigned over the FDA's refusal to make the morning after pill OTC.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083101271.html