http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/disease/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 03:16:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418776/posts Archbishop of York Condemns Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill Ugandan-born Dr Sentamu said gay people were valued by God The Archbishop of York has condemned an anti-homosexuality bill going through parliament in Uganda. Dr John Sentamu, who was born in the African country, said the laws being debated were "victimising". Under the plans gays and lesbians would be jailed for life if convicted of having sex, and gay people who had sex with a minor would be put to death. Dr Sentamu told the BBC the Anglican communion was committed to recognising that gay people were valued by God. Under the bill,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418776/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 03:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418063/posts Lisa Miller Is Supposed to Handover Daughter Isabella to her Former Lesbian Partner Janet Jenkins on Friday - ABC News http://abcnews.go.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418063/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:40:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417428/posts The owner of a gay sex club in NYC reportedly said the following in the mid-1990s: “If I were to get AIDS today, it’s my own f***ing fault. I deserve it.” Agree or disagree? Policing public sex http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417428/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:43:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417548/posts The Freshman Class Council has run into controversy with its T-shirts for The Game. The FCC has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by students and voted on by the freshman class, sparked outcry from members within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The original design, which won out over five other entries, displayed an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote in the front — “I think of all Harvard men as sissies” — in bold white letters. The back of the long-sleeved, navy blue T-shirt said “WE AGREE” in capital letters,... Yale Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417548/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:42:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417259/posts Malawi police have arrested and charged two homosexual men with "gross indecency" after the couple wed in the country's first same-sex public marriage ceremony over the weekend. Davie Chingwalu, a police spokesman, told AFP the two men would "appear in court soon to answer charges of gross indecency". He added that police were still investigating the incident. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were married in a traditional ceremony in southern Malawi on Saturday, attracting hundreds of curious onlookers. Malawi's penal code outlaws homosexuality and sodomy, which is punishable by a maximum of 14 years in jail. The government does, however,... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417259/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409817/posts A coalition of human rights groups is condemning a proposed amendment to Rwanda's criminal law that would criminalize homosexual behavior and advocacy. Meanwhile, Rwanda's northern neighbor, Uganda, is receiving heat for a "draconian" anti-gay bill being debated in its legislature. The coalition Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders says the draft language to criminalize homosexuality could be voted on in the Rwandan lower house of parliament by Friday.  The draft code would then pass to the Rwandan senate for approval. The amended language for Article 217 acquired by the group would give offenders - those who "practice," "encourage,"... VOA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409817/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:04:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403353/posts Around one million doses of Tamiflu have so far been given out, but according to the figures, hundreds of thousands of packets could have been wasted as most people with symptoms of flu did not have the H1N1 pandemic virus. Random swabs taken by the Health Protection Agency show that four out of five people calling the National Pandemic Flu Service with symptoms of the disease, did not test positive for it. At the end of the first wave of the pandemic in Britain, just one in twenty people calling the flu line with symptoms tested positive. It has led... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403353/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:43:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404483/posts BOSTON (Reuters) – Bone marrow transplants, already used to treat some children with sickle cell disease, also may cure some adults with this deadly genetic defect that causes red blood cells to contort, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday. > Destroying a patient's bone marrow and replacing it with healthy marrow from a donor, often a sibling, is considered too risky for adults. > This approach leaves enough space inside the patient's bones for the donated marrow to find a home and produce enough healthy red blood cells to compensate for the defective ones. > Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404483/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:18:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401559/posts The claims have been sensational. Martin Mittelstaedt checks up on the research behind the hype ### In the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave. The young epidemiologists were watching a presentation on death rates from cancer county by county across the United States. As they sat in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore looking at the colour-coded cancer maps, they noticed a striking pattern, with the map for colon cancer the most pronounced. Counties with high death rates were red; those with low rates were blue. Oddly, the nation was almost... Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401559/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:00:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376873/posts A friend of mine once called it Elvis Disease. Occasionally an individual will become so powerful, that he forgets he is mortal. (It’s what happened to Marlon Brando’s character in “Apocalypse Now.“) Because when a human becomes so important that people confuse him with a god, he might start believing it himself. When Elvis came out of the dressing room for the first time in that sequined white jumpsuit with elephant bells, high collar, and a matching cape, he asked the people he thought were friends, “Ahh , what d’yall think? Ahh picked it for my Hawaii show…” But everyone... Big Hollywood.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376873/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:59:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2368074/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) – Researchers in the United States have found another good reason to go to the local espresso bar: several cups of coffee a day could halt the progression of liver disease, a study showed Wednesday. Sufferers of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease who drank three or more cups of coffee per day slashed their risk of the disease progressing by 53 percent compared to patients who drank no coffee, the study led by Neal Freedman of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) showed. For the study, 766 participants enrolled in the Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2368074/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:35:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351729/posts The Pentagon runs a massive medical research program, studying a broad range of problems from cancer to malaria to sleep disorders. The work is done at home and abroad. For instance, The Defense Department partners on AIDS prevention with African forces, and the Army worked on an experimental AIDs vaccine tested in Thailand, announcing a breakthrough in the vaccine on Thursday. Though military research has also benefited the civilian world, the main reason for the huge effort is to protect the U.S. armed forces as they are exposed to disease and injury while deployed around the world. "If half of... Medical News Today - Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351729/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:28:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348933/posts New guidance for Britain’s 150,000 practising doctors could remove the right to confidentiality from patients with inherited diseases. When a patient is found to have a gentic disease, such as certain forms of cancer, doctors will be obliged to inform relatives about potential risks to their health, the General Medical Council (GMC) says. Updated guidance on confidentiality, seen by The Times before publication on Monday, suggests that most patients will readily share information about their health with their children and close relatives. However, in circumstances where family relationships have broken down, where children have been adopted — or patients refuse... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348933/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:05:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338344/posts Despite the efforts restaurant chains from fast food to fine dining have made to add more-healthful items to the menu, consumers still aren’t buying. In a poll on chainleader.com, 82 percent of respondents say their better-for-you items are selling “lousy.” Recent research shows that customers cite economic factors as a reason for not purchasing healthful food—or as an excuse. Too Great a Cost Chicago-based foodservice consulting firm Technomic says its research shows the recession is hindering consumers’ healthy-eating behavior. Although more than half of consumers say they are more concerned about their eating habits than they were a year ago,... Chain Leader Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338344/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:32:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337287/posts See Video Here (she' pretty, maybe that we'll get you to watch it?) The Documents are HERE ... YouTube and Documents http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337287/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331889/posts The document on the WHO website linked below states that it is common procedure to release pandemic viruses into the population in order to get a jump ahead of the real pandemic, so as to fast track the vaccine for when it is needed. In Europe, some manufacturers have conducted advance studies using a so-called "mock-up" vaccine. Mock-up vaccines contain an active ingredient for an influenza virus that has not circulated recently in human populations and thus mimics the novelty of a pandemic virus. According to the website, “Such advance studies can greatly expedite WHO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331889/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330755/posts A new study at the Centres for Disease Expansion revealed that only 70 percent of the population has an illness or medical disorder of some kind. Team leader Dr. Pran Feesberg said investigators were "shocked" by the results. "It means that nearly a third of North Americans have no trace of disease - nothing they can take drugs for, no condition they can complain about to friends - just a bleak, empty life, devoid of infirmity." The Daily Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330755/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:10:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330427/posts Some of my best friends are gay. Suspiciously large numbers, it has sometimes been suggested to me. But that’s OK, I’m cool with that. What my friends get up to in the privacy of their own homes - or, indeed, the scary back room of their local boite - is very much their own affair. And if they want to get married (Hell-ooo! Why sacrifice the single greatest benefit of being gay?), well I’m probably OK with that too. I don’t believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice so I guess it’s only fair that gay men and women too... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330427/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322407/posts Parasitic infections and other diseases usually associated with the developing world are cropping up with alarming frequency among U.S. poor, especially in states along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South and in Appalachia, according to researchers. Government and private researchers are just beginning to assess the toll of the infections, which are a significant cause of heart disease, seizures and congenital birth defects among black and Hispanic populations. Click on the image to see diseases associated with developing countries that are becoming common in the U.S. . One obstacle is that the diseases, long thought to be an overseas problem,... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322407/posts#comment Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:40:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316997/posts A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins. It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by... MailOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316997/posts#comment Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:33:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300869/posts Hundreds of thousands of Americans could die over the next two years if the vaccine and other control measures for the new H1N1 influenza are not effective, and, at the pandemic's peak, as much as 40% of the workforce could be affected, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is admittedly a worst-case scenario that the federal agency says it doesn't expect to occur. But the broad range of potential deaths highlights the unpredictability of flu viruses in general and this swine flu virus in particular because it hasn't behaved the way researchers have... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300869/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:25:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282251/posts Contaminated needles and scalpels, bloodied bandages, body parts, unused prescription drugs, soiled hospital garments, radioactive waste and refuse tainted with infectious disease: These are only a few items that may be discarded on a curbside, abandoned in a nearby lake or piled in a dumpster headed for the local landfill. Some say Americans are simply oblivious to the imminent risk of major hazards and contagions spreading throughout their communities at any given time. Former Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., grew concerned about medical waste hauling after Sept. 11. He told WND that 15 years ago, the nation's hospitals incinerated much of... wnd http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282251/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278948/posts Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human. But they emphasized that there was no way to prove their theory and only sketchy data underpinning it. There is no evidence that this new virus, which combines Eurasian and North American genes, has ever circulated in North American pigs, while there is tantalizing evidence that a closely related “sister virus” has circulated in Asia. American breeding pigs, possibly carrying... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278948/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269597/posts The World Health Organization this morning formally declared that swine flu had reached the level of a full-blown pandemic, moving the viral outbreaks to phase 6 on the pandemic alert scale. WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan met with flu experts at 6 a.m. ET today in Geneva to discuss the spread of the novel virus, and since Wednesday the escalation to the highest level of pandemic alert had been widely anticipated. The move reflects the continued spread of the virus around the globe, despite quarantines, school closings and other measures designed to keep it in check. Swine flu is the... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269597/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:42:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257674/posts The world must be ready for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and kill more people, World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan said on Friday. A genetic analysis of the new virus showed it must have been circulating undetected for some time, in pigs or perhaps in other animals. The WHO is poised to declare a full pandemic of the virus, which has infected more than 11,000 people in 42 countries and killed 86. And U.S. health officials released $1 billion for companies to get started on a vaccine in case it is needed. The virus must be... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257674/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 07:06:42 GMT