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ObamaCare by Susan Trevelyan-Syke

All the recent independent polls taken show the American public does NOT favour the current (section changes yet to be written) Senate bill since it dropped both single-payer or public option and Medicare buy-in. The public opposes mandated insurance purchases from private insurers. Failure to buy is punished by a fine or jail.

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The day pain died by Mike Jay

June 7, 2009

The day that surgical anaesthesia was first publicly demonstrated, Oct. 16, 1846, ranks among the most iconic in the history of medicine. It was the moment when Boston, and indeed the United States, first emerged as a world-class center of medical innovation.

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Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof

In 1975, I presented the first edition of Realms of the Human Unconscious to my professional colleagues and to the general public with somewhat mixed feelings and not without hesitation, because I was fully aware of how unusual and surprising some of its sections might seem to a reader who has not had a firsthand experience with psychedelics or some other type of non-ordinary state of consciousness.

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Deception Used in Marketing Vioxx

Two teams of researchers with access to thousands of documents gathered in lawsuits over the painkiller Vioxx allege that Merck & Co. waged a campaign of deception to promote its drug, moving slowly to warn of possible hazards while dressing up in-house research as the work of independent academic researchers.

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“In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.” This sentiment, introducing the essay that made Francis Fukuyama a household name, commands renewed attention today, albeit from a different perspective.