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09 Oct 09

WPI Finds High Levels of Retrovirus in ME/CFS Patients - Page 6 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Forums (ME/CFS Forums) at the PHOENIX RISING

  • a so-called passenger virus that is simply infecting patients whose immune systems have been suppressed by other causes.

WPI Finds High Levels of Retrovirus in ME/CFS Patients - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Forums (ME/CFS Forums) at the PHOENIX RISING

  • "NCI is responding like it did in the early days of HIV," says Stuart Le Grice, head of the Center of Excellence in HIV/AIDS and cancer virology at NCI and one of the organizers of the July workshop.
  • The virus creates an underlying immune deficiency, which might make people vulnerable to a range of diseases, said Judy Mikovits of the Whittemore Peterson Institute and one of the lead authors on the paper.
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29 Sep 09

Keeping Iran honest | Scott Ritter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  • or more likely, an attempt on the part of Iran to provide for strategic depth and survivability of its nuclear programme in the face of repeated threats on the part of the US and Israel to bomb its nuclear infrastructure.
  • The need to create a mechanism of economic survival in the face of the real threat of either US or Israeli military action is probably the most likely explanation behind the Qom facility.

Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

  • On the contrary, as opponents of sanctions keep saying, a tighter sanctions regime will harm internal political opposition to the regime, increase the political-military establishment’s hold on the economy and cause Iranians to rally behind their government in the face of outside hostility.
  • the far more likely way to obtain the outcome we want is through consensual agreement. 
28 Sep 09

Annals of Science: Darwin’s Surprise : The New Yorker

  • It is still not clear how they function, but they may help subvert the immune system, which would permit cancer cells to grow without restraint.
16 Sep 09

Op-Ed Columnist - The Body Count at Home - NYTimes.com

  • After Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, eight years ago on Friday, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen again. Yet every two months, that many people die because of our failure to provide universal insurance — and yet many members of Congress want us to do nothing?
15 Sep 09

Wait a Second. Why Shouldn’t We Insure Illegals? | Print Article | Newsweek.com

  • it stands to reason that including the relatively healthy, relatively employable and largely uninsured illegal population in some sort of universal health-care system would be a boon rather than a burden.
  • If you're really worried about the native-born workforce, what you want to do is minimize the differences in labor costs between different types of workers. A health care policy that enlarges those differences—that makes documented workers more expensive compared to undocumented workers—is actually worse for the documented workers."
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14 Sep 09

Obama's big silence: the race question | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian

  • The undercurrent of all these attacks was that Obama, far from being the colour-blind moderate he posed as during the presidential campaign, is actually obsessed with race, in particular with redistributing white wealth into the hands of African Americans and undocumented Mexican workers.
  • The undercurrent of all these attacks was that Obama, far from being the colour-blind moderate he posed as during the presidential campaign, is actually obsessed with race, in particular with redistributing white wealth into the hands of African Americans and undocumented Mexican workers.
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12 Sep 09

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: A Conceptual Model: The Symptom Management Model

  • The model also takes into account the fact that symptom-management strategies fail when it is difficult for the individual to adhere to them

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical Management Strategies

  • Some nonpharmacologic strategies for managing and reducing fatigue in people with MS are exercise training, energy conservation, and cooling therapy

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Manifestations and Surveillance

  • People with MS who have fatigue may not report their fatigue if they regard it as an inevitable consequence of MS, so it is important for clinicians to ask specific questions that can identify its presence
  • Upwards of 30 different instruments have been developed to measure fatigue, but none has emerged as the definitive measure (Dittner et al.; Kos, Nagels, D'Hooghe, Duportail, & Kerckhofs, 2006; Schwid et al.)

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Definition

  • "The awareness of a decreased capacity for physical and/or mental activity due to an imbalance in the availability, utilization, and/or restoration of resources needed to perform activity"

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

  • One such explanation favors an autonomic
    neuropathy that predominantly affects the lower extremities.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Why Are Senior Citizens Crying "Socialism" at Town Halls?

  • because of different life expectancies, the typical black man will receive on average about $70,000 less than a white man, and even if the white man and black man both reach age 65, the disparity still remains about $25,000.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Poll: Most Don't Know What "Public Option" Is -- Including Pollsters

  • More generally, there seems to be a sort of arm's-race on both sides of the debate to conduct crappy, manipulative polls on health care reform, and the public option in particular.

Open Left:: Progressive Block Whip Count To Begin Monday

  • If the public option is just a minor distraction, then why don't moderate and conservative Democrats just give into the Progressives? Seriously--if the public option is so meaningless, then what's the big deal? Just give into the demands, and pass the bill.
11 Sep 09

Which High School Students Are Most Likely to Graduate From College? - Yahoo! News

  • The new research finds distressing signs that demographic factors such as gender, race, and parental education play large roles in determining a student's fate, no matter how smart or hardworking the particular student is.
  • Interestingly, an analysis of eighth-grade reading and math test scores in North Carolina found that they were far more significant predictors of college enrollment than most other factors, including high school characteristics and student race
10 Sep 09

Robert Reich's Blog: The Lessons from History on Health Care Reform

  • “The only way to deal with Congress is continuously, incessantly and without interruption,” he quipped.
  • Economic advice is important, but it’s only one source of wisdom.
09 Sep 09

Yoga Journal - Yoga Meditation - Surrendering to Silence

  • In awakened awareness we don't need to pretend that we are only a conglomeration of stories, an aggregate of accomplishments, or a survivor of miseries. We are willing to gaze into the eyes of another person without fear or desire—without stories about who I am or who she is—and sense only the light of existence shining in a particular pair of eyes.

With one simple sentence, ABC News confirms the death of Beltway journalism | Media Matters for America

  • "The media loves a good fight--even when the charges are unfounded."
  • As I've noted, when conservatives--and overwhelming white--activists get mad, it's news. When liberals do it, it's annoying.)
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