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  • Fidel Castro Affirms that Cuba Will Even Better Her Health Statistics
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, Sep 19 (PL) President Fidel Castro affirmed Monday that Cuba is on the way to reduce infant mortality here to less than four per thousand births and to increase the life expectancy of her people.
    We are going to be the first Latin American country to reach this figure, even better than that of Canada, the statesman pointed out during the graduation ceremony for more than 1,903 physicians from the country’s medical schools.
    In addition, he said, this will take place in half the (…)

  • UK under pressure to stem Afghan opium growth
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Oliver
    The home secretary, Charles Clarke, and EU interior ministers were today grappling with how to stop the flood of narcotics from Afghanistan, increasingly a responsibility of the UK.
    The UK is under pressure from EU countries to take a lead role in the fight against heroin production in Afghanistan, with Britain taking over the Nato mission in the country next May.
    As much as 90% of the heroin from Afghanistan ends up in Europe and there is concern about the impotency of (…)

  • Is St. Rita’s Subject to the Rules of the Free Market?
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the midst of the rising numbers of tragedies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is likely to be none more gruesome than the drowning of 34 patients at St. Rita’s Nursing Home.
    St. Rita’s was run by Salvador and Mable Mangano. A quick check of the Medicare “Nursing Home Compare” web site indicates that the Mangano’s ran a home with mixed reviews, a higher than average rate of restraining patients, for example, but a lower than average rate of depressed patients. The 2004 (…)

  • From a psychologist First-hand reaction to Katrina refuges
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There are so many words that come to mind. As a scholar I am thinking Diaspora, social displacement, systemic disruption, mass trauma, pandemic and unbelievable chaos. As a clinician, I am looking at something that we have never been trained to handle in this country — a level of victimization and its resultant psycho-social ripples that mandate a whole new field of clinical practice-mass victimology. Katrina kicked the top off of a racist and social termite’s nest that has been growing (…)

  • Bush administration snubs Cuban hurricane relief offer
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill Van Auken
    Among the many offers of aid for New Orleans and Gulf Coast disaster victims that the Bush administration has either blocked, squandered or delayed is that of a substantial emergency medical brigade from Cuba.
    The Cuban government of President Fidel Castro offered in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation to send over 1,000 doctors and 36 tons of medicine and equipment to the disaster zone. After 10 days, the Bush administration has yet to even (…)

  • Martinez: Cuban aid should be welcomed
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sen. Mel Martinez said he was ’grateful’ for Cuba’s offer to send doctors to assist in the Katrina relief effort, though the Bush administration has not responded to the offer.
    BY PABLO BACHELET
    pbachelet@herald.com
    WASHINGTON - Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez said Wednesday that the U.S. government should accept Cuba’s offer to send hundreds of doctors to treat victims of Hurricane Katrina, provided they are needed and ``reasonably well-trained.’’
    Cuban leader Fidel Castro has (…)

  • CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS REMARKS DURING THE TV ROUND TABLE.
    Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air, sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the (…)

  • Sweatshop on wheels. Health risks and low wages push bike couriers to join nation-wide union drive
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOE HENDRY
    For bike couriers, navigating the smog-filled concrete corridors of downtown T.O. is no easy ride. The hours are long, the pay is low, and the sweaty working conditions can literally be hazardous to your health.
    Tired of riding on the beaten path and after what they describe as years of government neglect of their health and safety concerns, smog chief among them, Toronto’s 500-plus bike messengers are talking about joining thousands of others across the country in a (…)

  • Radioactive Wounds of War
    27 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq
    By Dave Lindorff
    Gerard Matthew thought he was lucky. He returned from his Iraq tour a year and a half ago alive and in one piece. But after the New York State National Guardsman got home, he learned that a bunkmate, Sgt. Ray Ramos, and a group of N.Y. Guard members from another unit had accepted an offer by the New York Daily News and reporter Juan Gonzalez to be tested for depleted uranium (…)

  • Invitation to event - Planning and the Mayor’s London Food strategy
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friend I would like to invite you to a one day event looking at how plannning can help the Mayor’s London Food Strategy deliver better health, social inclusion and more sustainable communities. The event will be held at City Hall on 19th September 2005. It will: introduce the London Food Strategy and explain how the strategy will affect planners expore the practical links between planning, health, social inclusion and sustainable communities provide practical case studies (…)