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Follow the conversation on what doctors don’t tell, medications, and side effects on the blog of UK writer a href=”http://www.janealexander.org/” title=”Jane Alexander” target=”_blank”>Jane Alexander “Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman here. Read Jane’s books on alternative and wholistic health care here and [...]
Normal brain on the left, brain of NFL player John Grimsley in the middle, and a boxer on the right. The two right images show the dark tau staining brain matter seen in CTE.
The National Hockey League (NHL) continues to put making money over player safety in stonewalling over the growing number [...]
After two years Grady Hospital has refused to renew the contract with Fresenius for the dialysis care that the Grady patients with renal failure need to stay alive. Please sign this petition and call your senator or representative to protest this injustice and inhumanity.
Below is the press release from Advocates for Responsible [...]
There is a new series of investigative journalism pieces from ProPublica about payments by pharmaceutical companies to physicians as well as a widget you can use to look up your own doctor to see if they are on the payroll.
In this article they write about how there are 348 physicians in the US [...]
This weekend we took our daughter to the University of Chicago for orientation for her first year of college (sob!).
During one of the orientation sessions a parent asked about what happened if their kid developed a mental health issue. I mean, that’s something to be concerned about if [...]
Yesterday we converged at Emory University to present a letter to President Jim Wagner requesting that Emory join with other dialysis centers in Atlanta, GA to help provide care for the 33 dialysis patients whose extension of life-saving dialysis ends next week. We then traveled to the Fresenius Dialysis Center at 231 14th St in [...]
Sign the petition to save the Grady dialysis patients here.
After August 31, 2010, thirty three (33) uninsured End-Stage-Renal Disease patients of Grady Memorial Hospital will no longer receive their life-sustaining dialysis treatments.
- In September 2009, Grady Memorial Hospital closed its outpatient dialysis clinic. At that time the thirty three (33) uninsured patients, [...]
and imminent sentence of death for 33 patients on Aug 31 2010. Interview by Grady physician Neil Shulman MD
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Neil Shulman MD gave a talk at a recent Emory Cardiology Research Conference about the plight of the Grady Hospital dialysis patients. (Read all of the posts about Grady dialysis here). A year ago, we the Grady patients received a death sentence after the board of directors decided to close the dialysis clinic and [...]
Interview of me by Neil Shulman MD about my experiences with the pharmaceutical industry. Exclusive footage you won’t see on the mainstream media.
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