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New Independent Film ‘Catania’

By Doug Bremner On April 17, 2012 · 3 Comments

View clips about the production of our new Indy film ‘Catania” here, here and here. Want to become a part owner of [...]

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Heading to the Charleston International Film Festival

By Doug Bremner On April 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

We are going to the Charleston International Film Festival next weekend Apr 12-16 where I am a finalist in the screenwriters’ competition for my screenplay about the true story of a Georgia doctor who was framed and thrown in jail by the local factory owner when he started to raise questions about the corruption that [...]

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Guest Post: I’ve Learned Everything I Know About High Profile Cases from my Ex-Husband John Henry Browne

By Doug Bremner On March 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

by Anne Bremner,

with contributions by Bob Sims

John Henry Browne is defending accused killer Robert Bales. Bales is the Pacific Northwest-based soldier who allegedly gunned down 17 civilians in Afghanistan.

Before the world knew any of the specific details of this case or who the victims were, it knew all about the accused [...]

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Malaria Drugs Can Drive You Nuts: Was Robert Bales on Lariam?

By Doug Bremner On March 26, 2012 · 1 Comment

Protozoans include malaria, giardiasis, amoebiasis, trichomoniasis, and toxoplasmosis. These are all organisms that can cause infection in humans. Malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium, and is spread by mosquitoes. Plasmodium falciparum infects red blood cells and is fatal in 1% of cases. Symptoms include recurrent fever and an anemia that is associated with [...]

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What Happened to Whitney Houston Explained in Plain English

By Doug Bremner On March 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Some of the readers of the Drug Safety and Health News Blog were a little confused about what really happened to pop entertainer Whitney Houston, what with the long delay in determining the cause of death and the conflicting and confusing [...]

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Launch of the “Catania” Film

By Doug Bremner On March 21, 2012 · 1 Comment

I wrote a screenplya called “Catania”, about five Italian sisters who return to their home to divide up the family art and furniture, when all hell breaks loose. Catania is co-written, directed, produced, acted in and/or line directed by Doug, Sabina, Dylan, Viola Bremner and/or Vaccarino, and many others. We are looking forward to casting [...]

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Soldier Accused of Killing Civilians in Afghanistan

By Doug Bremner On March 20, 2012 · 3 Comments

U.S. Soldier Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan. He claims to remember events earlier in the evening and later in the evening but having no memory of supposedly going to villages near his base and carrying out killings. By way of disclosure I will mention that he has hired as [...]

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Book Review of the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, from Minding Spot Blog

By Doug Bremner On March 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Review of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg from the Minding Spot blog by Wendy Hines, follow her on twitter @mindingspot.

From page one, I was swept up into Doug’s life. He was determined to get Accutane off of the market, it was killing thousands. Hoffman-La Roche, in turn, [...]

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Earth to DSM-5 Committee: Grief is not a Medical Disorder

By Doug Bremner On March 5, 2012 · 8 Comments

The DSM-5 committee in all its infinite wisdom wants to make grief a medical disorder (you can read more about my experiences with grief here). They are currently proposing to

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Hearts, a New Novel

By Doug Bremner On February 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment

You can follow my novel in progress Hearts, about a cardiac surgeon who can fix other people’s hearts but not his own, in real time as I write it on twitter @heartnovel. Follow “me” on twitter @dougbremner. If you don’t want to read the Hearts novel backwards, you can read it from the beginning on [...]

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