Air Pollution Strongly Linked to Diabetes : Discovery News: "What's causing the diabetes epidemic in the United States? Poor diet, lack of exercise, obesity, and a smoking habit are commonly cited as the big factors. But what about pollution in the environment, and specifically air pollution? Could small particles from haze, smoke and car exhaust have a hand in doubling the number of diagnosed cases of the disease over the last 15 years?
A new study argues there is a strong link between pollution and diabetes rates, and that even current pollution limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency may not be stringent enough to protect us from harm."
Syphilis Experiment Is Revealed, Prompting U.S. Apology to Guatemala - NYTimes.com: "From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin.
American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even paid for syphilis-infected prostitutes to sleep with prisoners, since Guatemalan prisons allowed such visits. When the prostitutes did not succeed in infecting the men, some prisoners had the bacteria poured onto scrapes made on their penises, faces or arms, and in some cases it was injected by spinal puncture.
If the subjects contracted the disease, they were given antibiotics.
“However, whether everyone was then cured is not clear,” said Susan M. Reverby, the professor at Wellesley College who brought the experiments to light in a research paper that prompted American health officials to investigate."
American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even paid for syphilis-infected prostitutes to sleep with prisoners, since Guatemalan prisons allowed such visits. When the prostitutes did not succeed in infecting the men, some prisoners had the bacteria poured onto scrapes made on their penises, faces or arms, and in some cases it was injected by spinal puncture.
If the subjects contracted the disease, they were given antibiotics.
“However, whether everyone was then cured is not clear,” said Susan M. Reverby, the professor at Wellesley College who brought the experiments to light in a research paper that prompted American health officials to investigate."
CNN Fires Rick Sanchez for Remarks About Jon Stewart - NYTimes.com: "Rick Sanchez, a daytime anchor at CNN, was fired on Friday, a day after telling a radio interviewer that Jon Stewart was a bigot and that “everybody that runs CNN is a lot like Stewart.”"
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