Why is Cuba exporting its health care miracle to the world’s poor? by Sarah van Gelder Cubans say they offer health care to the world’s poor because they have big hearts. But what do they get in return? They live… Read More ›
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Lung cancer vaccine given to 2,000 Cubans
Iris de Armas Padrino THE Cuban CIMAVax-EGF vaccine, the only one of its kind in the world for the treatment of advanced lung cancer, has been administered to 2,000-plus Cubans, almost 5,000 of them within the Primary Health Care (APS)… Read More ›
Michael Parenti: Free-Market Medicine — A Personal Account
by Michael Parenti When I recently went to Alta Bates hospital for surgery, I discovered that legal procedures take precedence over medical ones. I had to sign intimidating statements about financial counseling, indemnity, patient responsibilities, consent to treatment, use of… Read More ›
Cuba Announces Release of the World’s First Lung Cancer Vaccine
HAVANA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — Cuban medical authorities have launched the sales of the world’s first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, local officials said on Tuesday. The CimaVax-EGF vaccine, as a result of a 25-year research into diseases related to… Read More ›
Cuba registers world’s first lung cancer vaccine
South Journal, HAVANA—Cuba registered the first therapeutic vaccine in the world against advanced lung cancer. Over 1 000 patients have been administered the vaccine known as CIMAVAX-EGF. Specialist Gisela Gonzalez, leader of the project at the Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center,… Read More ›
CimaVax-EGF: Cuba Announces Release Of First Lung Cancer Vaccine
Laura Hibbard After 25 years of research, Cuban officials have begun production on a vaccine for lung cancer, China’s Xinhuanet reported. The vaccine, or CimaVax-EGF, works through the active drug ingredient, which is based on “a protein we all have… Read More ›
Sexual Violence in America
by DAVID ROSEN Shame of the Nation Many sex-related stories captured popular attention in 2011. Most upsetting, many of the incidents involved sexual violence. Taken together, they indicate something bigger, deeper, taking place in America, a social crisis. It’s as… Read More ›
Two Abortion Providers Charged with Murder in MD.
(AP) WASHINGTON — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death… Read More ›
Michael Parenti: Occupy America
Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major cities and hundreds of other communities. Similar actions emerged in scores of other nations. For the first two weeks, the corporate-owned… Read More ›
To Cut Deficit, Obama Takes A Scalpel To Health Programs
President Obama’s plan to cut the deficit doesn’t exactly spare Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs. But he also doesn’t propose the sweeping sorts of changes envisioned by House Republicans earlier this year. The proposal to reduce the deficit… Read More ›
Surveys: Health insurance costs shifted to workers, even as premiums surge
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance continued to escalate this year even as the share of workers getting less generous coverage reached a new high, according to survey data released Tuesday. In 2011, for the first time, half of workers at… Read More ›
Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann’s Bashing Of HPV Vaccine
Now the nation’s pediatricians have waded deep and early into the race for the presidency. In an unusual instance of political fact-checking of a candidate’s statements by physicians themselves, the American Academy of Pediatrics has a tough prescription for Republican… Read More ›
It’s Not “Corporatism,” It’s Not “Crony Capitalism,” It’s Capitalism!
Chances are if you are reading this, you have spent a fair amount of time discussing the recent “Occupation” demonstrations which have sprung up all around the country. Anyone with a basic familiarity with the protests is aware that the… Read More ›
APL Testimony from Occupy Omaha
The following is a personal testimonial from an American Party of Labor cadre who attended the October 15th “Occupy Omaha” march in Omaha, Nebraska. October 15th was a busy day for Occupy Wall Street solidarity groups the world over, and… Read More ›
Statement from an Occupy Raleigh Participant
Something for nothing? The corporate media owned by the 1% are saying that we the people of Occupy Raleigh want something for nothing. Something for nothing? We are the 99%. We clean the toilets. We dig the coal. We pick… Read More ›
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