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PAHO's Emergency Operations Center will play a key role in regional surveillance under the new International Health Regulations. The center will serve as a clearinghouse for outbreak and hazard communications, with staff on call 24/7 to provide "continuous, proactive epidemic intelligence." (Photo Sonia Mey-Schmidt/PAHO) .
Obama Hits Below the Belt in New Ad
While I've been critical of Barack Obama, especially there being so little substance behind his hope-and-change message, I've been far more critical of Hillary Clinton. But the Obama campaign's new direct-mail ads (and I've gotten three earlier ads compared to none from Clinton or any other candidates) hit below the belt: They intentionally misrepresent Clinton's health-care plan and are a reminder of the also misleading "Harry and Louise" ads aired by the health-care industry that did much to bring down her sweeping 1993 health-care proposal. The Obama ads claim that everyone will be forced to buy insurance under the Clinton plan even if they can't afford it, which is plain old fear mongering since her plan offers subsidies to lower-income families and Obama himself has conceded that under his own plan people who don't buy insurance might have to be penalized.
The Richardson File: The Santa Fe New Mexican follows the governor's ...
Unless the Legislature and Gov. Bill Richardson agree to change state law, New Mexicans may never have a chance to vote in next year’s primary election for some of the Democrats and Republicans running for Congress or statewide offices. That’s because of a law that took effect this year that potentially restricts ballot access for candidates. As it stands now, Democratic and GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House and a state Supreme Court position can earn a place on the June primary ballot only if they receive at least 20 percent of the votes of delegates at their party’s preprimary nominating convention. In the past, candidates who fell short of that 20 percent threshold — as well as those who skipped the preprimary conventions — still could get on the ballot by submitting additional petitions with signatures of registered voters to the secretary of state.
MannKind to Present at the Merrill Lynch Global Pharmaceutical ...
VALENCIA, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD) , focused on discovering, developing and commercializing treatments for diabetes and cancer, announced today that it will present at the Merrill Lynch Global Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Medical Device Conference on February 6, 2008 at 1:40 PM ET at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, NY. Interested parties can access a link to the live web cast of the presentation in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://www.mannkindcorp.com. A replay of the presentation will be available for 14 days. About MannKind Corporation MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD) focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products for diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
Coastal Post Online
Olema with its three way blinking stop light serves as an unofficial gateway to West Marin. The warmth of another hearth and food prepared by someone else's loving hands have drawn twenty four grateful working women together for a knitting retreat and Beth Brown-Reinsel has come from Maryland to show us how to knit old style Fair Isle cardigans - with Steeks - an intimidating procedure of actually cutting through knitted stitches before rebinding them.
Fair Isle is one of the Shetland isles which lie north of mainland Scotland. In 700 A.D. the Vikings arrived and for the next six hundred plus years- one way or another - ruled and raided the Islands and mainland Scotland. Those Viking warriors brought their women, sheep, ponies and their knitting. The Island people still have an affinity to their Nordic ancestry, now interwoven with that of Scotland.
How Edmund Hillary conquered Everest
At 6.30am on May 29 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary crawled out of his tent into the bitterly cold snow and gusting winds of Mount Everest to begin the final stage of one of the most audacious adventures of the 20th century. Rising more than 1,100ft above the Auckland beekeeper and his Nepalese climbing partner, the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the mountain's summit awaited its first visitors. Behind them, a single tiny tent - Camp IX, the highest in history - perched on a double ledge 27,900ft above sea level as testimony to years of painstaking preparation. 'He showed us the way' What happened over the next five hours became part of climbing legend and world history. But the story of Hillary and Tenzing's capture of mountaineering's ultimate prize goes back more than 11 weeks to March 10, when the 1953 British Everest Expedition, led by John Hunt, an Army colonel, set off on foot from Kathmandu.
Profound' changes to Quebec health care proposed
A task force has proposed "profound" changes to Quebec's health care system, including a greater role for the private sector and a bigger contribution from taxpayers. Among the working group's more radical proposals is that doctors be allowed under certain restrictions to practise in both the public and private systems and that private insurance companies be authorized to insure services currently covered under the public health program. The government should also allow private firms to manage hospitals by testing their efficiency through pilot projects that could eventually lead to "productive new options" according to the report. The head of the task force, former Liberal minister and insurance company executive Claude Castonguay, said people are demanding changes to an "incoherent and rigid" system and should be given the freedom to choose the kind of health care services they want.
Another push from a Bush
Indiana has more money than any athletic department in the country and it's afraid of spending a couple million dollars to rid itself of perpetual phone caller Kelvin Sampson. The only price to be paid now is Indiana players hearing opposing pep bands playing the Blondie classic "Call Me" from now until the end of the season Mike Bibby was the last King standing from the great playoff teams, and if he wasn't the best player, he's the one who did the most to push the 2002 Kings to the brink of the Western Conference championship, and presumably, an NBA title. The rest of this season is going to seem like an eternity for deal-busting Maverick Devean George. The Warriors wouldn't make it out of the round, but after last week's 120-118 win over the Suns, it's hard not to dream of a Golden State-Phoenix playoff series.
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