DON’T LET OBAMA’S LIES ABOUT EBOLA KILL YOU
“If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.” – Bertrand Russell, 1951 “In the event that I am...
View ArticleFEMA conducts pandemic training in N.Y., N.J.
Titled “2013-14 Pandemic Influenza Continuity Exercise Strategy,” the FEMA training simulates a global pandemic of influenza that spreads from person to person, including in the U.S. The Obama...
View ArticleTreating Ebola
As a historian of epidemics, I study contagious crises from the safe distance of a century or more. But as a physician watching the spread of deadly Ebola, I have been agonizing over my responsibility...
View ArticleAn Ebola 'Czar' Won’t Stop Ebola. But What Can He Do?
All right, we have an Ebola "czar" now. Realistically, what can we expect from him, and from the U.S. response to the outbreak? So far, each new Ebola development in the United States -- from the first...
View ArticleEbola nurse moved to National Institutes of Health
The hearing was being held as the United Nations World Health Organization announced from Geneva that this week the total number of confirmed cases worldwide is expected to exceed 9,000, with deaths...
View ArticleEbola Containment?
The American value system embodies an individualist, self-indulgent, for-profit (above all else) mindset and corresponding institutionalized practice that makes the national response to the Ebola virus...
View ArticleLet the Democrats Rot
When considering elections in the U.S. the tendency is for voters to look at the issues placed in front of them rather than at history, political trajectory and who it is that chooses the issues? On...
View ArticleEbola, Capitalism and the Idea of Society
Thomas Duncan when he entered Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with Ebola. The hospital claims that he was initially turned away because important information about his condition didn’t find its way...
View ArticleEbola-stricken nurse being flown to Washington
Federal health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased from lawmakers who questioned whether the nation is prepared to...
View ArticleObama urges Americans not to give in to Ebola hysteria
* Obama says sealing off region could exacerbate Ebola * WHO promises review of its handling of Ebola * Canada says it will ship vials of experimental vaccine to WHO * British PM: EU should pledge $1.3...
View ArticleEmpire or Republic: Imperial Wars and Domestic Epidemics “You Can’t Have Wars...
Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; training,...
View ArticleEbola-stricken nurse being flown to Washington
Federal health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased from lawmakers who questioned whether the nation is prepared to...
View ArticleStay focused on the real Ebola crisis - the one in Africa: Cynthia Tucker
If there is no genuine crisis, a manufactured one will have to do. By Cynthia Tucker During the summer, I got hooked on a TNT drama called "The Last Ship," an apocalyptic thriller about a global...
View ArticleBefore the Ebola Factor: Instability of Technological Infrastructure amidst...
Community resilience will be as important as personal health and natural immunity for preventing the worst Ebola scenarios or similar calamities. It is safe to count on some resilience in the face of...
View ArticleUS officials defend Ebola response; First infected nurse moved to Maryland
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased from lawmakers who questioned whether the nation is...
View ArticleUS officials defend Ebola response; nurse moved
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased from lawmakers who questioned whether the nation is...
View ArticleEbola-stricken nurse being flown to Washington
Federal health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased from lawmakers who questioned whether the nation is prepared to...
View ArticleThe Real War of the Worlds: Infectious Diseases Are the Deadly Invaders...
President's Proposed Discretionary Spending (Fiscal Year 2015) Facebook Twitter Pinterest × View full size President's Proposed Discretionary Spending (Fiscal Year 2015) WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 28, 2014...
View ArticleThe profit motive would allow us to improve our health care system, says the MEI
MONTREAL, Nov. 6, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - During a talk he gave last week, Finance Minister Carlos Leitao said that certain health care and educational services could be provided more efficiently if they...
View Article/R E P E A T -- The profit motive would allow us to improve ...
MONTREAL, Nov. 6, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - During a talk he gave last week, Finance Minister Carlos Leitao said that certain health care and educational services could be provided more efficiently if they...
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