Penses

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Saturday, June 18, 2005

Penguin Swing

Feel like batting some penguins? What do you get when you combine a polarbear, a bat and penguins? Penguin swing. :)

Monday, June 13, 2005

Pain Relief Network

Pain Relief Network"Law enforcement is clamping down on doctors who prescribe high doses of the most powerful and dangerous pain killers. Is this protecting patients - or hurting them?

As Siobhan Reynolds, president of the patient advocacy group the Pain Relief Network sees it, chronic pain sufferers know what has worked for them in the past and they should be allowed to risk addiction if they so choose. ''Pain,'' says Reynolds, ''is an opioid deficiency syndrome.'' The idea of doctors debating whether to prescribe opioids is as absurd to her as ''diabetes specialists arguing about whether or not to use insulin.''

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Our Drugs Do Not Work On Most Patients

Glaxo Chief: "A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them."