medicalcondition:pain

Are Israelis Now Appropriating the Nakba? | Palestine Chronicle
http://palestinechronicle.com/are-israelis-now-appropriating-the-nakba

Triste transformation de al-Jazira.

Al Jazeera Stream contacted me a few days ago asking if I would participate on a show commemorating the Nakbe.  I would be the only Palestinian, the producer said, “to balance things out” amidst various Israeli voices.  Here’s the exact excerpt of the email:
“We are looking for a unique angle with which to cover this and one we were thinking of was looking at the Nakba through Israeli eyes and competing Israeli perspectives. We would also like to have a Palestinian guest join us on set however, to balance things out. As you noted, it would be 3-4 Israelis and just the one Palestinian – but as I said, the Israeli’s will include those very critical of Israeli society on this issue. We certainly wont have anyone in the discussion who flat out denies the Nakba.”

After thoughtful consideration and rumination on my initial impulse to refuse, I responded as follows:
“I have considered your invitation and it frankly pains me that you would conceive of such a forum.  However, I suspect that others may consider going the same route in the future and I am willing to come on merely to repudiate and discourage such a conversation from taking place again.  As such, I would appear only under the following circumstances:

...

’Seven-inch forceps left sewn inside me for three months’ (From Worcester News)
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/10411621._Seven_inch_forceps_left_sewn_inside_me_for_three_months_

A HOSPITAL blunder saw a seven-inch pair of forceps sewn up inside a patient following a routine operation at a Worcestershire hospital.

Mother-of-four Donna Bowett was left in agony for three months before an
X-ray revealed the instrument sewn up inside her following a routine operation at the Alexander Hospital in Redditch.

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/resources/images/2444431.jpg

Un forceps de 18 cm laissé 3 mois dans le patient à la suite d’une opération à la vésicule biliaire… (la photo fait mal !)

Avant de lui faire la radio qui a découvert l’engin, elle a subi un IRM et donc l’attraction magnétique qui s’exerçait sur les pinces.

Vote (serré) attendu aujourd’hui à la Chambre des représentants de l’Illinois pour autoriser l’utilisation médicale de la #marijuana

Doctors ask for medical marijuana legalization - SFGate
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doctors-ask-for-medical-marijuana-legalization-4438625.php

CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly 250 Illinois physicians put their names behind a proposal Tuesday that would legalize marijuana for patients with serious illnesses, hoping to give a boost to the legislation one day before an anticipated vote on the House floor.
Three of those doctors spoke at a press conference in Chicago, saying the drug can be a safer and more effective treatment than narcotics for patients with diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s disease and HIV.
(…)
The Illinois House is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would create a medical marijuana pilot program. It would allow physicians who have an existing relationship with a patient to prescribe marijuana for certain conditions.

Patients would be limited to buying 2.5 ounces [70 g] at a time from dispensaries licensed and regulated by the state. They would be prohibited from growing their own marijuana, and both patients and caregivers would have to undergo a background check.

The vote in the House is expected to be close. If it passes the legislation still must go to the Senate.

Why Medication Can Be Dangerous to Your Health- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/why-medication-can-be-dan_b_643690.html

Did you know that the majority of FDA approved drugs have serious potential side effects that were not detected before marketing approval? (1)

That about three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the U.S. because of adverse drug reactions, according to the CDC? (2)

That the number of medication-related deaths in the U.S. is estimated at over 200,000 a year, making medications the third or fourth leading cause of death in this country? (3)

1) Manag Care Interface. 2005 Oct;18(10):49-52 “Preventing adverse drug reactions in the general population” Pezalla E.

2) JAMA. 2006 Oct 18;296(15):1858-66. “National surveillance of emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events.” Budnitz DS, Pollock DA, Weidenbach KN, Mendelsohn AB, Schroeder TJ, Annest JL

3) Pezzalla E., Manag Care Interface. 2005 Oct;18(10):49-52

Palestinian prisoner was cancer-stricken for ’years’: autopsy report
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israel-kills-two-youths-palestine-seethes-over-prisoners-death

Deceased Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh had been stricken with cancer for ’years’ and was treated with improper medication, official doctors from the Palestinian Authority and Jordan have found.

Israeli doctors did not stop Abu Hamdiyeh’s cancer from spreading, although he had been complaining of bodily pains since 2003, Palestinian Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe said Thursday as he announced the results of an autopsy.

Case Summaries 2013 | Defence for Children International Palestine
http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/case-summaries-2013

Lawyers and fieldworkers for DCI-Palestine collect sworn affidavits from Palestinian children detailing violations of their rights. These affidavits are taken in Arabic and further reviewed by trained staff to determine appropriate follow-up action. Each year, hundreds of these affidavits are translated into English from which brief case summaries are produced.

L’une des controverses au Bahreïn concernant la cause de décès particulièrement en détention a tourné autour de la maladie d’anémie à hématite falciforme...
Enquête de la BBC sur un possible lien avec l’usage des gaz lacrymogènes.

A large rise in the number of sickle cell disease deaths in Bahrain has prompted concern.

The Gulf island kingdom has a high incidence of the genetic red blood cell disease, but in 2012 the number of people in Bahrain who died from sickle cell disease (SCD) rose from 32 the previous year to 50.

Two experts contacted by the BBC have said that the rise may be linked to the heavy use of teargas by security forces policing unrest in the kingdom.

Ce qui est sur c’est que le conflit a et aura de lourdes conséquences sur la santé publique.

Dr Haji [arrested at Salmaniya hosptial in April 2011, coerced into confession, sentenced and later acquitted] told the BBC she attributed the rise in SCD deaths to three factors.

One was the reduction in health services that had resulted from the arrests and prosecution of medical staff, a total of 48 from the hospital.

The second was what she called the “decimation” of the ICU when four of the five consultants were arrested and the fifth fled the country.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, she says that people, even those in acute crisis, are often afraid to come to the hospital for fear of interrogation and arrest.

Despite its heavy use Dr Haji says, exposure to tear gas is “massively under reported”.

“A bystander in the street, someone in a house that has been gassed, these are people not involved in demonstrating but still they are afraid they will be interrogated by security at the hospital even before they have received treatment, so they don’t come.”

Severe SCD episodes, regardless of how they are triggered, need to be dealt with quickly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21601022

[Égypte : la peur et l’initiative changent de camp] Quelques leçons qu’on peut tirer des affrontements du 22 mars et comment la révolution a encore franchi une étape | LE JURA LIBERTAIRE

http://juralib.noblogs.org/2013/03/26/egypte-la-peur-et-linitiative-changent-de-camp-quelques-lecons-quon

J’ai personnellement l’impression qu’il y a une sorte de black out en France autour de ce qu’il se passe en Égypte actuellement. Cet article, même s’il manque de sources, me paraît significatif d’un bouleversement de la situation là-bas. Je m’excuse d’avance pour ceux et celles qui lisent fréquemment le site du Jura libertaire.
L’auteur, Jacques Chastaing, participe à Contretemps et à Carré rouge, d’après ce que j’ai pu trouver sur Internet.

Les policiers et les islamistes ont peur

Lors de la révolution du 25 janvier 2011, les Égyptiens disaient que le principal acquis de la révolution était qu’ils n’avaient plus peur.

Deux ans et deux mois après, sous le régime militaire du CSFA ou celui des Frères Musulmans et leurs alliés salafistes et jihadistes, malgré l’utilisation régulière par les forces de police de balles réelles contre des manifestants pacifiques faisant des milliers de blessés et des centaines de morts, malgré les 12 à 15’000 condamnations à la prison de manifestants, malgré les tribunaux militaires pour les civils, les violences des milices islamiques, les détentions illégales, la torture y compris à l’encontre des enfants, les centres de détentions illégaux livrés au sadisme de tortionnaires, les obligations aux tests de virginité pour les manifestantes, leurs viols fréquents, malgré les arrestations arbitraires, des procureurs aux ordres, les mensonges, les fabrications de preuves, les faux examens médicaux, les multiples lois qui restreignent ou interdisent grèves et manifestations, malgré les lois martiales et les couvre feux, malgré les chars dans les rues, devant les écoles et les usines, malgré les menaces des chefs religieux musulmans ou chrétiens que les manifestants finissent brûlés en enfer, malgré les appels de l’opposition laïque du FSN au calme et aux manifestations pacifiques, malgré sa dénonciation des manifestants qui se défendent comme ils peuvent face à la violence institutionnelle, malgré ses projets actuels de co-gouverner avec les salafistes et les Frères Musulmans, malgré tout cela, la violence policière du régime ne fait plus rentrer les gens chez eux, terrorisés, mais les fait au contraire descendre dans la rue encore plus nombreux, encore plus en colère, encore plus déterminés et conscients.

#deuxieme_revolution #troisieme_revolution

Women and the Treatment of Pain - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/women-and-the-treatment-of-pain.html?src=un

Pain conditions are a particularly good example of the interplay between sex (our biological and chromosomal differences) and gender (the cultural roles and expectations attributed to a person). In 2011, the Institute of Medicine published a report on the public health impact of chronic pain, called “Relieving Pain in America.” It found that not only did women appear to suffer more from pain, but that women’s reports of pain were more likely to be dismissed.

This is a serious problem, because pain is subjective and self-reported, and diagnosis and treatment depend on the assumption that the person reporting symptoms is beyond doubt.

The oft-cited study “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain” found that women were less likely to receive aggressive treatment when diagnosed, and were more likely to have their pain characterized as “emotional,” “psychogenic” and therefore “not real.”

Instead of appropriate care for physical pain, this can lead to treatment for mental health issues that might not even exist.

What if the ‘sexual headache’ is not a joke ? | British Journal of Medical Practitioners (Vol. 3 number 1, mars 2010)
http://www.bjmp.org/content/what-if-sexual-headache-not-joke

ABSTRACT
Headaches and sexual activity are often treated with humour as a typical way for women to reject male advances. However, headaches associated with sexual activity can be anything but a joke.

HSA (headaches associated with sexual activity) are by definition benign conditions but the symptoms can be the same as in serious life threatening cerebral conditions and these need to be quickly excluded at the first presentation. Most sexual headaches are of a benign nature. However, the first time an HSA occurs it can be a traumatic, frightening occurrence for the patient.

(…)

Prevalence 
HSA are not common but it is generally felt that they are under-reported due to patient embarrassment at telling health professionals when their headaches occur. Prevalence in the general population is reported at around 1% and is greater in men than in women, by 3-4 times. There appear to be two peak times of onset: in the early 20s and then around age 40. About 22% of HSA are Type 1 and 78% are Type 2. The male:female ratio is the same for Type 1 and Type 2 headache.

Prévalence en population générale 1%, sans doute sous-estimée du fait de sous-déclaration. Mal de crâne lié à l’activité sexuelle 3 à 4 fois plus fréquent chez l’homme que chez la femme.

Type 1, type 2 d’après la société savante ad hoc

International Headache Society diagnostic criteria - ICHD-2 classification for HSA

1 Pre-orgasmic headache
A. Dull ache in the head and neck associated with awareness of neck and/or jaw muscle contraction and fulfilling criterion B.
B. Occurs during sexual activity and increases with sexual excitement
C. Not attributed to another disorder
2 Orgasmic headache
A. Sudden severe (“explosive”) headache fulfilling criteria B
B. Occurs at orgasm
C. Not attributed to another disorder

Tombé dessus par l’intermédiaire d’un article de l’AGI (Agenzia Giornalistica Italia) du 23/12/12 faisant référence à cette étude.
http://www.agi.it/cronaca/notizie/201212221916-cro-rt10188-pornografia_mal_di_testa_post_coito_anche_con_filmini_h

Les films porno peuvent aussi donner lieu au mal de crâne post-coïtum.

10,000 march in Dublin for woman who died after being denied abortion « MasterAdrian’s Weblog
http://masteradrian.com/2012/11/20/10000-march-in-dublin-for-woman-who-died-after-being-denied-abortion

10,000 march in Dublin for woman who died after being denied abortion
11/19/2012 8:30am by John Aravosis 18 Comments Print

In the run up to the US elections, I missed a story from Ireland of Savita Halappanavar, a 31 year old Irish dentist, who died on October 28 because a hospital refused her emergency request for an abortion to save her life.

The 31-year-old, who was 17 weeks pregnant with her first child, died Oct. 28 one week after being hospitalized with severe pain at the start of a miscarriage. Her death, made public by her husband this week, has highlighted Ireland’s long struggle to come to grips with abortion.

Doctors refused her requests to remove the fetus until its heartbeat stopped four days after her hospitalization. Hours later she became critically ill and her organs began to fail. She died three days later from blood poisoning. Her widower and activists say she could have survived, and the spread of infection been stopped, had the fetus been removed sooner.

abortion rally dublin Savita Halappanavar

Ten Thousand People Attended A Rally In Dublin In Memory Of Savita Halappanavar. Photo by William Murphy.

Ten days earlier, Republican Congressman Joe Walsh (since defeated) spoke out against “life of the mother” exception to total abortion bans because, as Walsh put it, “modern technology” makes it so that the life of the mother is no longer ever in danger from a pregnancy.

Walsh said he was against abortion “without exception,” including rape, incest and in cases in which the life or health of the mother was in jeopardy.

Asked by reporters after the debate if he was saying that it’s never medically necessary to conduct an abortion to save the life of a mother, Walsh responded, “Absolutely.”

“With modern technology and science, you can’t find one instance,” he said. “… There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.”

Found one.

As the AP story in the Post points out, abortion is banned in the Irish constitution (the same brilliant idea Republicans would like to try here). The Irish Supreme Court found twenty years ago that an abortion could be permitted to save the life of the mother, but Ireland’s politicians have refused to enact legislation defining when exactly a hospital can conduct an abortion, so they don’t. And women die.

abortion dublin ireland rally

Photo by William Murphy.

And lest anyone doubt the Republican’s party’s extremism, the GOP called in their platform this year for the exact same rule of law on abortion that they have in Ireland – well, and even less, since the Republicans didn’t even mention the life of the mother:

Even as the Republican establishment continued to call for Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to drop out of his Senate race because of his comments on rape and abortion, Republicans approved platform language on Tuesday calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

The anti-abortion plank, approved by the Republican platform committee Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla., was similar to the planks Republicans have included in their recent party platforms, which also called for a constitutional ban on abortions.

Vegetative patient free of pain : Nature
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/vegetative-patient-free-of-pain.html

A man thought to have been in a vegetative state for twelve years told doctors he is not in pain.

The patient communicated through a question-and-answer technique using fMRI imaging developed by University of Western Ontario’s Adrian Owen.

#santé #recherche #médecine #coma

Legal drugs, deadly outcomes
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/prescription/la-me-prescription-deaths-20121111-html,0,2363903.htmlstory

Prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine.

An L.A. Times review of coroners’ records finds that drugs prescribed by a
small number of doctors caused or contributed to a disproportionate number of deaths.

#santé #pharma

Torture UK: why Britain has blood on its hands (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/19/torture-uk-britain-blood-government?CMP=twt_gu

When the US and its allies went to war in Afghanistan in 2001, it was inevitable that a small number of those captured on the battlefield would be British. For more than a decade, MI5 had been aware that British Muslims had been travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan in what it saw as a form of jihadi tourism that posed no threat to the UK. All that changed after 9/11. (...) Source: The Guardian

Longue enquête de Ian Cobain : comment la Grande Bretagne a participé aux actes de torture contre ses propres citoyens
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/19/torture-uk-britain-blood-government?CMP=twt_gu

The UK would do more than offer mere logistics support to the rendition programme, however. It would become an enthusiastic participant. And, as I discovered, this would not be the first time it was involved with the torture of its own citizens.

The Violence of the Revolution Between Legitimacy and Deviance: Syria and the Need for Corrective Action (via Angry Arab)
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/7743/the-violence-of-the-revolution-between-legitimacy-

Where does the armed opposition, or what is called the Free Army or several other names, derive its popular legitimacy when it carries out sectarian assassinations, torture, humiliation, and executions against its prisoners from amongst the [regime’s] security services and army? This was precisely what we described as brutality when it was committed by the criminal regime. Where does it derive its popular legitimacy when it speaks of a war between Sunnis and Shi’is, or Alawis, as is wished for by those that call themselves the Friends of Syria or the friends of the regime? What distinguishes the discourse of the opposition from the discourse of the regime when one of them speaks of Sunnis, Shi’is, and Alawis, while the other speaks of Salafis, Islamists, and terrorists? Both discourses operate beneath the national level, which gathers and views all as equal with respect to human rights. Both discourses indirectly call for a long-term Iraq-like divisive civil war. How can the people consider the armed opposition to be the military arm of the revolution, for which one of its principles were “one, one, one … the Syrian people are one,” and that offered the lives of its sons for the sake of building a civilian state, not a religious emirate or a Muslim Brotherhood state? If we take into consideration the external role of exporting a militant religious or Salafist discourse—that is a stranger to the moderate religious discourse of Syrian society—to the ranks of combat battalions, then this only increases the deviation of the revolution from its national level. In this view, the enemy is no longer the sectarian authoritarian Syrian regime, but rather the Alawis, the Shi’is, or other categories of people.

Pain drug can kill resistant tuberculosis | e! Science News
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/09/10/pain.drug.can.kill.resistant.tuberculosis

An off-patent anti-inflammatory drug that costs around two cents for a daily dose in developing countries has been found by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College to kill both replicating and non-replicating drug resistant tuberculosis in the laboratory — a feat few currently approved TB drugs can do, and resistance to those is spreading. Their findings, published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, point to a potential new therapy for the more than 500,000 people worldwide whose TB has become resistant to standard drug treatments. But the researchers worry that the effective drug, oxyphenbutazone, may never be tested in TB clinical trials.

(...) “It is difficult today to launch clinical studies on a medication that is so outdated in the United States, that it is mainly used here in veterinary medicine to ease pain,” says the study’s senior author, Dr. Nathan, chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology, and the director of The Abby and Howard Milstein Program in the Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease at Weill Cornell. “No drug firm will pay for clinical trials if they don’t expect to make a profit on the agent. And that would be the case for an off-patent drug that people can buy over the counter for pain in most of the world.”

He adds that oxyphenbutazone, best known under the trademark name of Tandearil, does have some established toxicities, “and is not a drug you should take for aches and pains if a safer alternative is available.”

#cdp #santé #tuberculose #résistante #pharma #brevets

#Nathaniel_Mayer - I Found Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prJUmn9MBPc

Makana, Mandela, Marikana — endings and beginnings | Charlene Smith
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/charlenesmith/2012/08/20/makana-mandela-marikana-endings-and-beginnings

At Marikana we saw the product of a fat and lazy cabinet. At Marikana: in those policemen we saw the result of two corrupt commissioners of police — one of whom was recently released early from jail. Our police are poorly trained, badly equipped, and scared. We saw in Lonmin the sort of uncaring corporate bullying that we see with the banks. And among the miners we saw the desperation the poor experience, we saw in their violence the futile rage that unless South Africans wake up and start pushing for social justice — that rage will sweep across the nation.

#répression #apartheid #afrique_du_sud (ça clashe aussi dans le forum)

Retro Cultural: The subtle interplay of Information and Immortality.
http://retrocult.blogspot.nl/2012/07/subtle-interplay-of-information-and.html

How our true nature is that one of information, and how it is the only way of becoming immortal.

The mere suggestion of side effects is sometimes enough to bring on negative symptoms... Meet the nocebo effect - placebo’s evil twin : http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/07/what-is-the-nocebo-effect

Human corpses harvested in multimillion-dollar trade
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/human-corpses-harvested-in-multimilliondollar-trade-20120717-2278v.html

The seized documents suggested that the remains of dead Ukrainians were destined for a factory in Germany belonging to the subsidiary of a US medical products company, Florida-based RTI Biologics.

#globalisation #trafic #santé #pharma

Une décision de tribunal allemand qui définit la circumcision mâle comme étant une atteinte au droit fondémental à l’intégrité corporelle sanctionnée par la loi vient de provoquer des appels pour la création de lois autorisant explicitement la circumcision si elle est exécutée pour des raisons religieuses.
Les auteurs de ces initiatives négligent le fait qu’in n’y a pas d’unanimité sur la question au sein des groupes religieuses même. Les parlementaires et membres du gouvernement allemand prennent donc position pour certaines personnes au sein des groupement religieux et contre d’autres qui ne partagent pas les positions des premiers.

Au lieu de donner mon opinion sur le sujet, je vous propose quelques liens vers des articles scientifiques et prises de position juves et muselmanes.

Foreskin Sexual Function/Circumcision Sexual Dysfunction http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function
L’introduction précédant la liste explique :

The foreskin protects the glans penis from friction and from dryness. The glans penis is covered with mucosa, not skin, so the wetness is essential for optimum health.

Circumcision has long been associated with an increased incidence of impotence.

The most recent study finds that the intact penis is about four times more sensitive than the circumcised penis.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Fl%C3%BCgelretabel_aus_Brabant_Berlin_Beschneidung.jpg
Beschneidung Jesu, Brabanter Flügelretabel, um 1480

Le dogme religieux n’est pas partagé part tous les juifs, ni par tous les muselmans :

Jews against Circumcision http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.com

We are a group of educated and enlightened Jews who realize that the barbaric, primitive, torturous, and mutilating practice of circumcision has no place in modern Judaism.

Rabbi Moses Maimonides himself acknowledged that circumcision is done to desensitize the penis and curb masturbation.

Jews are some of the smartest people in the world. We are 1/3rd of 1% of the population, yet we hold 33% of Nobel prizes. We are smart enough to understand that mutilating a little boys’ penis is not an acceptable practice in modern times.

QuranicPath.com http://www.quranicpath.com/misconceptions/circumcision.html

In numerous Verses of the Qur’an, Allah tells us that He has created everything, including human beings, in the most perfect form. In the following verse, Allah explicitly states this with regards to the human creation: “We have indeed created man in the ’best of moulds’.” (Qur’an 95:4) This means when a baby leaves the mother’s womb, he or she is in the most perfect of shape down to the finest detail. Nothing needs alteration.

...
All these verses tell us that Allah creates human beings, male and female, perfectly in the mother’s womb. The design of the foreskin on the male is an intentional act of creation. Allah did not make a ’mistake’ in designing the foreskin of the male. He does not need mankind to take a knife and start cutting off a part of the penis on males, as if though it is a ’corrective procedure’ to a design flaw.

L’article sur quranicpath.com continue en expliquant comment la circumcision modifie le tissu nerveux et en conséquence l’acte sexuel.

Après la lecture des articles cités l’opposition à la circumcision masculine et féminine me semble dépasser le cadre d’une question de principe.

Apologies to Mexico
http://www.thenation.com/article/168803/apologies-mexico

Dear Mexico,
 
I apologize. There are so many things I could apologize for, from the way the US biotech corporation Monsanto has contaminated your corn to the way Arizona and Alabama are persecuting your citizens, but right now I’d like to apologize for the drug war, the 10,000 waking nightmares that make the news and the rest that don’t.

#mexique #narco

SyrWishes
Massacre, blood, screams, fear, pain, sorrow, blood, souls, kids, crying, blood, searching, shock, running, pain, blood, blood,blood #Syria