March 20, 2007
Sinus study: Antibiotics over prescribed
Mar 19
The researchers say the findings are troubling because overuse of antibiotics is leading to more virulent and even drug-resistent bacteria. Their concerns echo those of doctors who've studied the effectiveness of antibiotics on ear infections.
...Chronic rhinosinusitis, often called a sinus infection, is the inflammation of the sinus passages that lasts 12 weeks or longer. The acute version lasts for about four weeks.
Leopold said there are no approved drugs to treat sinus infections and no recommended course of treatment...
...according to the study, few cases of infection were caused by bacteria.
Dr. David Spiro, a pediatrician and professor at Oregon Health and
...For most sinus infections, Leopold suggests an alternate treatment of saline flushing, which can be bought over the counter and is much cheaper than prescription medicine.
"It's a very old remedy, but something I think we physicians have forgotten," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_he_me/sinus_study_antibiotic
Millions of flu shots to be destroyed
3/20/2007
Millions of doses of flu vaccine will expire at midnight June 30, unsold during this year's mild flu season and written off as trash. Still perfectly good, and possibly useful for a few more years, the vaccine will wind up being destroyed. This annual ritual is supposed to ensure that Americans get the most up-to-date vaccine…
… For years, policymakers have talked about letting doctors keep unused vaccine until new doses are in hand, donating leftover supplies to poor countries, or pushing back the expiration date. Wasted vaccine means lost money for drug companies and one stopped making flu shots because of it — setting the stage for a flu shot shortage in 2004.
Having no vaccine in the summer deprives travelers of the chance to get a shot before they visit places where flu is in season. It also prevents summer vaccinations for children, who need two doses the first time around…
…The June 30 expiration date is set by the federal Food and Drug Administration and has less to do with the vaccine's shelf life than with the desire to tweak the recipe each year to include the three strains causing the most cases....
…After the 2002-03 season, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals had to destroy a third of the 20 million doses it produced because of low sales. The company lost about $35 million and then dropped out of the flu shot business. A national shortage followed in October 2004, when Chiron Corp. lost a manufacturing license that deprived the nation of half of its flu shot supply during the height of vaccination season…
…Stockpiling leftover vaccine until new vaccine is available "doesn't sound like an unreasonable thing to be doing," said another vaccine scientist, Dr. Robert Belshe at
…Also, several recent studies showed that even poorly matched vaccine can still be highly effective — something to consider amid worries about bird flu and efforts to stockpile vaccine to protect in a pandemic.
More at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_he_me/wasted_flu_shots
The Air Car - zero pollution and very low running costs
3/19/2007
Many respected engineers have been trying for years to bring a compressed air car to market, believing strongly that compressed air can power a viable "zero pollution" car.
Now the first commercial compressed air car is on the verge of production and beginning to attract a lot of attention, and with a recently signed partnership with
The MiniC.A.T is a simple, light urban car, with a tubular chassis that is glued not welded and a body of fibreglass....
...The engine is fascinating, as is and the revolutionary electrical system that uses just one cable and so is the vehicle’s wireless control system. Microcontrollers are used in every device in the car, so one tiny radio transmitter sends instructions to the lights, indicators etc
Most importantly, it is incredibly cost-efficient to run – according to the designers, it costs less than one Euro per 100Km (about a tenth that of a petrol car). Its mileage is about double that of the most advanced electric car (200 to 300 km or 10 hours of driving), a factor which makes a perfect choice in cities where the 80% of motorists drive at less than 60Km. The car has a top speed of 68 mph.
...Refilling the car will, once the market develops, take place at adapted petrol stations to administer compressed air. In two or three minutes, and at a cost of approximately 1.5 Euros, the car will be ready to go another 200-300 kilometres.
As a viable alternative, the car carries a small compressor which can be connected to the mains (220V or 380V) and refill the tank in 3-4 hours.
Due to the absence of combustion and, consequently, of residues, changing the oil (1 litre of vegetable oil) is necessary only every 50,000 Km...
How does it work? Read more at http://www.gizmag.com/go/7000/
American forces liberate more than 200 abducted in Muqdadiya
March
American forces liberated more than two hundred hostages yesterday in villages in the district of Muqdadiya the majority of which are Iraqi police.
In Diyala police source who wished to remain anonymous confirmed that American forces repositioned in the villages and Ashakragh Sensl close to the town of
He added that the American forces had found several prisons belonging to al-Qaeda and containing more than two hundred abducted hostages. The source explained that the majority of the abductees are the elements of the police who had been abducted at different times and over a period of months.
http://www.burathanews.com/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=17343
FBI issues school-bus driver memo
Notice says extremists may be behind wheel (but not to worry)
March 17. 2007
Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the
Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said, "There are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although U.S. law enforcement agencies were asked to watch out for kids' safety. (then why are they becoming bus drivers?)
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070317/REPOSITORY/703170338/1013/NEWS03
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!! The Wizard of Oz
The Great Gorebal warming Swindle
Man Made Gorebal warming Debunked - Documentary shown on UK C4 TV
watch the video at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831&q=great+global+warming+swindle
Edwards Claims His Mega-Mansion is “Carbon Neutral”
20 Mar 2007
...Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards showed his best dance moves trying to avoid questions about how energy efficient his 28,000-square-foot mansion really is and how much the power bill costs each month.
The March 20 edition of CNN’s “American Morning” showed Edwards hyping gorebal warming, promoting his energy plan that mandates carbon caps and claiming that his new mega-McMansion was actually being operated in a “carbon-neutral way.” He has recently declared his campaign “carbon neutral.”
Edwards also avoided how he holds himself to one standard but wants to hold businesses to another. As anchor Miles O’Brien put it: “One of the keys to your plan is the so-called cap plan which would institute, as it suggests, caps on the amount of carbon dioxide industry can put into the environment.”
But when it comes to Edwards’ own life, he doesn’t cap his carbon efforts, preferring instead carbon offsets... (he currently isn't doing, he says "he's going to")
...During the CNN preview of his new energy plan, Edwards called for both a cap on current carbon dioxide emissions and “reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050, which is aggressive but achievable.”
...O’Brien asked about Edwards “getting Americans to conserve more.” Edwards responded with talk of conservation and then requirements. “One of the things that’s going to be required is for Americans to be willing to drive more fuel-efficient vehicles and to be willing to conserve and we want to help them do that.”
When O’Brien asked specifically about his house, Edwards turned into a dancing king. Asked about the cost of energy for the home, Edwards tried several answers:
- “It’s actually not bad.” And followed that up with talk of how energy efficient the home was.
- “I’m not telling you. It’s actually, it’s actually not bad. It’s about three or four hundred dollars, the last one I saw.”
- Following that claim, Edwards backed off a bit and said “the power bill is several hundred dollars a month.”
(How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?)
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070320125451.aspx
Sen. Edwards: "we’re going to purchase carbon credits on the market"
Me! Me! Me! I got some carbon credits I'm not using to sell! Look over heere! MEEEE!
Al Gorebal-warming Challenged to Climate Debate
Al Gorebal-warming has been challenged to an internationally televised debate on "climate change" by Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her leadership of the
...in November 2006, Monckton challenged a U.N. report on climate change as "hysteria" over manmade gorebal warming that distorts the truth.
A U.N. report in 1996 "showed a 1,000-year graph demonstrating that temperature in the Middle Ages was warmer than today," Monckton writes in the Sunday Telegraph.
"But the 2001 report contained a new graph showing no medieval warm period. It wrongly concluded that the 20th century was the warmest for 1,000 years . . .
"Scores of scientific papers show that the medieval warm period was real, global and up to [5 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than now.
"Then, there were no glaciers in the tropical
Monckton also writes that
In his most recent challenge to Gorebal-warming, Monckton calls on the former vice president to "step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world's poor.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/19/145933.shtml?s=ic
Selective Amnesia on firing US Attorneys
3/20/07
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/03/selective_amnesia_on_firing_us.html
Climate scientist sees cover-up by Bush
March 20, 2007
A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in gorebal warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years.
James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who argues gorebal warming could be catastrophic, said NASA staffers denied his request to do a National Public Radio interview because they didn't want his message to get out.
[And yet it is OK to muzzle global warming skeptics, like the state meteorologists for
But Republicans told him the hundreds of other interviews he did belie his broad claim he was being silenced.
"We have over 1,400 opportunities that you've availed yourself to, and yet you call it, you know, being stifled," said Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican.
Mr. Hansen responded: "For the sake of the taxpayers, they should be availed of my expertise. I shouldn't be required to parrot some company line."
…Mr. Issa noted that Mr. Hansen conducted 15 interviews in the month after accusing the Bush administration of censorship…
…Mr. Hansen was prohibited from doing the interview because of his prior refusal to notify NASA officials when he was granting interviews, not for political reasons…
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070320-120435-3136r.htm
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