Saturday, October 08, 2011

Here's a compendium of news from The New York Times: Kosovo organ trading ring paid as much as $20,000 for kidneys to people from Turkey or impoverished ex-Communist countries while selling them from $100,000 to $130,000; The United States Preventive Services Task Force no longer recommends mammographies for women under 40 or prostate cancer screening tests for men. These are still used in conjunction to the annual check-up regardless, thanks to many objections; The Pakistani government is thinking of filing charges against a doctor who ran a fraudulent vaccination program to try to locate Bin Laden; A Bedouin mosque was set on fire in Israel, probably by Jewish extremists. The government has already apologized. The Bedouins are a long time ally of Israel's; Alabama's Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn upheld what many consider the harshest law on illegal immigration yet: now people at routine traffic stops can be asked for immigration papers by state and local police, contracts involving illegal immigrants are no longer enforceable and schools are required to ascertain the immigration status of its population; an injectible hormonal contraceptive doubles the risk of HIV transmission than no injectable contraceptive at all; One of the Cuban Five was released from prison on probation after serving 13 years for nothing. He and the others were sent to the States legally thanks to an agreement between Cuba and the United States governments so as to infiltrate extreme rightist Cuban emigree terrorist organizations. The five instead were convicted by Federal Court decision; Severe schizophrenics show vast improvement on a variant of cognitive talk therapy.

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