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La raza humana puede sobrevivir perfectamente sin un interminable repertorio de fármacos nuevos, pero la industria farmacéutica no. Las diez compañías farmacéuticas mayores, formar el conglomerado Bigpharma que controla en mercado farmacéutico mundial Investiga el problema del acceso a medicamentos esenciales en los países en desarrollo, teniendo en cuenta aspectos económicos, políticos, médicos y perspectivas sociales. ¿Por qué quince millones de personas mueren de enfermedades fácilmente curables en el hemisferio sur cada año?

Robert Sapolsky - Stress and Health : From Molecules to Societies

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Description: Few Westernized humans are likely to die of scarlet fever, malaria or malnutrition. Instead, we live well enough and long enough to succumb to the diseases of slow degeneration. It is increasingly recognized that a large percentage of such diseases can be caused by or worsened by stress. This lecture approaches the subject of stress and health from two very different perspectives.

To learn more about Dr. Sapolsky, visit : http://wals.od.nih.gov/2009-2010/october2009x.html

Homens em Extinção (2007)

- Título Original: The Disappearing Male, 2007, (42 minutos)
- Direcçao: Marc de Guerre, CBC.
- País: Canadá.
- Narrado PT

Homens em Extinção (The Disappering Male) é um documentário produzido pela CBC em 2007, que aborda um assunto de extrema importância para o futuro da humanidade. A poluição tóxica, que afecta a capacidade reprodutiva dos homens.

Nas últimas décadas, tem-se verificado um aumento dramático nos casos de cancro e outras enfermidades, relacionadas com o orgão reprodutor masculino. Este documentário, tenta responder a estas questões, averiguando a possibilidade de este fenómeno estar intimamente ligado ao meio ambiente.

Homens em extinção, revela-nos como o mundo que criamos, desde os champôs, perfumes a todo o tipo de plásticos, afecta-nos com consequências imprevisíveis para a nossa saúde. - Sinopse de Malandro

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TEDxManhattan - Robert S Lawrence MD - Effects of a High Meat Diet on Public Health

http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2012talks

Robert S. Lawrence, MD is the Center for a Livable Future Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with joint appointments as Professor of Health Policy, International Health, and Medicine. He is the founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, which supports research and develops policies related to the public health impacts of industrial food animal production, improving food security, and adopting healthier diets. Dr. Lawrence graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine at the MGH. He has been a faculty member of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina and Harvard. From 1980 to 1991 he served as chief of medicine at the Cambridge Hospital. From 1991 to 1995 he directed the Health Sciences Division at the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the founding director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), serves on the Board of Directors of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and is a member of the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Open Society Institute.

More information at http://www.tedxmanhattan.org

David Wallinga - Raising Pigs & Problems: Saying No to Antibiotics in Animal Feed

http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2012talks

Physician, writer and full-time advocate, David Wallinga, M.D., represents the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) as a de facto doctor to the nation's ailing food system. Through his work, Dr. Wallinga sheds a spotlight- and a public health lens- on the less savory side of the food system, like mercury in high fructose corn syrup, or arsenic being fed to chickens and turkeys. His 2010 essay on farm policy and the obesity epidemic in Health Affairs helped launch unprecedented interest in the health of the 2012 Farm Bill; subsequently, dozens of the nation's medical and public luminaries have signed onto IATP's Charter for a Healthy Farm Bill . Dr. Wallinga has also served as the only physician on the steering committee of Keep Antibiotics Working : The Campaign to End Antibiotic Overuse since 2000.

More information at http://www.tedxmanhattan.org

The Lens - Homo Toxicus

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Each day, tons of chemicals are released into the environment, but do we really know how toxic they are or what their long-term effect is on living organisms? Some toxins are found in everyday objects or in agricultural pesticides used for food production. And they seem to be finding their way into our homes.

When a Montreal filmmaker has her blood tested she learns that there are 110 contaminants in her body. So she sets off to investigate the connection between those toxic substances and rising health issues in our society, such as cancer, allergies and male infertility.

The film is directed and produced by Carole Poliquin (Productions ISCA, Montreal).

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/thelens/2009/homotoxicus/

Do 2.5 Million Children Really Need Ritalin? An Integrative Approach to ADHD

http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=23045

Dr. Sanford Newmark, explores the importance of the Integrative Approach-seeing the child in the context of family, friends, school and community, rather than as a set of symptoms that need to be fixed. Topics include an overview of the genetic, environmental and neurobiological aspects, non-pharmaceutical therapies including nutrition, food sensitivities, vitamin and mineral supplements, parenting, school, and complementary therapies. Series: "Integrative Medicine Today"

Thalidomide : The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

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Why are 98 of the affected families not allowed compensation?

Source: http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/thalidomide-the-ninety-eight-we-forgot

Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)

Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common. Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes.

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Addiction & Brain Development with Gabor Mate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHiFqXCYKc

For over ten years Gabor Mate has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV, and in many cases all four. But if Dr. Mate's patients are at the end of the spectrum, there are many others among us who are also struggling with addictions. drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, compulsive work habits, sexual seeking or spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our spirits?

Gabor Mate M.D. is the author of the bestselling books Scattered Minds, When the Body Says No and now In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Close Encounters With Addiction
http://www.drgabormate.com/

Dr. Gabor Maté: “When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection”

The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption–that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill patients at the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, where he was the Medical Coordinator for seven years, Dr. Gabor Mate makes the case that there are important links between the mind and the immune system. He found that stress and individual emotional makeup play critical roles in an array of diseases.

When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between emotion, stress, and disease. The book combines a fascinating yet down-to-earth explanation of the scientific research that has demonstrated the mind/body unity with the stories and experiences of actual people. Some of them are famous, like the athlete Lance Armstrong, the comedian Gilda Radner, or the former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Most of them are ordinary people from all walks of life who open up about their lives in a way they had never done before. The end result is a dramatic and compelling account of the interplay between the external and internal environments we inhabit and how these environments affect us in health and illness.

When The Body Says No explains that chronic diseases – including many cancers, multiple sclerosis, scleroderma, fibromyaglia, ALS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Alzheimer’s, and many others – can be viewed as expressions of a particular emotional history. In people whose lives are marked by suppressed emotions and excessive, unacknowledged stress, the body can become confused, even to the point of turning on itself. Drawing on a wide range of scientific research, Dr. Maté illuminates the cross-communications between the body’s emotional, nervous, hormonal, and immune systems, and how breakdowns in this interactive system can have major impacts on our health.

Dr. Maté shows that physical disease cannot be properly understood or addressed without taking into account the emotional context in which it arises. The book demonstrates vividly how our interactions with our environment shape our internal world from an early age, and how that world in turn manifests itself physically in our bodies.

When The Body Says No is written for anyone interested in understanding the links between mind and body, emotions and health, stress and disease. People who suffer from chronic illness will gain a clearer understanding of themselves and their conditions, and with that understanding, new hope for recovery and well-being. Their friends and families will also benefit greatly from Dr. Maté’s compassion and insights.

Health professionals will appreciate Dr. Maté’s synthesis of the latest research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, and his views on the need for a ‘mindbody’ approach to medicine. When The Body Says No will leave them able to listen more powerfully to those they treat, and to better promote health and healing in all their patients.

When The Body Says No will appeal to all readers interested in the most profound issues of health and illness, or in getting a second opinion on the usefulness of the standard Western medical model. Virtually anyone wishing to be present to their own emotional life will gain enriched self-understanding out of reading this book.
http://www.whenthebodysaysno.ca/book.html

The Weight of the World by Glynis Whiting, - NFB

This fascinating documentary looks at obesity. Stockholm’s Dr. Stephan Rossner, an obesity specialist, proves beyond doubt that obesity is a man-made epidemic. Super-sized fast foods and a $12 billion ad industry are proving to be lethal when mixed with a car-dominated culture, urban sprawl and labour-saving technologies. This film was launched by the NFB and the CBC in partnership with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Physical and Health Education Canada.

'GENERATION RX' Extended Trailer

Common Radius Films is a private documentary and media development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Generation RX marks the first film partnership between the company and international award-winning writer/producer/director Kevin P. Miller.

This film explores how children have been caught in the middle of an unprecedented change in Western culture: that of drugging children with psychiatric medications earlier — and more often than ever before.

GENERATION RX has already garnered the support of some of the most respected names in Hollywood, including writer/director Paul Haggis, who won back-to-back Academy Awards for "Million Dollar Baby," and "Crash."

GENERATION RX, Mr. Haggis said, "is a powerful and often chilling eye-opener. Weeks after viewing, the stories continue to haunt me."

Generation RX: A Prescription for Pain on Vimeo

This documentary tells the story four people and their struggles with prescription drug abuse and also of one woman overcoming the death of her mother, who passed away from the disease of addiction from an overdose. This film delves into the characters introduction to the drugs, their downfall from addiction into their rock bottom, while leading into their hope for freedom from active addiction touching on their recovery process.

A Bill Moyers essay on fighting the health care debate.
No More Mr. Nice Guy

BILL MOYERS: The editors of THE ECONOMIST magazine say America's health care debate has become a touch delirious, with people accusing each other of being evil-mongers, dealers in death, and un-American.

Well, that's charitable.

I would say it's more deranged than delirious, and definitely not un-American.

Those crackpots on the right praying for Obama to die and be sent to hell — they're the warp and woof of home-grown nuttiness. So is the creature from the Second Amendment who showed up at the President's rally armed to the teeth. He's certainly one of us. Red, white, and blue kooks are as American as apple pie and conspiracy theories.

Bill Maher asked me on his show last week if America is still a great nation. I should have said it's the greatest show on earth. Forget what you learned in civics about the Founding Fathers — we're the children of Barnum and Bailey, our founding con men. Their freak show was the forerunner of today's talk radio.

Speaking of which: we've posted on our website an essay by the media scholar Henry Giroux. He describes the growing domination of hate radio as one of the crucial elements in a "culture of cruelty" increasingly marked by overt racism, hostility and disdain for others, coupled with a simmering threat of mob violence toward any political figure who believes health care reform is the most vital of safety nets, especially now that the central issue of life and politics is no longer about working to get ahead, but struggling simply to survive.

So here we are, wallowing in our dysfunction. Governed — if you listen to the rabble rousers — by a black nationalist from Kenya smuggled into the United States to kill Sarah Palin's baby. And yes, I could almost buy their belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, only I think he shipped them to Washington, where they've been recycled as lobbyists and trained in the alchemy of money laundering, which turns an old-fashioned bribe into a First Amendment right.

Only in a fantasy capital like Washington could Sunday morning talk shows become the high church of conventional wisdom, with partisan shills treated as holy men whose gospel of prosperity always seems to boil down to lower taxes for the rich.

Poor Obama. He came to town preaching the religion of nice. But every time he bows politely, the harder the Republicans kick him.

No one's ever conquered Washington politics by constantly saying "pretty please" to the guys trying to cut your throat.

Let's get on with it, Mr. President. We're up the proverbial creek with spaghetti as our paddle. This health care thing could have been the crossing of the Delaware, the turning point in the next American Revolution — the moment we put the mercenaries to rout, as General Washington did the Hessians at Trenton. We could have stamped our victory "Made in the USA." We could have said to the world, "Look what we did!" And we could have turned to each other and said, "Thank you."

As it is, we're about to get health care reform that measures human beings only in corporate terms of a cost-benefit analysis. I mean this is topsy-turvy — we should be treating health as a condition, not a commodity.

As we speak, Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, has been fined a record $2.3 billion dollars as a civil and criminal — yes, that's criminal, as in fraud — penalty for promoting prescription drugs with the subtlety of the Russian mafia. It's the fourth time in a decade Pfizer's been called on the carpet. And these are the people into whose tender mercies Congress and the White House would deliver us?

Come on, Mr. President. Show us America is more than a circus or a market. Remind us of our greatness as a democracy. When you speak to Congress next week, just come out and say it. We thought we heard you say during the campaign last year that you want a government run insurance plan alongside private insurance — mostly premium-based, with subsidies for low-and-moderate income people. Open to all individuals and employees who want to join and with everyone free to choose the doctors we want. We thought you said Uncle Sam would sign on as our tough, cost-minded negotiator standing up to the cartel of drug and insurance companies and Wall Street investors whose only interest is a company's share price and profits.

Here's a suggestion, Mr. President: ask Josh Marshall to draft your speech. Josh is the founder of the website talkingpointsmemo.com. He's a journalist and historian, not a politician. He doesn't split things down the middle and call it a victory for the masses. He's offered the simplest and most accurate description yet of a public insurance plan — one that essentially asks people: would you like the option — the voluntary option — of buying into Medicare before you're 65? Check it out, Mr. President.

This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it's life and death. No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President. We need a fighter.

That's it for the Journal. I'm Bill Moyers. See you next time.

Mark Schapiro - The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products

The Ecology Center is very excited to be bringing investigative journalist and author Mark Schapiro to town to keynote our April 10 annual membership meeting on the campus of Washtenaw Community College. Schapiro’s latest book, “Exposed, The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products: Who’s at Risk and What’s at Stake for American Power,” examines many of the seminal issues that drive the Ecology Center’s many campaigns to better regulate and phase out the use of toxic chemicals in this country.

Currently, Schapiro is Editorial Director of The Center for Investigative Reporting, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that recruits, funds and promotes good old-fashioned muckraking journalism by independent reporters and producers. As an investigative journalist, the West Coast-based Schapiro has lived and worked in and out of Europe over the last two decades, writing on environmental and international affairs for Harper’s, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Atlantic Monthly.

In the early 1980s, Schapiro coauthored “Circle of Poison,” which revealed how the U.S. was exporting banned pesticides to developing countries. Twenty-five years later, Schapiro’s “Exposed“ flips that thesis on its head and details how the U.S. is fast becoming a dumping ground for chemicals banned abroad.

His book is an effort to show how American consumers are unwittingly being exposed to chemicals that are prohibited in the European Union because of their health dangers. Toys, electronics, and cosmetics — the very lipsticks, eyeliners and blushers, for example — banned from the shelves of EU stores are now widely available in the United States.

The retreat of the U.S. from a position of world leadership in environmental protection also has dire economic consequences, warns Schapiro. The emergence of the 27-member EU as the world’s largest and most affluent market, combined with their higher standards on toxic chemicals, is pushing the global market toward more sustainable production, while the U.S. continues to fall behind.

What’s so special about the EU and how did they end up the global leader in environmental protection, driving alternative manufacturing practices in China and Korea? And, why does U.S. policy seemingly ignore the data linking the rising rates of cancer, endocrine problems and reproductive disorders to chemical exposure? For answers, you could start by reading our review of “Exposed” in last summer’s newsletter, or by acquiring the book through our e-bookstore. Better yet, come see the author in person and ask him yourself. The answers may surprise you.

The film MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE reveals how a profit-hungry medical-industrial complex has turned health care into a system that squanders millions of dollars on unnecessary tests, unproven and sometimes unwanted procedures and overpriced prescription drugs. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has teamed up with producers Peter Bull, Chris Matonti, and director Andy Fredericks to produce a film based on Maggie Mahar's powerful book MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE.

After covering the health care industry for years as a financial journalist, Mahar wanted to write a book examining the system from the perspective of doctors and patients. The response from the doctors she contacted was overwhelming — five out of six called her back. The film brings their stories to the screen, portraying an industry where corporate profits often get in the way of care.

Ask Maggie Mahar about health care reform
As the JOURNAL continues it's coverage of health care and the debate over reform, we invite you to submit your questions to Maggie Mahar on the blog. We'll get you her answers after the premiere of Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's documentary, MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE, which will be broadcast next Friday, August 28 on the JOURNAL.

Fight back against health insurance lies

What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar.

What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare reform? The treatment she needs to live a normal life.

Brave New Films is launching a major new campaign to reveal the truth about the health insurance industry, and we need your help to do it. Contribute $25 today so we can create more campaigns exposing the obscene wealth of the CEOs of Aetna, CIGNA, Humana and WellPoint and the policyholders theyve abandoned for profit.

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Insurance Industry's Healthcare Reform Dream Pt. 1

Insurance Industry's Healthcare Reform Dream Pt. 2

Insurance Industry's Healthcare Reform Dream Pt. 3

The Republicans have been trying to shape the healthcare debate by claiming that any attempt at providing government-funded healthcare would make America a socialist nation. But the real truth is that they don't want the insurance industry to suffer any financial losses, which would prevent them from funding their campaigns. This is the tragedy of our current, money-drive system, that cares more about profits than about patient care. Air America's Sam Seder talks about this with Maggie Mahar, author of the book "Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much."

Book Description
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care—yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good.
Instead, startling new evidence suggests that one out of every three of our health care dollars is squandered on unnecessary or redundant tests; unproven, sometimes unwanted procedures; and overpriced drugs and devices that, too often, are no better than the less expensive products they have replaced.

How did this happen? In Money-Driven Medicine, Maggie Mahar takes the reader behind the scenes of a $2 trillion industry to witness how billions of dollars are wasted in a Hobbesian marketplace that pits the industry's players against each other. In remarkably candid interviews, doctors, hospital administrators, patients, health care economists, corporate executives, and Wall Street analysts describe a war of "all against all" that can turn physicians, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers, and device makers into blood rivals. Rather than collaborating, doctors and hospitals compete. Rather than sharing knowledge, drugmakers and device makers divide value. Rather than thinking about long-term collective goals, the imperatives of an impatient marketplace force health care providers to focus on short-term fiscal imperatives. And so investments in untested bleeding-edge medical technologies crowd out investments in information technology that might, in the long run, not only reduce errors but contain costs.

In theory, free market competition should tame health care inflation. In fact, Mahar demonstrates, when it comes to medicine, the traditional laws of supply and demand do not apply. Normally, when supply expands, prices fall. But in the health care industry, as the number and variety of drugs, devices, and treatments multiplies, demand rises to absorb the excess, and prices climb. Meanwhile, the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service system reward health care providers for doing more, not less.

In this superbly written book, Mahar shows why doctors must take responsibility for the future of our health care industry. Today, she observes, "physicians have been stripped of their standing as professionals: Insurers address them as vendors ('Dear Health Care Provider'), drugmakers and device makers see them as customers (someone you might take to lunch or a strip club), while . . . consumers (aka patients) are encouraged to see their doctors as overpaid retailers. . . . Before patients can reclaim their rightful place as the center—and indeed as the raison d'être—of our health care system," Mahar suggests, "we must once again empower doctors . . . to practice patient-centered medicine—based not on corporate imperatives, doctors' druthers, or even patients' demands," but on the best scientific research available.

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