Houston We can’t have it both ways. We can’t mourn the more than 1000 deaths in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina and condemn the government for not taking responsibility for the most vulnerable citizens without transportation or facing medical problems, and also say that the government should stand aside from his duty in order to protect …
Tag: public health
India’s Supreme Court Gives Temporary Victory for Key Generic Drugs
New Orleans Thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court in India many desperately ill leukemia patients in Africa and Asia will live, though of course many more will die. The court ruled that that Indian pharmaceutical factories can continue making a generic version of the drug Gleevec made by Novartis. In the developed world …
36000 USA Flu Deaths Every Year
Boston After discussing Citizen Wealth in Harvard Square at the Co-op, I found myself fascinated by a similar maximum eligible participation type of problem while talking to a friend who is a public health nurse with the City of Boston. I asked her a casual question about how work was going and she replied, exasperatingly, …