“Huma Abedin, wife of the New York mayoral candidate Anthony D. Weiner — will soon relocate from a cramped Washington office to the foundation’s headquarters. They will work on organizing Mrs. Clinton’s packed schedule of paid speeches to trade groups… Read More ›
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Many chronically ill Americans unable to afford food, medicine
– It’s also important for people to be honest with their doctor if they are unable to afford enough food, since that may affect which medications and dosages are best – “The idea of tradeoffs that people might make (between… Read More ›
Brief fever common in kids given influenza, pneumococcal vaccines together
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 6-Jan-2014 – Parents should be made aware that their child might develop a fever following simultaneous influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations – children who received simultaneous influenza and pneumococcal vaccines, about a third (37.6 percent) had a fever… Read More ›
Michael Bloomberg ‘spent $650 million of own money’ as New York mayor
– ” The mayor’s free-spending ways are also being felt in London, where he has been cultivating political leaders and the cultural elite and is expected to spend much of his post-mayoral time “ Outgoing mayor spent vast amounts of personal… Read More ›
New study shows that more than half of consumers will choose a health-care plan that costs too much
– more than 80% of consumers may be unable to make a clear–eyed estimate of their needs and will unknowingly choose a higher cost plan than needed. New research from Columbia Business School warns that consumers will make mistakes totaling… Read More ›
Half of psychiatrists reject private and federal insurance, preferring cash
Contact: Jen Gundersen jeg2034@med.cornell.edu 646-317-7402 Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers warn that just when the need for mental health services is recognized on a national level, access to help is declining at an alarming rate
NY Schools Plan Called Threat to Privacy / Giving student data to a private company for storage
By MARLENE KENNEDY ShareThis ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) – New York’s plan to turn over massive amounts of student data to a private company for online storage violates privacy laws and could expose the information to hacking, a dozen parents… Read More ›
De Blasio ‘Needs To Explain Himself’ Over Cuba Honeymoon, Sandinista Support / Which he is proud of
The story of a Cambridge-raised Sandinista supporter who married a former lesbian and rose through the political ranks to become mayor of America’s largest city Bill De Blasio is a political insider who worked on campaigns of Bill and Hillary… Read More ›
Support rallies for soldier who faces disciplinary hearing for sending classified information from his personal email which could have saved three lives
By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 23:32 EST, 26 October 2013 | UPDATED: 23:34 EST, 26 October 2013 A well-intentioned honest mistake could cost Major Jason Brezler his position as a Marine reservist. Maj Brezler found himself in hot water last … Read More ›
5-fold increase in ADHD medication use in children and adolescents
Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2013—Use of stimulant medications to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents has increased significantly over the past several years. This trend… Read More ›
Top one percent took record 19.3percent of US income last year – the LARGEST share of pre-tax income since 1927
Last year the top 1 per cent of earners in the U.S. accounted for 19.3 per cent of pre-tax income That’s the largest per cent since 1927 The economic disparity between the 1 per cent and everyone else in the… Read More ›
Mystery of flag from iconic 9/11 photo that went missing the night after the attacks and has never been seen again
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:10 EST, 1 September 2013 | UPDATED: 21:57 EST, 1 September 2013 The flag that three weary New York City firefighters hoisted above the wreckage of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001… Read More ›
Quinn campaign tells students: skip school to work for us
By SALLY GOLDENBERG Last Updated: 4:18 AM, August 30, 2013 Posted: 1:03 AM, August 30, 2013 EXCLUSIVE Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign is encouraging her interns to skip the first days of school so they’ll be available for the critical… Read More ›
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
EEV: RE-posted at Request Republished from alternet.org By Bruce E. Levine Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and… Read More ›
California lawmakers urge pension funds to halt Russia investments / $1.4 Billion is invested in Russia
Source: Reuters – Tue, 13 Aug 2013 02:52 AMAuthor: Reuters By Sharon Bernstein Aug 12 (Reuters) – Top Democrats in the California Senate on Monday asked the state’s multibillion-dollar public employee pension funds to refrain from making future investments in… Read More ›
Cyberspy Network
EEV: I can only specualte why Guccifer’s PDF, as well as other major sources of Intel Compromise are so openly exposed. I am counting on this data being obsolete, or ineffective as the whole world has it by now. Why they would release the… Read More ›
Back from the Dead – Resuscitation Expert Says End Is Reversible
Raising the dead may soon become medical reality. According to critical care physician Sam Parnia, modern resuscitation science will soon allow doctors to reanimate people up to 24 hours after their death. At some point, everyone’s heart will stop. For… Read More ›
That’s a bit rich: Only 28 per cent of millionaires think they’re wealthy
A study by UBS found that only 28 per cent of investors with $1-$5 million feel rich Only 60 per cent with $5 million or more think they are wealthy The average annual income in America is $51,500 The rich… Read More ›
Iconic Ground Zero photo was nearly excluded from museum for being too ‘rah-rah’ American
By MELISSA KLEIN Last Updated: 5:47 AM, July 28, 2013 Posted: 12:03 AM, July 28, 2013 This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11… Read More ›
CIA Murder Claims Are Credible, but Too Late / Poisoned a a bioweapons scientist with LSD in 1953 ?
By RYAN ABBOTT WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal judge dismissed claims that the CIA dosed a bioweapons scientist with LSD in 1953, killed him and made it look like a suicide. Eric and Nils Olson say their father, Frank Olson,… Read More ›
TSA to charge passengers $85 for the privilege of keeping their shoes on through airport security checks
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:46 EST, 22 July 2013 | UPDATED: 10:49 EST, 22 July 2013 The TSA has put a price on a security pat down as they are now allowing more people to bypass parts of… Read More ›
Former co-worker claims New York’s $167,000-a-year medical examiner took plane handle as souvenir from 9/11 site as ‘good coffee table conversation’
Barbara Butcher is now Chief of Staff at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but in 2005 she admitted to taking the door handle ‘for a day or two’ before retuning it ‘I would have been fired’: Co-worker Kenneth… Read More ›
New book documents Cold War experiments on kids
By JOANN LOVIGLIO / Associated Press / July 7, 2013 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A half century later, Charlie Dyer still vividly remembers the day he was picked to join the ‘‘Fernald Science Club.’’ It was 1954 and at 14, he had already spent nearly… Read More ›
‘YOU WORTHLESS LITTLE S***’: Photographer blasted as ‘poor, miserable social climber’ by wealthy Chilean couple who kept nanny ‘as slave’ after he requested payment for his work
Email came from Micky Hurley, 35 – a New York socialite from a prominent Chilean families who called the photographer ‘lower class’ By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:31 EST, 21 June 2013 | UPDATED: 23:31 EST, 21 June 2013 … Read More ›
Rich are running out of mansions to buy
Robert Frank CNBC Sotheby’s International Realty – Palm Beach Brokerage There are fewer mansions available in the richest areas of the country, but this mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. is available for a cool $34.9 million. While housing inventory is… Read More ›
Goldman Sachs janitor ‘was fired by drunk boss and had to wade home through flooded streets during Hurricane Sandy’
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:43 EST, 7 June 2013 | UPDATED: 16:43 EST, 7 June 2013 Scene: Mefit Zecevic, a janitor at the Goldman Sachs building, was forced to walk home after Sandy A former janitor who… Read More ›
Bloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’
Published time: April 26, 2013 22:49 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23, 2013 in New York City. (AFP Photo / John Moore) New York City police officials intend to expand the… Read More ›
They talked about girls, credit limits and whether anyone listens to CDs any more: Boston carjack victim breaks silence over harrowing 90 minutes with bomb suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
EEV: Article quote ” Danny’s refusal at giving his full Chinese name is telling of his humility, wary of attracting too much attention “ Chinese entrepreneur known only as Danny recalls night of terror that sparked 9,000-strong manhunt Steve Anderson… Read More ›
The United States charged six politicians with fraud, extortion and conspiracy
Six Politicos Charged With Bribes & Extortion WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) – In a lurid indictment, the United States charged six politicians with fraud, extortion and conspiracy, in the plan to run a Democratic state senator for mayor… Read More ›
Research shows the New York City ban on large-sized drinks may have unintended consequences
Contact: Souri Somphanith onepress@plos.org 415-624-121-7199 Public Library of Science People buy more soda when offered packs of smaller sizes than if buying single large drink Restricting soda servings may induce people to buy more soda than when offered larger sized… Read More ›
Vial containing strain of potentially deadly virus missing from Texas laboratory
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:20 EST, 24 March 2013 | UPDATED: 18:20 EST, 24 March 2013 A small vial containing a potentially harmful strain of virus has gone missing from a Texas laboratory, it was revealed today. The… Read More ›
CIA recording every Facebook Msg, Tweet…
Thursday, 21 March 2013 Just days after the CIA inked a $600-million cloud computing contract with Amazon, chief technology officer Gus Hunt admitted that the agency is trying to amass as much data as it can,… Read More ›
New York town bans unrelated roommates from living together after neighbor complains about man shacking up with his fiancee and two friends
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:16 EST, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 1 March 2013 A town in upstate New York has has banned unrelated roommates from living together, in a move that has outraged some residents who… Read More ›
Omega-3 lipid emulsions markedly protect brain after stroke in mouse study – DHA
Contact: Karin Eskenazi ket2116@columbia.edu 212-342-0508 Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (February 20, 2013) — Triglyceride lipid emulsions rich in an omega-3 fatty acid injected within a few hours of an ischemic stroke can decrease the amount of damaged… Read More ›
Prescription overdose rate reaches epidemic levels in NYC
Contact: Stephanie Berger sb2247@columbia.edu 212-305-4372 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Fatality rate for white males is 3 times higher than for blacks; Deaths from prescription opioids like Oxycontin soared to 7 times the rate of 1990 The rate… Read More ›
World jobless number seen rising to record high: ILO
22 Jan 2013 GENEVA (AFP) Five years after the global financial crisis hit, unemployment numbers continue to soar, with a record 202 million people worldwide expected to be officially jobless this year, the International Labour Organization said Tuesday. Last year saw… Read More ›
Washington police accused of ‘disturbing’ failures to investigate rape : “37% of reports of serious sexual assault and rape were not being followed up on”
Human Rights Watch to publish report that shows some victims experience fresh trauma from police neglect in rape cases Joanna Walters in New York guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 January 2013 06.00 EST The Women’s Law Project said the situation is ‘a… Read More ›
BPA linked to potential adverse effects on heart and kidneys
Contact: Lorinda Klein lorindaann.klein@nyumc.org 212-404-3533 NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine NEW YORK (January 9, 2013) – Exposure to a chemical once used widely in plastic bottles and still found in aluminum cans appears to… Read More ›
NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft
If it weren’t for Apple kit, crime would be down By Neil McAllister in San Francisco Posted in Security, 29th December 2012 06:31 GMT Free whitepaper – Media and Entertainment Goes Digital Major crime is on the rise in New… Read More ›
88th Health Research Report 21 AUG 2010 – Reconstruction
Health Research Report 88th Issue 31 AUG 2010 Compiled By Ralph Turchiano http://www.vit.bz http://www.youtube.com/vhfilm http://www.facebook.com/engineeringevil http://www.engineeringevil.com http://www.healthresearchreport.me Editors Top Five: 1. Women who drink beer more likely to develop psoriasis 2. Pharmaceuticals: A market for producing ‘lemons’ and serious harm… Read More ›
How Michelle Obama is backing fashion queen ‘Ambassador’ Anna Wintour all the way – to Paris, NOT London (despite the fact she speaks little French)
By Sharon Churcher and Nick Pryer PUBLISHED: 20:35 EST, 8 December 2012 | UPDATED: 20:55 EST, 9 December 2012 Anyone doubting the veracity of Washington rumours that Anna Wintour, the famously icy fashion queen of New York City, will … Read More ›
Family of Cold War bioweapons expert say he was drugged with LSD and pushed from window by CIA operatives as part of top-secret program
By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 | UPDATED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 Murdered? Frank Olson was long through to have jumped to his death in 1959, but his sons now say he… Read More ›
Vitamin E effective for ‘silent’ liver disease
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Jennifer Homa jeh9057@nyp.org 212-305-5587 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center NIH-funded, NEJM study is largest ever to look at nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, an obesity-related condition NEW YORK (April 29, 2010) — Vitamin E has… Read More ›
Pesticide chlorpyrifos is linked to childhood developmental delays
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Stephanie Berger sb2247@columbia.edu 212-305-4372 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health March 18, 2010—Exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos—which is banned for use in U.S. households but is still widely used throughout the agricultural industry—is… Read More ›
Russia will send humanitarian aid to New York
Nov 11, 2012 21:58 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti On Monday, the 12th of November, the Russian Emergency Ministry is planning to send two planes with humanitarian aid to New York which was hit by Hurricane Sandy. Two Iliushin-76 planes… Read More ›
Billionaire banned from Nobu after ‘threatening to kill manager because he was denied his favorite table’
Stewart Rahr was upset because another group was seated at ‘his’ table Sent an angry email to the owner of the restaurant and cc’ed celebrities He admits to the argument but denies having threatened the manager By Daily Mail Reporter… Read More ›
FEMA centers in New York closed due to… bad weather
Published: 09 November, 2012, 21:19 Instead of staying open to help displaced victims of the hurricane during the nor’easter that blanketed New York City in snow, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was “closed due to weather” as the storm approached…. Read More ›
New York’s emergency management director fired for sending crews to his OWN house during Superstorm Sandy to remove downed tree
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:09:24 EST, 8 November 2012| UPDATED:12:40 EST, 8 November 2012 Fired: Steven Kuhr, New York’s emergency management director, was accused of abusing his power New York’s emergency management director has been fired by the governor after… Read More ›
Researchers explore new ways to prevent spinal cord damage using a vitamin B3 precursor: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide ( NAD+ )
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Andrew Klein ank2017@med.cornell.edu 212-821-0560 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College Weill Cornell Medical College team receives $2.5 million New York State research grant to undertake laboratory study NEW YORK (November… Read More ›
Medical Examiner keeps thousands of brains for ‘tests’ families call needless
By SUSAN EDELMAN Last Updated: 12:56 PM, October 28, 2012 Posted: 10:30 PM, October 27, 2012 EXCLUSIVE It’s the great brain robbery. The city Medical Examiner’s Office has kept the brains of more than 9,200 deceased New Yorkers — from… Read More ›
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