Stephanie Chafee, RN
This looks good for Rhode Island. Our new first lady, Stephanie Chafee, has been involved in public health for her whole career… PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Stephanie Chafee was Rhode Island’s first AIDS research nurse and co-founded the state’s only clinic providing free health services to the needy. Now, the multimillionaire wife of former U.S. [...]
Even My Insurance is Progressive
I signed up for it years ago because it was affordable (and insurance is mandatory). They’re not hard to deal with when I’ve had to call them. I can’t say I’ll ever love an insurance company, but I like the ad they put up on Pam’s House Blend. Pam is in the hospital recovering from [...]
Another Brothel Raid
And unlike ‘Club Osaka’ in 1990, the police did not throw the women in jail and let the customers go. ProJo has the story here. This use of the new law criminalizing indoor prostitution is not the usual routine of arresting prostitutes until they’re bailed out by their pimp. This kind of operation takes investigation [...]
Disaster in Cambodia
Our sympathies to all the people who have lost family and friends in the crowd stampede disaster in Phnom Penh. (CNN) — A stampede that occurred during a festival near Cambodia’s royal palace in Phnom Penh has killed 339 people, Cambodia’s minister of information, Khieu Kanharith, said Monday. More than 4 million people were attending [...]
Pope Considers Harm Reduction
The Pope’s remarks about condom use are a striking example of the reasoning behind harm reduction. MANILA, Philippines—Some church members in Southeast Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation praised Pope Benedict XVI for saying condom use might be justified in some cases, though Filipino bishops stressed Sunday the church leader still opposes contraceptives. Speaking to a [...]
No Profit in Gossip?
Via Wonkette, news that that National Enquirer is going bankrupt. Maybe it’s my fault. I stopped buying tabloids when they put Jon Benet Ramsey on the cover. Using that poor dead kid’s story as if it was just another celebrity divorce was too much for me. However, I do read it in the checkout line, [...]
Throw it Away
That’s what the FDA says to do if you have Darvon, Darvocet or generic equivalents. I’ve never seen the FDA pull a drug that way. It’s usually ‘ask your doctor’ and it’s months before patients get the message. Darvon causes heart rhythm disturbances at therapeutic levels. Here’s the news report. I see it prescribed for [...]
Stop the Presses!
The blindingly obvious is validated when researchers pull out some statistics… One study by a sociologist at Albany, Kate W. Strully, found that people who lose their jobs are 83 percent more likely to develop stress-induced conditions, such as diabetes, arthritis, or depression. Another paper by an economist at Columbia University, Till von Wachter, looked [...]
Close Call
I was biking down Blackstone Blvd yesterday, enjoying the fine weather and thinking I might see Mike Bryce with his canvasses out painting. Mike paints outdoors and has a radiant sense of color– this is his season. I had the bike lane, but knowing Rhode Island drivers stayed further right in the breakdown lane, on [...]
Insecure About Privacy
Before I went back to school for nursing I worked in photofinishing. I sat in a curtained booth scrolling through rolls of negatives viewing the positive images– this was done for color correction. I saw enough weddings– and cake smushings, to be glad I eloped. People would tell me that no one looks at your [...]
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