Even though sometimes we see this sort of stuff in movies, it is always sad to read about in the real world. Dipyrone is a widespread analgesic, antipiretic used in over 100 countries, but it is banned in USA, UK and a few other countries, for the fear of agranulocytosis. This fear has been generated by a couple of works made 50 years ago with serious methodological problems (for example: patients took the drug only once, conclusion for a related drug were extended to dipyrone). There never has been a study to really address this problem with the correct methodology, mostly due to the fact that when this questioning arose, the manufacturers of those drugs had already lost the patent and it would be too costly to perform those studies for such a low cost drug.
There is even an episode in ER where a patient and his parent developed agranulocytosis from using dipyrone!
See also: this
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
Carnaval blues
Brazil celebrates carnaval during this week. Main festivities occur in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. There is also a massive anti-AIDS campaign during this time, mainly concerned with the use of condoms. Tv, radio and paper ads all remind you the use of condoms. I am not against this campaign, or against methods of preventing the spread of AIDS.
But doesn´t anyone else notice that something another message is being massively sent out as well???:
HAVE SEX, everybody else is having... and if it´s with somebody you´ve never seen, even better.....
But doesn´t anyone else notice that something another message is being massively sent out as well???:
HAVE SEX, everybody else is having... and if it´s with somebody you´ve never seen, even better.....
Friday, February 24, 2006
Politically correct
People will criticize bands who make apologia for drugs. In this case I agree with them. Many bands determine the conduct and morality of many young people when they are still susceptible to it. But it seems those same critics will lash out at band for making a plea to make poverty history.
Oh please!
I mean even if debt relief may be not be the best way to do it: we see corrupt leaders in the richest nations, even more in "third" world nations. The money could be diverted by the ruling party for themselves or for investments that only benefit the poor. It might be carried out by people who do not know the country and try to do things maybe with good intentions but that could even end up harmful... (See Mike Resnick's collection of A chronicle of a distant planet 1 2 3).
Somebody has to stand out I say these things should happen, the more so because everybody just tends to become more and more deaf to these kinds of pleas.
Oh please!
I mean even if debt relief may be not be the best way to do it: we see corrupt leaders in the richest nations, even more in "third" world nations. The money could be diverted by the ruling party for themselves or for investments that only benefit the poor. It might be carried out by people who do not know the country and try to do things maybe with good intentions but that could even end up harmful... (See Mike Resnick's collection of A chronicle of a distant planet 1 2 3).
Somebody has to stand out I say these things should happen, the more so because everybody just tends to become more and more deaf to these kinds of pleas.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Mixed feelings on this one:
Google in China
Google's dark side
Is google really keeping track of all your searching habits...?
Should we start using things like: tor or other search engines
Google's dark side
Is google really keeping track of all your searching habits...?
Should we start using things like: tor or other search engines
Abu Ghraib revisited
It seems that things I was talking about seem very up to date...
Can you believe this comment from Rumsfeld:
He lamented that vast media attention about U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq outweighed that given to the discovery of "Saddam Hussein's mass graves."
Of course Saddam Hussein's Mass graves are very serious, and definitely should not exist, but everybody already knows or suspects things like that happened there, or for that matter in any other dictatorial regime. But nobody expects a nation like the U.S. to responsible for the abuses its military comitted in Abu Ghraib. Thus, it deserves the vast media attention it's getting.
"Do what I say but don't do what I do". Is that the message they want to pass on to the world?
Can you believe this comment from Rumsfeld:
He lamented that vast media attention about U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq outweighed that given to the discovery of "Saddam Hussein's mass graves."
Of course Saddam Hussein's Mass graves are very serious, and definitely should not exist, but everybody already knows or suspects things like that happened there, or for that matter in any other dictatorial regime. But nobody expects a nation like the U.S. to responsible for the abuses its military comitted in Abu Ghraib. Thus, it deserves the vast media attention it's getting.
"Do what I say but don't do what I do". Is that the message they want to pass on to the world?
Start over
Decided to retake my blogging experiment. Also got a new mail to be contacted: accendo1984@gmail.com.
So after a few years here I go again.
So after a few years here I go again.
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