Guest Blog: ‘White House Boy’ tells his story
‘White House Boy’ tells his story By Tony Holt Hernando Today, December 18, 2011 Submitted by Robert Straley Robert Straley, 65, is one of…
‘White House Boy’ tells his story By Tony Holt Hernando Today, December 18, 2011 Submitted by Robert Straley Robert Straley, 65, is one of…
Sacramento’s ‘girl with a hundred scars’ files claim for damages By Marjie Lundstrom, mlundstrom@sacbee.com Sacramento Bee, December 19, 2011 Since the moment she was born…
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About 40 percent of depressed fathers in a survey said they’d spanked kids that age, versus just 13 percent of fathers who weren’t depressed. Most dads also had had recent contact with their child’s doctor – a missed opportunity to get help, authors of the study said.
“The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself.”
— Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine