Philadelphia....the City of Brotherly Pesticides? Philly...complicit in the most toxic, carcinogenic part of Big Cig? Who knew? Pesticide Action Network exposes Philly's Own FMC Corp., an Under-The-Radar international, locally-based, presence.

For several years in the '80's and '90's, stories raced through communities of people being seduced, drugged, and when they awakened, to their horror, an internal organ, like a kidney, had been removed....

Recently, it has been reported that there is a brisk and bustling business in a country touted as 'the world's largest democracy', where the illicit sale of kidneys has become a kind of cottage industry!

"Wake it! Shake it! Drag it out and break it!" 1/27 Psst! A War! A War to End All Wars 1/30 "Thraxing" the Giants for a Super Bowl 2/2 Hitler Was a Patriot Too!

Federal and state plans for universal health care are blockaded by collusion between legislators, regulators and HMOs. This is the Pennsylvania Story. Co-op health plans like PhilaHealthia throw battering rams at this criminal neglect, by creating genuinely nonprofit alternatives. PhilaHealthia meets January 22 at 7 at the Acupuncture Clinic, 50th & Baltimore, above Firehouse Bikes.

Once it is remembered that Big Insurance is the biggest investment bloc on Wall Street...and that customer's supposed Health Care money may be thereby invested in even the industries that caused one's disease, a lot becomes clear. Rendell works for Wall Street, not public health.

"Wake it! Shake it! Drag it out and break it!" That was Ken Kesey in Sometimes a Great Notion. 1/9 The Queer Kennedys take the stage! Computerized voting? Sound the alarm in Zion!

The New York State Health Department — working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta — has completed an investigation of a 38-year-old male Nassau County resident who recently returned from Pakistan, where he was exposed to avian influenza, or H5N1, also known as bird flu.

..Drag it out and break it!" That was Ken Kesey in Sometimes a Great Notion. Try to find any record of this quote anywhere!

'Rodriguez said her son's life had been a challenge from the start. She divorced Hawkins' father when the boy was 3-years-old, she said, and by 5 he was taking prescription Ritalin and Zoloft. She said she watched, feeling helpless the way a parent can, as raw anger took root inside her son. '

Debate is hot over Senate Bill 226, which would amend the Mental Health Procedures Act of 1976 by adding an article providing for "Assisted Outpatient Treatment". This proposed law would allow for involuntary commitment to outpatient services, sheriff or police authorization to forcibly bring an individual to a physician's office for evaluation, forcible court-ordered medication, regular blood testing to enforce compliance, and a "treatment plan" that is a matter of public court record and submitted to a judge, for any individual deemed "unlikely to 'survive safely' in the community without supervision."