From the last few days around the web:
- When The Memories Return – Our Struggle with Forgiveness — UrbanMonk.net
- Are Veterans being given deadly cocktails to treat PTSD? — Alternet –”
A few months after starting a drug regimen combining the antidepressant Paxil, the mood stabilizer Klonopin and a controversial anti-psychotic drug manufactured by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, Seroquel, the Iraq war veteran was “suffering from incontinence, severe depression [and] continuous headaches,” according to his widow, Janette Layne. — Soon he had tremors. ” … [H]is breathing was labored [and] he had developed sleep apnea,” Layne said. — Janette Layne, who served in the National Guard during Operation Iraqi Freedom along with her husband, told the story of his decline last year, at official FDA hearings on new approvals for Seroquel. On the last day of his life, she testified, Eric stayed in the bathroom nearly all night battling acute urinary retention (an inability to urinate). He died while his family slept.”
- Chinese Medicine Demystified Part 1 and Part 2 — from the Healthy Skeptic — “I’m sure you’re at least somewhat familiar with Chinese medicine and acupuncture by now. It’s received a lot of media coverage over the last decade, and insurance companies are now covering it in many states. But even though an increasing number of people are using acupuncture to address their health problems, most still don’t understand how Chinese medicine works.”
- Fish Oil Supplements — Want PCBs With That? — Alternet and look here for info on Fish Oil quality.