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Food and Drug Administration

FDA approves 1st drug for Huntington's disease

Federal drug regulators Friday approved a medication to treat a major symptom of Huntington's disease, marking the first time since the disorder was first described in a Long Island family 136 years ago that ...

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Bob not Rob

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Aug 18, 2008
 
How do you know when you have Huntington's disease? At the end of December when the property tax bills arrive you have a coronary.
Aye Carumba

Beijing, China

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Aug 18, 2008
 
Bob not Rob wrote:
How do you know when you have Huntington's disease? At the end of December when the property tax bills arrive you have a coronary.
Symptoms include an infestation of illegal immigrants congregating on the corner of New York Avenue and Depot Road. Local Politicians hold a cure. However, rather than provide the cure, they have promoted the disease.

Weakened by this disease, residents are left with no choice but to provide a cure of their own. The residents cure would annihilate the disease in addition to preventing it from spreading further into political ranks. Residents know what they have to do!
no meds for this

Washington, DC

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Aug 22, 2008
 
A few years ago, executives at the prestigious University of Chicago Medical Center were concerned that an increasing number of patients were arriving at their emergency room with what the executives considered to be non-urgent complaints. The visits were costly to the hospital, and many of the patients, coming from the surrounding South Side neighborhood, were poor and uninsured.
Michelle Obama, an executive at the medical center, launched an innovative program to steer the patients to existing neighborhood clinics to deal with their health needs.
That effort, in time, inspired a broader program the hospital now calls its Urban Health Initiative. To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Shortly after Barack Obama joined the U.S. Senate in 2005, the medical center promoted Michelle Obama to vice president of community and external relations, and more than doubled her salary. She is now on leave from the $317,000-a-year post,
Edward Novak, president of Chicago's Sacred Heart Hospital, declined to discuss the center's initiative in particular but dismissed as "bull" attempts to justify such programs as good for patients. "What they're really saying is,'Don't use our emergency room because it will cost us money, and we don't want the public-aid population,' " Novak said.
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