Stuart Hunter , Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based specialist, who daily treats the "epidemic" of patients with hepatitis C, voiced on Tuesday his disappointment with the provincial government for denying coverage for life-saving treatments.
Epidemiologist Dr. John Farley said Pharmacare is wrongly denying patients coverage for antiviral drugs which can cure the disease. About 50,000 people in B.C. have the disease, with an estimated 300 new cases daily.
"Every day in my clinic, we see new cases - I am a little disappointed with the Minister of Health (George Abbott)," Farley said. "If that is not cause for significant concern I don't know what would be. It would be hard-pressed to say we are not dealing with an epidemic." [More]
Longs days and little to show, his reasons don't matter, it shouldn't happen, not if the world were really kind and evolved, but maybe we're not evolving, maybe we're devolving
My dog, the natural scavenger watches the human forage for scraps, while himself well fed and well housed, steps away from a full bowl of kibble and treats.
What kind of society makes it illegal for humans to let a dog be homeless, unfed or otherwise un-cared for, yet finds it acceptable that humans are homeless, hungry and deprived of respect and companionship. A homeless person is somehow fit to remain in the harsh outdoors but the dog will be rescued from his homeless master?
Does this city commit to billions on amateur sport event hosting and turn it's back on the crisis of poverty and neglect endemic in its own population?
excerpt: So life goes on. I feel badly much of the time that I cannot find the energy to join in more with family functions or attending functions. I'd like to plan a night of visiting art galleries, I really would, but if I am lucky enough to find the energy to make a warm meal and actually eat some too, all I want with what's left of my day is to sit, think, play with my pets and water the plants that constitutes my paradise.
Because it doesn't take a lot of energy and because it does take my mind off pain and the general boredom of my cookie cutter sameness days, I like to edit the photographs I take of my small world, often just the flowers on the balcony or my pets.
The shakes, the anxiety, etc....
Why not test and rule out, brain MRIs, a Chagas test?
Bureacrats, when will my Urology Procedure be pushed up next?
2010?
Oh yeah the ORs are now Olympic Housing.
Reminds me of Calgary, Barclay Flakes, the guys on it talking about renting out
part of the studio as prime olympic housing because it was being done everywhere.
Clinton The Aids Slayer! By: Gölök Z.L.F. Buday VIII-21-06 13:00
Yes! Clinton testify at the Aids conference! Where you all ignore Hep-C and other
diseases and forms of death, ah how you, William Jefferson Clinton provided Aids victims in Sudan with a bombing of a their medicine factory! [More]
It was a lovely warm day here today. Warm enough that I felt as normal people do, without a need to heat myself up through artificial needs like a reptile. NO heating pad, no blanket, no grabbing a cat to sit in my lap for warms, no bribing the dog with a few cookies to sit by me and steal some of their bodily warmth. I was free, and it was lovely. I sat and gazed out on my balcony for the longest time without my muscles turning painfully to stone. Hopefully the heat will last.
The Calgary SUn/Canoe.ca --
By CP
OTTAWA -- The Conservative government will soon announce more than $1-billion of funding for uncompensated victims of the tainted-blood scandal.
An internal government communications plan shows Health Minister Tony Clement was scheduled to "announce the framework agreement on Hep C" in Toronto last week. [More]
