Author: KJ McElrath

Did the FDA Allow A Faulty Device to Endanger Patients And Skew Study Results?

Did the FDA Allow A Faulty Device to Endanger Patients And Skew Study Results?

Posted by | Feb 5, 2016 | , , |

For some time, there have been serious questions about the ROCKET-AF trial, the clinical study of the anti-coagulant medication Xarelto (rivaroxaban), prescribed for patients at risk for stroke. The study compared the performance of  Xarelto to that of warfarin, the standard treatment for nearly seven decades. Specifically, the medical community has been raising serious concerns about the objectivity and accuracy of the results. At the center of the controversy is a defective blood analysis device, which had been generating tens of thousands of reports over malfunctions – some of which have resulted in serious patient injuries. Questions about ROCKET-AF...

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Wall Street Thugs Apoplectic Over Sanders: Prosecutions Would Be a Reality

Wall Street Thugs Apoplectic Over Sanders: Prosecutions Would Be a Reality

Posted by | Feb 5, 2016 | , , , |

It’s no secret that global investment banking firm Goldman-Sachs represents the cancer that Wall Street and the billionaire class have become on the body politic. That particular firm was one of the primary culprits in the sub-prime mortgage crisis that nearly brought down the world economy. It was one of the big beneficiaries of Uncle Sam’s largess when the company came hat in hand, begging for a bailout and threatening our economic system if it didn’t get its way. Apparently, the fact that Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been speaking out so forcefully again Wall Street greed and corruption...

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Zika Virus: Now a Venereal Disease?

Zika Virus: Now a Venereal Disease?

Posted by | Feb 4, 2016 | , |

Stories about the zika virus are rampant in the news and the World Health Organization has declared it a “public health emergency.” The virus is normally transmitted by a certain species of mosquito. This week however, doctors in Texas have discovered that it may be sexually transmitted as well. The disease-carrying aedes aegypti mosquito is a jungle-dweller by nature, but it also thrives in urban environments. In addition to Zika, the mosquito is also responsible for yellow fever, dengue fever and chikungunya, yet another virus that is spreading across the globe. Until recently, Zika was primarily a tropical disease...

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Woody Guthrie Documents Reveal Donald Trump Learned His Racism at His Daddy’s Knee

Woody Guthrie Documents Reveal Donald Trump Learned His Racism at His Daddy’s Knee

Posted by | Feb 4, 2016 | , , , |

  It might have been Donald Trump that lyricist Oscar Hammerstein III was thinking of when he penned the lyric to “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught” from the musical South Pacific. The driver of the 2016 GOP Clown Car certainly took his father Fred’s lessons to heart in that respect – and it was another songwriter, folk legend Woody Guthrie, who found outrage as well as inspiration when he leased a New York apartment from Trump the Elder in 1950. Like Hammerstein, as well as E.Y. (“Yip”) Harburg, Pete Seeger, Artie Shaw and other white artists of the...

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Turning The Tables: Miami Motorist Pulls Over Officer for Speeding

Turning The Tables: Miami Motorist Pulls Over Officer for Speeding

Posted by | Feb 4, 2016 | , |

There’s an old Yiddish proverb: Velkh iz gute oyf eyns iz gute oyf nokh,which translated, means “What’s good for one is good for the other.” Earlier this week, a motorist in Miami, Florida decided to put that proverb into practice when a police car zipped past her, doing well over 80 miles an hour in a 40 mile per hour zone. The vehicle had neither its emergency nor its siren activated. The motorist, one Claudia Castillo, later said, “The cop passed me so fast my car shook side to side…It scared the daylights out of me. I started speeding...

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